Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
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It's the boredom that kills you. You read until you're tired of that. You do crossword puzzles until you're tired of that. This is torture. This is mental torture.
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yet another example of terrorists' cynical and callous disregard for human life. On behalf of the British government, I would like to offer the people of India my support and deepest sympathy.
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A kiss may ruin a human life.
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The basic wisdom of Shambhala is that in this world, as it is, we can find a good and meaningful human life that will also serve others. That is our true richness.
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My definition of what makes a journey wholly or partially horrible is boredom.
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The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions.
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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
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And is it not true that in like manner a leader of the people who, getting control of a docile mob, does not withhold his hand from the shedding of tribal blood, but by the customary unjust accusations brings a citizen into court and assassinates him, blotting out a human life, and with unhallowed tongue and lips that have tasted kindred blood, banishes and slays and hints at the abolition of debts and the partition of lands.
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But these few are the salt of the earth; without them, human life would become a stagnant pool. Not only is it they who introduce good things which did not before exist, it is they who keep the life in those which already existed.
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There is always need of persons not only to discover new truths, and point out when what were once truths are true no longer, but also to commence new practices, and set the example of more enlightened conduct, and better taste and sense in human life.
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You are never tired of painting, because you have to set down not what you know already, but what you have just discovered.
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Many people, especially women, never experience boredom because they have never learned to work properly.
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Human life is inexplicable, and still without meaning: a fool may decide its fate.
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[E]very human life is a reflection of divinity, and... every act of injustice mars and defaces the image of God in man.
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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Now let me say that the next thing we must be concerned about if we are to have peace on earth and good will toward men is the nonviolent affirmation of the sacredness of all human life. Every man is somebody because he is a child of God.
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Human life is a series of compromises, and it is not always easy to achieve in practice what one has found to be true in theory.
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We had a rule in Tibet that anyone proposing a new invention had to guarentee that it was beneficial, or at least harmless, for seven generations of humans before it could be adopted.
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True love is a love of giving, not a love of receiving.
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To me there is nothing so admirable as a passionate love-bond between two human begins. Sam loves Frodo and wants to protect him and Frodo is extremely protective of Sam. So what you have are these two people locked into this journey together. They don't need to explain what they are to each other, they don't need to talk about it; they just are.
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The threat to man does not come in the first instance from the potentially lethal machines and apparatus of technology. The actual threat has already affected man in his essence. The rule of Enframing threatens man with the possibility that it could be denied to him to enter into a more original revealing and hence to experience the call of a more primal truth.
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Want and boredom are indeed the twin poles of human life.
