Paul Gauguin Quotes

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Paul Gauguin

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• Virtue
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• The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Rest

• Through everything I've gone through- and I've been everywhere, at the top of the world, in jail, hung over drunk - I never gave up my dream of winning a gold medal in the Olympics.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Up
  • World
  • Dream

• I read a lot on the subject and had many conversations, and I have come to the conclusion that the Catholic Church is a force for evil.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Church
  • Evil
  • Catholic

• While some misuse their freedom to perpetrate evil, millions respond by feeling compelled to use their freedom to do good.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • Good
  • Freedom
  • Feeling

• The living werewolves have genuine needs and desires, which, though they may oppose ours, are valid. Even if they want to eat humans, you can't really call them evil, any more than mice can call cats evil, or chickens can call humans evil. It's all just a matter of where you're standing.

  

  Ted Naifeh
  • May
  • Want
  • Evil

• As a young athlete, it was first about having fun; then it was about winning.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Fun
  • Winning
  • Athlete

• The mistakes we make when we try to imagine our personal futures are also lawful, regular, and systematic. They, too, have a pattern that tells us about the powers and limits of foresight in much the same way that optical illusions tell us about the powers and limits of eyesight.

  

  Daniel Gilbert
  • Same
  • Mistakes
  • Limits

• The greatest evil is physical pain.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Pain
  • Evil
  • Medical

• Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Beauty
  • Virtue
  • Mask

• Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Evil
  • Door
  • Open

• When are we going to stop making excuses for the terrorists and saying that somebody is making them do it? No, these are simply evil people who want to kill.

  

  Condoleezza Rice
  • People
  • Stop
  • Evil

• A great novel heightens your senses and sensitivity to the complexities of life and of individuals, and prevents you from the self-righteousness that sees morality in fixed cormulas about good and evil.

  

  Azar Nafisi
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it's again not people who are intrinsically evil.

  

  Desmond Tutu
  • People
  • Evil

• I was brought up by two people who just said, Whatever it is you're interested in, go do it. There is no winning or losing. You find out when you do it what the experience is.

  

  Kurt Russell
  • People
  • Up
  • Experience

• Listen - of course money changes everything, but so does sunlight, and so does food: These are powerful but neutral energy sources, neither inherently good nor evil but shaped only by the way we use them.

  

  Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Good
  • Money
  • Energy

• No intelligent man believes that anybody ever willingly errs or willingly does base and evil deeds; they are well aware that all who do base and evil things do them unwillingly.

  

  Protagoras
  • Evil
  • Intelligent

• An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out.

  

  Max Planck
  • Important
  • Die
  • Winning

• Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

  

  Aristotle
  • Right
  • Virtue
  • Rebel

• You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Die
  • Learn
  • Copy

• I wish I could avoid the people who have threatened me. My favorite threat is that I will be thrown in the River Miljacka, which is at most knee-deep, with my feet bound in cement.

  

  Aleksandar Hemon
  • People
  • Wish
  • Deep

• I moved from a mountain with one traffic light to New York City when I was 17, and it was an amazing, eye opening, creative adventure. I would walk through the streets of Manhattan looking up at these huge buildings, amazed that I didn't know a single person in any of them.

  

  Rachel Boston
  • Up
  • Light
  • City

• No individual can ultimately fail. The Divinity which descends into humanity is bound to re-gain its original state.

  

  Nilakanta Sri Ram
  • Humanity
  • Fail
  • Divinity

• Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

  

  Paul Gauguin
  • Evil
  • Winning
  • Virtue