Walter Kaufmann Quotes

The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know?

Walter Kaufmann

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• I'm a little bit awkward on Twitter; like, I'm never really sure what to say.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Never
  • Twitter
  • Awkward

• I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Name
  • Down
  • Chair

• I don't think that any political party should claim Jesus as being a part of a political party.

  

  Vicky Hartzler
  • Think
  • Political
  • Party

• Over the years, humans have managed to incorporate nearly every element, light and weighty, common and obscure, into our daily lives. And given how small atoms are and how many of them there are all around us, it's almost certain that your body has at least brushed against an atom of every single natural element on the periodic table.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Small
  • Light
  • Single

• We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Society
  • Culture
  • Moral

• I think it's important that things are flawed.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Important
  • Think
  • Things

• I never thought of Kim Basinger in terms of age. For me she embodies woman with her subtleties and intricacies. She's sensual and intellectually engaging, elegant with a very strong personal style.

  

  Camilla Belle
  • She
  • Age
  • Strong

• Peruvian food is so simple yet amazingly flavored with their traditional spices.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Food
  • Simple
  • Spices

• I grew up on Bach and Beethoven, and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since I'm constantly doing music, it's difficult to have that quality time to listen to music and do classical stuff.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• If there were Israeli attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities, it makes it certain there would be a reprisal attack against the United States at some point.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • United States
  • Facilities

• The sensation of dying is sweet, sensuous, placid.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • Sweet
  • Dying
  • Sensation

• Over the years, with all the experience, I've become more mature about the subjects I pick. I have a better understanding of what works at the box office. Once the story is finalised, I surrender to the director and follow him. After that, my performances speak for themselves.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Experience
  • Understanding
  • Better

• A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Like

• The best way to get students involved in science and want to follow either science careers or incorporate it in their lives or to achieve science literacy is to expose them to the various jobs in STEM. It's broad from biologists to electricians to nanotechnologists to building fusion engines. It's a wide range of things.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Science
  • Best
  • Building

• I could see myself in a white nurse's uniform, working unnoticed for many years and at last dying, unknown, unmarried and unsung.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Myself
  • Dying
  • Unknown

• My family were very poor. I am one of nine siblings: two girls and seven boys. Only my brother and I play in Europe, and then three more work in Europe, and another plays in Tunisia. This family is a footballing family, but our lives have not always been good.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • Good
  • Work
  • Family

• I only made $200 a week and I had to buy my own bullets.

  

  Jackie Gleason
  • Week
  • My Own
  • Bullets

• With Donald Trump as president and Republicans in control of Congress, our healthcare is under attack.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Control
  • Trump
  • Health care

• One can hope to be like Julie Christie, and with a bit of luck might be able to, but you couldn't hope to be like Rita Hayworth.

  

  Suzy Kendall
  • Hope
  • Like
  • To Be

• The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Good
  • Happiness
  • Beauty

• Jonathan Franzen seems like the grumpiest guy, and he doesn't seem to like much of anything, so I really don't care what he has to say.

  

  Kaui Hart Hemmings
  • Guy

• To solve a marriage problem, you have to talk with each other about it, choosing wisely the time and place. But when accusations and lengthy speeches of defense fill the dialogue, the partners are not talking to each other but past each other. Take care to listen more than you speak. If you still can't agree on a solution, consider asking a third party, without a vested interest, to mediate.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Time
  • Past
  • Party

• The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know?

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • Why
  • Know
  • Problem