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

• 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
  • Wars
  • Sake

• 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

• Belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • World
  • Independent
  • Belief

• As difficult as it can be to find genuine inner calm, it is the key to creating peace in the world as we know it. The world will not change until we do, and there is nothing the world can deliver to us that will give us the peace we crave. Peace comes not from the world, but from God.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • World
  • God
  • Peace

• A second person that's come to my life very recently, and I'm thankful for it, is Marshall Rosenberg, the founder of the Nonviolent Communication Organization. He has all these books about how we can use our language nonviolently to help create peace. He's using a lot of Buddhism too, but he's helping me to think about language.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Thinking
  • Book
  • Helping

• The reason that I'm so fast at what I do is - I'm not saying that I'm getting stories that nobody else has - the difference is that if a tip goes out to five people, and I know that it's a reliable source, I just tweet it out. If you're at a respectable news organization, that would be considered irresponsible.

  

  Mike Cernovich
  • Difference
  • Getting
  • Fast

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

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
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