Essays of Schopenhauer

This is why simplicity has always been looked upon as a token, not only of truth, but also of genius.

However, the public is very much more interested in matter than in form, and it is for this very reason that it is behindhand in any high degree of culture

There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake.

How learned many a man would be if he knew everything that was in his own books!

Heiligengeist Strasse, at Dantzic, on February 22, 1788

Charles Lamb and Izaak Walton

Rien n'est beau que le vrai; le vrai seul est aimable

The best works of great men all come from the time when they had to write either for nothing or for very little pay.