Quotes by Schopenhauer, Arthur

Without books the development of civilization would have been impossib >>

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply >>

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his s >>

Quotations about Genius

Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at >>

His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of in >>

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered -- either by themselve >>

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

Schopenhauer, Arthur