Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

To be alone is the fate of all great minds—a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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• The life ahead can only be glorious if you learn to live in total harmony with the Lord.

  

  Sai Baba
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• One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.

  

  Idries Shah
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  • Time
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• My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to the United States, never had a chance to go to college either and became a clerical worker. But they did nothing but build this country.

  

  Xavier Becerra
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• If I was Sean Connery, I would have been macho.

  

  Patrick Macnee
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• The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one's consciousness is immaterial or that it presided over the birth of the universe.

  

  Sam Harris
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• I'm just a purist. What is important in my life is that I can do something that can influence many people and influence China's development. When I am myself, I am relaxed and happy and have a good result.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I was in prison with the assassins of the former president of Egypt, Anwar Sadat, who was killed in 1981. Those who weren't executed in that case were given life sentences, and two of those were with me in prison.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Life
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• Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Great
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  • Greatness

• Love is a kind of warfare.

  

  Ovid
  • Love
  • Kind
  • For Her

• My dad taught me to kiteboard when I was 13, and around the same time, I happened to just fall into being an extra on a set and fell in love with acting and making movies.

  

  Maika Monroe
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  • Love
  • Dad

• Head coaching options are limited.

  

  Dan Gilbert
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  • Limited

• We love a good, hyped sound, but when it starts to sound insincere, that's when I lose interest. I hope that our music, even if it sounds polished, doesn't sound insincere.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
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  • Hope
  • Interest

• I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Family
  • Mom
  • Emotional

• Acting is what I love to do. I wouldn't trade it for the world. I don't think of it as work. It's really fun for me.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • World
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• There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love. There are simply different ways of doing it.

  

  Man Ray
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• His conduct still right, with his argument wrong.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith

• This is the last time I'm asking you this,Put my name at the top of your lips.This is the last time I'm asking you whyYou break my heart in the blink of an eye, eye, eye.

  

  Taylor Swift
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  • Heart

• For, as blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.

  

  Alexander Pope
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• 'For a long time I used to think that anal sex was how lawyers were conceived.'

  

  Lawyer
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  • Long
  • Sex

• If something were brought about without an antecedent cause, it would be untrue that all things come about through fate. But if it is plausible that all events have an antecedent cause, what ground can be offered for not conceding that all things come about through fate?

  

  Chrysippus
  • Fate

• Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
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  • Bear
  • Required

• Romantic Orientalism was fascinated by the color and excitement of a powerful culture, and nearly always approached its subject with love.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Love
  • Culture
  • Powerful

• It cannot be doubted that theistic belief is a comfort and a solace to those who hold it, and that the loss of it is a very painful loss. It cannot be doubted, at least, by many of us in this generation, who either profess it now, or received it in our childhood and have parted from it since with such searching trouble as only cradle-faiths can cause. We have seen the spring sun shine out of an empty heaven, to light up a soulless earth; we have felt with utter loneliness that the Great Companion is dead.

  

  William Kingdon Clifford
  • Heaven
  • Childhood
  • Spring

• To be alone is the fate of all great minds—a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Fate
  • Evils
  • Great Minds