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 -
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
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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 -
There is a frustration too, that at moments when there's not a coup, when there are not people in the streets, that the country disappears from people's consciousness.
Edwidge Danticat -
Without a conscious life-purpose a man is totally lost, drifting, adapting to events rather than creating events. Without knowing his life-purpose a man lives a weakend, impotent existence, perhaps even becoming even sexually impotent or prone to mechanical and disinterested sex.
David Deida
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In New Mexico, he always awoke a young man, not until he arose and began to shave did he realize that he was growing older. His first consciousness was a sense of the light dry wind blowing in through the windows, with the fragrance of hot sun and sage-brush and sweet clover; a wind that made one's body feel light and one's heart cry 'To-day, to-day,' like a child's.
Willa Cather -
She would not rest until existence was for her a sucked orange. When there was no drop of juice left, then she would fling away the rind and die content.
Elizabeth Goudge -
It's important to be driven and have goals. You want an independent woman who knows what she wants and isn't afraid to go after it. It's attractive to me when a woman is doing what she loves. It makes me want to know more.
Apolo Ohno -
My dad was a dentist but I wasn't a hygienist. I assisted my dad.
Bill Burr -
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