Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

The general history of art and literature shows that the highest achievements of the human mind are, as a rule, not favourably received at first.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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• I want to go down in history.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • History
  • Want
  • Down

• History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • History
  • Victim
  • Both

• If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Real
  • History
  • Practice

• In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Book
  • History
  • Black

• The biggest battles in human history can only ever be seen through the eyes of the bloke on the front line, and that's by definition a very focused view and one that will vary from individual to individual.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • History
  • Eyes
  • View

• If history judges society for how it treats those in need, so markets judge economies by the incentives they provide for private investment, the infrastructure that supports growth, and the burdens placed on job creation.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Job
  • History
  • Society

• I never hated hip-hop. It became the new rock and roll. It became the biggest thing that Africans have ever done in the history of the Americas. Hip-hop put more black Americans on than anything before it. It fed more people. It allowed them to diversify into clothing lines and billion-dollar headphone companies.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • People
  • Done
  • History

• In New York, I get people coming up to me because 'The History Boys' was such a hit on Broadway, and they show the film all the time on cable over there, so people recognise you.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • History
  • Man
  • Prison

• I have one of the worst voices in the history of recorded time.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Time
  • History
  • Worst

• I would also argue... that we are, by inclination and in terms of our history, we are small 'l' liberals, we Canadians.

  

  Dalton McGuinty
  • History
  • Small
  • Liberals

• History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Good
  • Trying

• History is filled with tragic examples of wars that result from diplomatic impasse. Whether in our local communities or in international relations, the skillful use of our communicative capacities to negotiate and resolve differences is the first evidence of human wisdom.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • History
  • Wisdom
  • Differences

• For most of our history, no one dared to tell Americans, 'you don't build that.'

  

  Rand Paul
  • History
  • You
  • Build

• Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • God
  • Remember
  • History

• Throughout history, when societies face tough economic times, we have seen democratic reforms deferred, decreased trust in government, persecution of minority groups, and a general shrinking of the democratic space.

  

  Samantha Power
  • History
  • Space
  • Government

• In all great epochs of history, the existence of standards - that is, the conscious adoption of type-forms - has been the criterion of a polite, well-ordered society; for it is a commonplace that repetition of the same things for the same purpose exercises a settling and civilizing influence on men's minds.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Great
  • Men
  • History

• The big battle at the end of DW isn't drawn from history, but it's influenced by history, certainly.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • History
  • End
  • Battle

• The essence of a religion can be discovered by asking its adherents one question: 'What, to your mind, was the seminal moment in the history of the world?'

  

  Meir Soloveichik
  • World
  • Mind
  • History

• That was the beauty of 'Roseanne' and Roseanne herself. It could go dark; it could do issues.

  

  Laurie Metcalf
  • Dark

• I consider myself just a lovable old man who just loves women. I've reversed 100 percent.

  

  Bobby Riggs
  • Women

• My weight fluctuates between 205 and 220, depending on how much I pay attention to it.

  

  Brad Feld
  • Attention

• The condition of all who are preoccupied is wretched, but most wretched is the condition of those who labor at preoccupations that are not even their own, who regulate their sleep by that of another, their walk by the pace of another, who are under orders in case of the freest things in the world-loving and hating. If these wish to know how short their life is, let them reflect how small a part of it is their own.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Life
  • World
  • Hate

• The general history of art and literature shows that the highest achievements of the human mind are, as a rule, not favourably received at first.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • History
  • Literature
  • Human Mind