Alexander Nehamas Quotes
For Socrates, virtue was nothing but its own pursuit. And only the promise of happiness is happiness itself.
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Never having alone time is real tough on people.
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I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.
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Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.
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We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
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We Belgians love when we can go to L.A. because the city is amazing and the climate is fantastic.
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Trivializing the Holocaust is the last thing I want to do.
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I did model for a little while part-time, but I wasn't a bloody model, and I am definitely not that horrible thing 'model-turned-actress.'
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There is a story which is not being told strongly enough of the Afghan employees of the UN inside the country who are saving hundreds of thousands of lives everyday by their bravery and nobody talks of them.
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I regret all of my books.
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Memories have huge staying power, but like dreams, they thrive in the dark, surviving for decades in the deep waters of our minds like shipwrecks on the sea bed.
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All the dreamers in all the world are dizzy in the noodle.
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It's the weirdest thing. When you go into acting, you expect to be a huge star and to be recognized... It did happen, but not in the way you expect it to... In L.A., I'm just another character actor.
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Serial killing is not about sex at all, but about power and control and revenge on society.
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Loyalty and religion have many meanings, and self-interest is a skilled interpreter.
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It's all right to cry. It's all right to hurt. It's all right to be confused, ... Hope will rebuild landmarks. Hope will outlive the broken hearts. Hope will outlive the disillusioned.
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We see no objects in our universe that could become wormholes as they age.
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It's scary but as an actress it is my job to be vulnerable, so I try to just embrace it and focus on the things I can control.
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One would think America big enough to set aside wilderness preserves for the many of our citizens who seek to escape the incessant crowd, to search for solace in solitude amidst a sanctuary far removed from the banality of beer ads and cigarette commercials.
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Many persons nowadays seem to think that any conclusion must be very scientific if the arguments in favor of it are derived from twitching of frogs' legs (especially if the frogs are decapitated) and that, on the other hand, any doctrine chiefly vouched for by the feelings of human beings (with heads on their shoulders) must be benighted and superstitious.
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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.
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Maybe increasing the aggregate level of happiness in the world is one way to try and hold back the crash.
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For Socrates, virtue was nothing but its own pursuit. And only the promise of happiness is happiness itself.
