Quote #109
Life nowadays goes at a gallop; and the way in which this affects literature is to make it extremely superficial and slovenly.
More from Arthur Schopenhauer
- Life is so short, questionable and evanescent that it is not worth the trouble of major effort.
- Mankind cannot get on without a certain amount of absurdity.
- In the West, where our skin has turned White, we have ceased to recognise our kinship with animals.
- Reason is feminine in nature: it will give only after it has received.
- In every page of David Hume, there is more to be learned than from Hegel's, Herbart's and Schleiermacher's complete philosophical works.
- Religion is the metaphysics of the masses.
- If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
- Talent hits a target no-one else can hit; genius hits targets no-one else can see.