If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.
More Quotes from Arthur Schopenhauer:
For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.Arthur Schopenhauer
The fruits of Christianity were religious wars, butcheries, crusades, inquisitions, extermination of the natives of America and the introduction of African slaves in their place
Arthur Schopenhauer
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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