The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; The Art of Literature

A man who has not enough originality to invent a new title for his book, will be still less able to give it new contents.

working of the passions and the working of intelligence; or else they want us to return to crass atomism, and the like. Hence it frequently happens that the course of science is retrogressive

declares that honor and money are not to be found in the same purse

for every author degenerates as soon as he begins to put pen to paper in any way for the sake of gain.

in many of Jean Paul's romances. As soon as the reader perceives this, let him throw the book away; for time is precious.

For it is only where a man is convinced of the truth and importance of his thoughts, that he feels the enthusiasm necessary for an untiring and assiduous effort to find the clearest, finest, and strongest expression for them,

and it will not be objective unless the words are so set down that they directly force the reader to think precisely the same thing as the author thought when he wrote them. Nor will this result be obtained unless the author has always been careful to remember that thought so far follows the law of gravity that it travels from head to paper much more easily than from paper to head; so that he must assist the latter passage by every means in his power

and it will not be objective unless the words are so set down that they directly force the reader to think precisely the same thing as the author thought when he wrote them.

Nor will this result be obtained unless the author has always been careful to remember that thought so far follows the law of gravity that it travels from head to paper much more easily than from paper to head; so that he must assist the latter passage by every means in his power.

Nor will this result be obtained unless the author has always been careful to remember that thought so far follows the law of gravity that it travels from head to paper much more easily than from paper to head; so that he must assist the latter passage by every means in his power.