Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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• I've been around a long time, and when I was at the top of the hill, I was very ahead of my time! Evidence of that is that my music is still current today - you know, rappers sample it all the time. So, rather than compromise my artistic integrity, I concentrated on movies.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Time
  • Music
  • Long

• If you knew Peggy Sue - then you'd know why I feel blueWithout Peggy - my Peggy Sue.Oh well, I love you gal - yes, I love you Peggy Sue.Peggy Sue, Peggy Sue - oh how my heart yearns for you.Oh Peggy - my Peggy Sue.Oh well, I love you gal - yes, I love you Peggy Sue.

  

  Buddy Holly
  • Heart
  • Why

• My hope is that we continue to do an even better job in terms of our nation's energy policy, so that we may even further reduce our reliance on foreign sources of oil and take better care of our environment in the process.

  

  John M. McHugh
  • May
  • Job
  • Hope

• If all persons with any trace of homosexual history, or those who were predominantly homosexual, were eliminated from the population today, there is no reason for believing that the incidence of the homosexual in the next generation would be materially reduced. The homosexual has been a significant part of human sexual activity since the dawn of history, primarily because it is an expression of capacities that are basic in the human animal.

  

  Alfred Kinsey
  • History
  • Today
  • Animal

• I think I can achieve more outside the political arena.

  

  Chuck Norris
  • Political
  • Arena

• We should demand that Donald release all of his tax returns so that people can see what are the entanglements and the financial relationships that he has with the Russians and other foreign powers.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Russians
  • Donald
  • Tax returns

• My label, my team and I are always looking to get involved with positive things.

  

  Amber Denise Streeter
  • Team
  • Involved
  • Label

• It would be through individual effort, inspired perhaps by reading Nietzsche's books, that the Overman might emerge, not through social or educational engineering.

  

  David E. Cooper
  • Reading
  • Effort
  • Inspired

• I'll never be that trusting again, believing accountants and lawyers have my best interests at heart.

  

  Irene Cara Escalera
  • Interests
  • Lawyers
  • Trusting

• I really started considering myself a writer when I was about seven or eight years old. I wrote stories from my dreams and kept them all in a notebook that I still have.

  

  Jennine Capó Crucet
  • Dreams
  • Writer
  • Considering

• When the enemy attacks you, this means that you are on the right road.

  

  Enver Hoxha
  • Road
  • Enemy
  • Attacks

• That's life for you," said MacDunn. "Someone always waiting for someone who never comes home. Always someone loving some thing more than that thing loves them. And after a while you want to destroy whatever that thing is, so it can't hurt you no more.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Home
  • Hurt
  • Waiting

• I served the famous professors and scholars, and eventually they learned that the Reverend Moon is superior to them. Even Nobel laureate academics who thought they were at the center of knowledge are as nothing in front of me.

  

  Sun Myung Moon
  • Moon
  • Fame
  • Academic

• Stand-up comedy - I love this job, and I gotta tell you, folks - knock wood - it's been working. 'Cause I was one of those kind of people, even when I had a regular job, I couldn't even call in sick right. You know, I was like, 'Hello? Yeah, I can't come in today. I have scurvy.

  

  Carol Leifer
  • People
  • Up
  • Job

• I separated from the Southern Baptists when they adopted the discriminatory attitude towards women, because I believe what Paul taught in Galatians that there is no distinction in God's eyes between men and women, slaves and masters, Jews and non-Jews - everybody is created equally in the eyes of God.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Women
  • Discriminatory
  • Southern Baptists

• Acting for me is not a business, it's about trying to make pieces of art that I believe that I feel proud of. And it's the journey of that.

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • Believe
  • Business
  • Journey

• Open your life wide, and take me in forever. I will never be tired-I will never be noisy when you want to be still...nobody else will see me, but you-but that is enough-I shall not want any more.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Life
  • Want
  • Open

• Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Professors
  • Beetle
  • Foolish Boy