Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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• We're not a nation divided: we're a nation broken, and anything broken can be fixed.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Broken
  • Nation
  • Divided

• To make headway, improve your head.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Make
  • Head
  • Improve

• Are you used to entertaining everyone with your tales of drama and conflict? Do you get attention and feel important every time you complain about how awful this man is? Stop settling for attention for the negative stuff in your life.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• I grew up in a suburb of Ohio, in a small town, and I resonated with that small-town feeling where everybody knows your business.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Up
  • Business
  • Feeling

• America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.

  

  Wayne Grady
  • America
  • Hope
  • Culture

• My job is to create myself a career that I can go to sleep satisfied with what I'm doing.

  

  Kate del Castillo
  • Job
  • Career
  • Myself

• I don't know why people have divided the whole world into two groups, west and east. Education is neither eastern nor western. Education is education and it's the right of every human being.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • People
  • World
  • Why

• In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. It is Shakespeare who invents Freudian Psychology. Freud finds ways of translating it into supposedly analytical vocabulary.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Mind
  • Psychology
  • Map

• I love comfort. Comfort is very key to me because I spend most of my time in very uncomfortable things, so it's all about trainers and flats.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Time
  • Things
  • Comfort

• Female spies typically represented one of two extremes: the seductress who employed her wiles to manipulate men, and the cross-dresser who blended in by impersonating them.

  

  Karen Abbott
  • Men
  • Female
  • Manipulate

• Compared to some of our neighbours, it's not frowned upon to be a mother and work in France.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Work
  • Mother
  • France

• That experience with 'Rent' went by so fast. I was younger. I didn't even really know what opening night was. And now I'm thinking back on the times I went to Broadway as a kid and the excitement I felt... And I'm realizing that I'm actually a part of that, so I'm learning to take it in, 'cause so often I shrug it away.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Thinking
  • Experience
  • Night

• Everyone has a different training style and being a female, sometimes you find you have to get really aggressive. Some people respond really well to aggression, some people don't.

  

  Cara Castronuova
  • People
  • Different
  • Style

• I think I'm happier with that. $rubyometer += 0.3 or so.

  

  Larry Wall

• We underestimate the distance between ourselves and others. Not just inferential distance, but distances of temperament and ability, distances of situation and resource, distances of unspoken knowledge and unnoticed skills and luck, distances of interior landscape.

  

  Eliezer Yudkowsky
  • Knowledge
  • Distance
  • Luck

• Through rationality we shall become awesome, and invent and test systematic methods for making people awesome, and plot to optimize everything in sight, and the more fun we have the more people will want to join us.

  

  Eliezer Yudkowsky
  • People
  • Fun
  • Awesome

• Grow up, brother. Pack your bags, go somewhere you matter. They deserve nothing. They're not Magdalenes. You're just a bum among them. You're looking for the poor man within? Why don't you humble yourself at the feet of the rich for once? Or does your God just love useless people?

  

  Colum McCann
  • People
  • Up
  • God

• No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable without possessing a certain portion of order and stability.

  

  James Madison
  • Long

• Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Patriotism
  • Idiocy
  • Pernicious

• When you're in love, the whole world is Jewish.

  

  Beverly Sills
  • World
  • Whole
  • Whole World

• The French are … the most brilliant and the most dangerous nation of Europe, and the one that is surest to inspire admiration, hatred, terror, or pity, but never indifference.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville

• There is a little gland in the brain in which the soul exercises its functions in a more particular way than in the other parts.

  

  Rene Descartes
  • Soul
  • Way
  • Exercises

• Those watercolourists who work from light to dark know that the darks do the damage.

  

  Bill Luff
  • Light
  • Damage
  • Watercolourists

• The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Men
  • Authority
  • Believing