The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; The Art of Literature

By Arthur Schopenhauer
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Excerpt: "Obscurity and vagueness of expression are at all times and everywhere a very bad sign. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred they arise from vagueness of thought, which, in its turn, is almost always fundamentally discordant, inconsistent, and therefore wrong. When a right thought springs up in the mind it strives after clearness of expression, and it soon attains it, for clear thought easily finds its appropriate expression." --------- Being myself a musician and trained in nada yoga, that is, the yoga of sound, I recently started reading a short book on listening by a French philosopher and aesthetician in the postmodern tradition. The language was so convoluted and chock-full of double negatives, qualifications, obscure language and multiple references, I almost felt like shouting, 'My good man, if you have something insightful to say, kindly say it!'"

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GenrePhilosophy
Length4 hrs
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Publish dateMar 6, 2020
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE.
6ON THINKING FOR ONESELF.
2ON AUTHORSHIP.
7ON CRITICISM.
3ON STYLE.
8ON REPUTATION.
4ON THE STUDY OF LATIN.
9ON GENIUS.
5ON MEN OF LEARNING.

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