Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.

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• My wealth is not a subject I relish discussing.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Wealth
  • Subject
  • Discussing

• 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.

  

  Gary Burton
  • Play
  • Teacher
  • Student

• Everything's funny for God's sake. Everything.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • God
  • Funny
  • Sake

• 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.

  

  Harry Callahan
  • People
  • Subject
  • Photo

• I want the love that cannot help but love; Loving, like God, for very sake of love.

  

  Albert Benjamin Simpson
  • God
  • Help
  • Want

• If I do have some success, I'd like to enjoy it, for heaven's sake! What is the point of having it otherwise?

  

  Leontyne Price
  • Success
  • Heaven
  • Enjoy

• 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.

  

  Linda Blair
  • Mother
  • Idea
  • Devil

• 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.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Culture
  • Aim
  • Sake

• We share this planet with many species. It is our responsibility to protect them, both for their sakes and our own.

  

  Pamela A. Matson
  • Responsibility
  • Share
  • Sake

• 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.

  

  Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi
  • Study
  • Failing
  • Sake

• 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.

  

  Allen Tate
  • Art
  • Poetry
  • Wrong

• For the sake of our security, our economy and our planet, we must have the courage and commitment to change.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Change
  • Courage
  • Commitment

• [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.

  

  Oliver D. Crisp
  • Work
  • Freedom
  • Views

• All great things are done for their own sake.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Great
  • Done
  • Things

• 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.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Higher
  • Sake
  • Plants

• 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.

  

  Heraclitus
  • Opposites
  • Subject
  • Emerges

• All wars are fought for the sake of getting money.

  

  Plato
  • Money
  • Sake
  • Wars

• Instead of buying six things, buy one thing that you really like. Don't keep buying just for the sake of it.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Sake
  • Buying
  • Six

• Grace Kelly writes great songs, sings beautifully, is a world class saxophonist, and is going to be a big big star

  

  Hugh Anthony Cregg III Clover
  • Star
  • Songs
  • Writes

• You show your vulnerability through relationships, and those feelings are your soft spot. You need to have a soft spot.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Relationship
  • Feelings
  • Vulnerability

• What are we doing here? Has something gone wrong?” “Oh no, Ron,” came Fred’s voice, very sarcastically. “No, this is exactly where we wanted to end up.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Up
  • Voice
  • Gone

• Women often focus more on staying friends, which is as important as climbing the mountain.

  

  Arlene Blum
  • Women
  • Friends
  • Climbing

• As Christian feel the changing winds of political climate, the blasts against their values in the media, the exclusion of the Christian faith from educational institutions, they begin to sense the dangers of complacency and of pietistical world flight.

  

  Edmund Clowney
  • Political
  • Faith
  • Christian

• No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Sake
  • Subject
  • Writes