Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.
Quotes to Explore
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My wealth is not a subject I relish discussing.
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I felt like I was a teacher. But nowadays, I am as much a student of his. He writes a lot of what we play.
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Everything's funny for God's sake. Everything.
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It's the subject matter that counts. I'm interested in revealing the subject in a new way to intensify it. A photo is able to capture a moment that people can't always see.
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I want the love that cannot help but love; Loving, like God, for very sake of love.
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If I do have some success, I'd like to enjoy it, for heaven's sake! What is the point of having it otherwise?
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We didn't talk about devil on the set. My mother and I didn't talk about it. Billy Friedkin and I didn't talk about it. It was a closet subject. But it was the best thing that happened because I had no idea what I was going.
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Culture is the one thing that we cannot deliberately aim at. It is the product of a variety of more or less harmonious activities, each pursued for its own sake.
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We share this planet with many species. It is our responsibility to protect them, both for their sakes and our own.
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The pursuit of illusion is not about studying for prizes, or for study's sake. There's no right or wrong, no pass or fail.
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There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.
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For the sake of our security, our economy and our planet, we must have the courage and commitment to change.
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[John] Calvin is revered as a thinker of immense importance in Reformed thought, Jonathan Edwards could say in his preface to his treatise on Freedom of the Will that he had derived none of his views from the work of Calvin, though he was willing to be called a "Calvinist" for the sake of convention.
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All great things are done for their own sake.
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As plants take hold, not for the sake of staying, but only that they may climb higher, so it is with men. By every part of our nature we clasp things above us, one after another, not for the sake of remaining where we take hold, but that we may go higher.
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All things are in flux; the flux is subject to a unifying measure or rational principle. This principle (logos, the hidden harmony behind all change) bound opposites together in a unified tension, which is like that of a lyre, where a stable harmonious sound emerges from the tension of the opposing forces that arise from the bow bound together by the string.
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All wars are fought for the sake of getting money.
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Instead of buying six things, buy one thing that you really like. Don't keep buying just for the sake of it.
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I want to break into the acting industry. It's something I have a great deal of respect for; it's a passion of mine. It's so amazing, the differences between acting and being an athlete, but the one commonality is they both evoke emotion in the viewer. And those emotions are real. So I think that's pretty cool.
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Ikhlaas is to forget the vision of creation by constantly looking at the Creator.
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If haters or whatever want to find you - I mean, some of them are so tenacious. You want to hire them to work for you. They're very, very savvy in terms of how they find you and get to you.
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Radio is just a fashion contrivance that will soon die out. It is obvious that there never will be invented a proper receiver!
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I, more or less, love camping out, so I dug it, but I didn't enjoy other people's pain.
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No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.
