4 Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes on Cognition

Arthur Schopenhauer quotes on cognition

31. Die Erinnerung wirkt wie das Sammlungsglas in der Camera obscura: Sie zieht alles zusammen und bringt dadurch ein viel schoneres Bild hervor, als sein Original ist.

78. Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but also a disruption of thought.

87. In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.

125. Should you ever intend to dull the wits of a young man and to incapacitate his brains for any kind of thought whatever, then you cannot do better than to give him Hegel to read. For these monstrous accumulations of words that annul and contradict one another drive the mind into tormenting itself with vain attempts to think anything whatever in connection with them, until finally it collapses from sheer exhaustion. Thus any ability to think is so thoroughly destroyed that the young man will ultimately mistake empty and hollow verbiage for real thought. A guardian fearing that his ward might become too intelligent for his schemes might prevent this misfortune by innocently suggesting the reading of Hegel.