Daniel Louzada

“there are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion; and what remains but to take it ready-made from others, instead of forming opinions for himself?”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, The Art of Always Being Right

“Pessoas comuns, ao contrário, têm profundo respeito por especialistas de qualquer tipo. Elas não sabem que aqueles que fazem de um assunto sua profissão não amam o assunto, mas os seus ganhos.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Die Kunst, Recht Zu Behalten

“Therefore I beg you, reader, not to rejoice too greatly if you have read much, but if you have understood much. Nor that you have understood much, but that you have been able to retain it. Otherwise it is of little profit either to read or to understand.”
― Hugh of Saint Victor, The Didascalicon of Hugh of Saint Victor: A Medieval Guide to the Arts

“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms