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Arthur Schopenhauer
(22 Feb 1788 - 21 Sep 1860)
German philosopher.
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Science Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer (3)
Empirical sciences prosecuted purely for their own sake, and without philosophic tendency are like a face without eyes.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
The World as Will and Idea translated by Richard Burdon Haldane Haldane, John Kemp (3rd. Ed.,1888), Vol. 2, 318-319.
The alchemists in their search for gold discovered other things [of greater value].
— Arthur Schopenhauer
With the phrase 'of greater value' in James Wood, Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources (1893), 415. The more specific description '—gunpowder, china, medicines, the laws of nature' is given for 'of greater value' in Counsels and Maxims: Being the Second Part of Arthur Schopenhauer's Aphorismen Zur Lebensweisheit translated by Thomas Bailey Saunders (2nd Ed., 1890), 16.
See also: | Alchemist (2) | Discovery (166) | Gold (10) | Gunpowder (6) | Law (134) | Medicine (127) | Nature (243) | Search (10)
The faculty for remembering is not diminished in proportion to what one has learnt, just as little as the number of moulds in which you cast sand lessens its capacity for being cast in new moulds.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Religion: a Dialogue, and Other Essays (1890), 99.
See also: | Capacity (5) | Diminish (3) | Faculty (5) | Learn (11) | Memory (15) | Mould (5) | Number (45) | Proportion (6) | Remember (6) | Sand (4)
