/lit/ - Literature

>The man who thinks for himself, forms his own opinions and learns the authorities for them only later on, when they serve but to strengthen his belief in them and in himself. But the book-philosopher starts from the authorities. He reads other people's books, collects their opinions, and so forms a whole for himself, which resembles an automaton made up of anything but flesh and blood. Contrarily, he who thinks for himself creates a work like a living man as made by Nature. For the work comes into being as a man does; the thinking mind is impregnated from without, and it then forms and bears its child.

>In learning a language, the chief difficulty consists in making acquaintance with every idea which it expresses, even though it should use words for which there in no exact equivalent in the mother tongue; and this often happens. In learning a new language a man has, as it were, to mark out in his mind the boundaries of quite new spheres of ideas, with the result that spheres of ideas arise where none were before. Thus he not only learns words, he gains ideas too.

>To be entirely ignorant of the Latin language is like being in a fine country on a misty day. The horizon is extremely limited. Nothing can be seen clearly except that which is quite close; a few steps beyond, everything is buried in obscurity. But the Latinist has a wide view, embracing modern times, the Middle Age and Antiquity; and his mental horizon is still further enlarged if he studies Greek or even Sanscrit.

>If a man knows no Latin, he belongs to the vulgar, even though he be a great virtuoso on the electrical machine and have the base of hydrofluoric acid in his crucible.

schopie never misses

>excuse me sir, I couldn't hear you over the moans of these actresses

>>15365961
I'm >>15365737 and it was by your use of "fellas" and a pro woman quote. Either way, I'm glad the message of Schopy is spreading. Fret not, you have seen your shadow; now overwhelm it with light.

>>15149403
>Why, yes, I plowed through actresses during the flower of my youth and still wrote The World as Will and Representation at 30

>>15101779
Cope roastie. Schopy was pumpin and dumpin actresses left and right and would've never even looked at you

>>14526033
cope

>The nobler and more perfect a thing is, the later and slower it is in arriving at maturity. A man reaches the maturity of his reasoning powers and mental faculties hardly before the age of twenty-eight; a woman at eighteen

why is this light soul branded as a downer

Is On the Fourfold Root of Sufficient Reason a good place to start with Schopy?