To turn men into machines. Man must learn to be bored. By means of the concept of duty. The error of false causality. All truth is simple.
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
I mistrust all systematizers and I avoid them. The will to a system is a lack of integrity. I want, once and for all, not to know many things. Wisdom sets limits to knowledge too. I am now concerned with something very comprehensible, namely, explaining how all of us, through Schopenhauer, can educate ourselves against our times-because we have the advantage of really knowing these times through him.