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Arthur Schopenhauer

German philosopher

1788–1860

18 quotes, most often on Writing, Genius and Patriotism.

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.
“On Style”, The Art of Literature (trans. T. Bailey Saunders)
- Talking
- Writing
Writers may be classified as meteors, planets, and fixed stars.
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), vol. 2, trans. R. J. Hollingdale in Essays and Aphorisms (1970)
- Writing
Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes.
“On Authorship and Style”, Parerga and Paralipomena (1851)
- Truth & Lies
- Writing

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