Alexander Nehamas Quotes
For Socrates, virtue was nothing but its own pursuit. And only the promise of happiness is happiness itself.Alexander Nehamas
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I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.
Abdullah II of Jordan -
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.
Nagarjuna -
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.
Orson Welles -
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
We Belgians love when we can go to L.A. because the city is amazing and the climate is fantastic.
Raf Simons -
Trivializing the Holocaust is the last thing I want to do.
Hans Haacke
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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.'
Tamsin Egerton -
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.
Lakhdar Brahimi -
I regret all of my books.
Zora Neale Hurston -
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.
J. G. Ballard -
All the dreamers in all the world are dizzy in the noodle.
Edie Adams -
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.
Dan Castellaneta
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Serial killing is not about sex at all, but about power and control and revenge on society.
Pat Brown -
Loyalty and religion have many meanings, and self-interest is a skilled interpreter.
John Buchan -
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.
Alan Cox -
We see no objects in our universe that could become wormholes as they age.
Kip Thorne -
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.
Frank Church -
John Wesley quaintly observed that the road to heaven is a narrow path, not intended for wheels, and that to ride in a coach here and to go to heaven hereafter, was a happiness too much for man.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Freedom of teaching and of opinion in book or press is the foundation for the sound and natural development of any people.
Albert Einstein -
Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those who have leisure.
Aristotle -
My heart is set, as firmly as ever heart of man was set on woman. I have no thought, no view, no hope, in life beyond her; and if you oppose me in this great stake, you take my peace and happiness in your hands, and cast them to the wind.
Charles Dickens -
I say that virtue is really all about enjoying yourself, living fully; but of course it is far from obvious what living fully actually means.
Terry Eagleton -
I see drawings and pictures in the poorest huts, in the dirtiest corner. And my mind is drawn toward these things by an irresistible force.
Vincent Van Gogh -
For Socrates, virtue was nothing but its own pursuit. And only the promise of happiness is happiness itself.
Alexander Nehamas