Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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• I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they're looting, if you see a white family it says they're looking for food.

  

  Kanye West
  • Family
  • Black
  • Hate

• Christianity is a battle not a dream.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Dream
  • Battle
  • Christianity

• Developing nations want to become developed nations.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Want
  • Become
  • Nations

• I had experiences or exposure to music in church. I went to a church, it was very unique. It was a predominantly African American Catholic church. So they would have - one mass would be traditional church music, and then the other mass would be gospel music.

  

  Aaron Diehl
  • Music
  • American
  • Church

• The problem is, is that President Bush and the Republican leadership in the Congress have resisted attempts to increase dramatically our fuel economy standards over the last five years.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Problem
  • Leadership
  • Economy

• Thus, in general, in the first instance, the direction of interest in empirical fact will be canalised by the logical structure of the theoretical system.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • First
  • Will
  • Direction

• It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn't they see it? It still puzzles me.

  

  Frances Farmer
  • People
  • God
  • Why

• I'm really an outdoorsy girl. People think I can't go anywhere without getting all primped up, but I love to go camping, and I'm totally fine with not doing my hair or makeup, not taking a shower and just hiking.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • People
  • Up
  • Girl

• I tried working odd jobs that had nothing to do with creating, and it was difficult for me. In the end, I just always loved movies. When I'm making a film, I feel most alive, like I'm doing the right thing, and I'm in the place where I need to be.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • End
  • Doing The Right Thing

• When you think of the exponential speed and scale of expansion of social media or a service, you have to believe that it is equally possible to rapidly transform the lives of those who have long stood on the margins of hope.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Hope

• I've done drives through Budapest and Oslo and used to drive to Sardinia, too, which is quite a journey. Drives are an adventure because I don't plan them too carefully. I take detours depending on how I feel and usually stop and stay at places I like the look of.

  

  Rick Astley
  • Done
  • Stop
  • Like

• Are you happy when you stick a needle in your vein?

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Happy
  • Stick
  • Needle

• The American spirit is stronger than stone and mortar, tougher than steel and glass, and more enduring than any pain or suffering that can be inflicted on our national conscience.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • American
  • Pain
  • Suffering

• We can and must ensure the human rights of the displaced. That begins by making their voices heard.

  

  Queen Noor of Jordan

• Trust is that there should be no difference between what you do and say and what you think.

  

  Umar
  • Thinking
  • Trust
  • Differences

• Christ subjected himself to the law of the seed in the earth, to the law of rest and growth. He was "one of the children of the year," growing through rest, secret in his mothers womb, receiving the warmth of the sun through her, living the life of dependence, helplessness, littleness, darkness, and silence which, by a mystery of the Eternal Law, is the life of natural growth.

  

  Caryll Houselander
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Faith

• Ask yourself always: am I harmoniously put together, am I appropriately clad for the deed at hand, and am I free of non-essentials?

  

  Edna Woolman Chase
  • Free
  • Hand
  • Ask

• The Supreme Court has made God unconstitutional.

  

  Sam Ervin
  • God
  • Supreme Court
  • Unconstitutional

• Big dishes and big spoons are big trouble. As the size of our dishes increases, so does the amount we scoop onto them. They cause us to serve ourselves more because they make the food look so small.

  

  Brian Wansink
  • Big Dishes
  • Big Spoons
  • Big trouble

• Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Darkness
  • Religions
  • Fireflies