Arthur Schopenhauer on Writing
Browse 4 quotations attributed to Arthur Schopenhauer, catalogued under writing, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Arthur Schopenhauer, entry #62909: "The word of man is the most durable of all material."
Attributed to Arthur Schopenhauer, entry #106698: "The chief objection I have to Pantheism is that it says nothing. To call the world "God" is not to explain it; it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym for the…"
4 Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer on Writing
"The word of man is the most durable of all material."
"The chief objection I have to Pantheism is that it says nothing. To call the world "God" is not to explain it; it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym for the word "world."
"For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible."
"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. The first kind have had thoughts or experiences which seem to them worth communicating, while the second kind need money and consequently write for money."