Date: February, 1821
"I said to myself, 'This is true eloquence: this is a man pouring out his mind on paper.'"
preview | full record— Hazlitt, William (1778-1830)
Date: 1851
When we read, another person thinks for us: we merely repeat his mental process. It is the same as the pupil, in learning to write, following with his pen the lines that have been pencilled by the teacher."
preview | full record— Schopenhauer, Arthur (1788-1860)
Date: 1851
"For the more one reads the fewer are the traces left of what one has read; the mind is like a tablet that has been written over and over."
preview | full record— Schopenhauer, Arthur (1788-1860)