Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
Consciousness makes the individual careful to maintain his own existence; and if this were not so, there would be no surety for the preservation of the species. From all this it is clear that individuality is not a form of perfection, but rather a limitation; and so to be freed from it is not loss but gain.Arthur Schopenhauer
Quotes to Explore
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Sexual relations, of course, have existed, exist, and will exist. However, this is in no way connected with the indispensability of the existence of the family.
Ferdinand Mount -
My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.
Karl Kraus -
To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.
Adam Clarke -
I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.
Man Ray -
To the socialist no nation is free whose national existence is based upon the enslavement of another people, for to him colonial peoples, too, are peoples, and, as such, parts of the national state.
Karl Liebknecht -
From wonder into wonder existence opens.
Lao Tzu
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There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
Carl Jung -
I've led a very isolated existence since I was 6 years old. It's kind of been me and my mind.
Macaulay Culkin -
His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
I'm reluctantly interested in love and helplessly interested in logic and yet they're so conflicting. And they're both necessary for a happy balance, a happy existence... I think.
Laura Marling -
Maybe all people with minds like Isaac's were the same. She knew he would make a much larger contribution than she ever would - he cared only about things much bigger than his own life. Ideas, truths, the reasons things were. As if he himself, his own existence, was somehow incidental.
Philipp Meyer -
[in the true mad north] of introspection, where 'falcons of the inner eye' dive and die, glimpsing in their dying fall, all life's memory of existence.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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The most mysterious feminine factor, the existence that we men, we don't know. It's woman. It's feminine. That's what the sword is about. That's the symbolic meaning of the sword.
Ang Lee -
The miracle of your existence calls for celebration every day.
Oprah Winfrey -
The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is incarnation. Here the impossible union of spheres of existence is actual. Here the past and future are conquered and reconciled.
T. S. Eliot -
Attaining consciousness is connected with the gradual liberation from mechanicalness, for man is fully and completely under mechanical laws.
Pyotr Ouspensky -
Giving and receiving love is vital to human existence. It is the glue that binds couples, families, communities, cultures, and nations.
G. Frank Lawlis -
Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way.
Kingsley Amis
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Those... who find delight in freedom from attachment in the renunciation of clinging, free from the inflow of thoughts, they are like shining lights, having reached final liberation in the world.
Gautama Buddha -
I am as passionate about the England team as anyone.
Wayne Rooney -
To have people from every continent who are working on philanthropy, on social entrepreneurship, gives me a unique opportunity to engage.
Darren Walker -
Consciousness makes the individual careful to maintain his own existence; and if this were not so, there would be no surety for the preservation of the species. From all this it is clear that individuality is not a form of perfection, but rather a limitation; and so to be freed from it is not loss but gain.
Arthur Schopenhauer