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Reason is feminine in nature; it can only give after it has received. Of itself it has nothing but the empty forms of its operation.

A reproach can only hurt if it hits the mark. Whoever knows that he does not deserve a reproach can treat it with contempt.

Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts.

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

Just as one spoils the stomach by overfeeding and thereby impairs the whole body, so can one overload and choke the mind by giving it too much nourishment. For the more one reads the fewer are the traces left of what one has read; the mind is like a tablet that has been written over and over. Hence it is impossible to reflect; and it is only by reflection that one can assimilate what one has read. If one reads straight ahead without pondering over it later, what has been read does not take root, but is for the most part lost.

Arthur Schopenhauer