"He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at..." - Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer
He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.
More by Arthur Schopenhauer
“There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.”
“Genius is its own reward; for the best that one is, one must necessarily be for oneself. . . . Further, genius consists in the working of the free intellect., and as a consequence the productions of genius serve no useful purpose. The work of genius may be music, philosophy, painting, or poetry; it is nothing for use or profit. To be useless and unprofitable is one of the characteristics of genius; it is their patent of nobility.”
“It is a curious fact that in bad days we can very vividly recall the good time that is now no more; but that in good days, we have only a very cold and imperfect memory of the bad.”
More on Writing
“I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.”
“For whatever crispness and animation my writing has I give some credit to the cartoonist manque.”
“I am trying to make, before I get through, a picture of the whole world--or as much of it as I have seen. Boiling it down always, rather than spreading it out too thin. (On Writing.)”
More on Thought
“The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.”
“If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.”
“There is nothing more shocking than to see assertion and approval dashing ahead of cognition and perception.”