Walter Kaufmann Quotes

It does not follow that the meaning must be given from above; that life and suffering must come neatly labeled; that nothing is worth while if the world is not governed by a purpose.

Walter Kaufmann

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• I made a name for myself as someone who is determined to swim against the stream if it's dirty.

  

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• To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.

  

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• You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.

  

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• I was the first one in my family to go away to college. I came from a small town where there was no guidance in the high school at all. It was a mill town, and I never knew anyone who made their living from the arts. When you did go away to college, you went away to be something - an engineer, or a teacher, or a chemist.

  

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• Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

  

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• I am trying my best to strike a balance. How many hours a day can I work? I work for 12-15 hours a day; it gets very strenuous. I balance between Telugu, Tamil, and Hindi.

  

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• A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.

  

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• One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.

  

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• I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.

  

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• I could do a franchise for the end of everything. 'The End of Dogs,' 'The End of Cats.'

  

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• I enjoy personal injury cases. I've tried quite a few of those. And, frankly, any kind of litigation that is trouble-shooting, whether it's equities, suits and injunctions, or whatever.

  

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• I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.

  

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• Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.

  

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• A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

  

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• Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.

  

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• Getting sequestered and not really knowing what to do with your time and then discovering, 'Oh, I can watch a bunch of horror movies' has probably played out in a lot of people's discovery of horror.

  

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• Return to a simpler life, and you will see that behind the expensive cars, the fashionable clothes, the empty celebrities, the fancy houses and the thick layers of make-up life has real meaning. Behind all the lies there is a deep well of wisdom that we can all drink from, and grow wiser, healthier and happier.

  

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• The purpose of existence is the education of the will. And the meaning of life is to learn to love the right things.

  

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• I need to be bad. I don't want to burn out. I also don't want to be a person who is always performance-oriented. I also want to have some fun.

  

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• It does not follow that the meaning must be given from above; that life and suffering must come neatly labeled; that nothing is worth while if the world is not governed by a purpose.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • Life
  • World
  • Purpose