Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

As the strata of the earth preserve in succession the living creatures of past epochs, so the shelves of libraries preserve in succession the errors of the past and their expositions, which like the former were very lively and made a great commotion in their own age but now stand petrified and stiff in a place where only the literary palaeontologist regards them.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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• I began taking pictures in the natural world to be able to show people what I was experiencing when I climbed and explored in Yosemite in the High Sierra.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • People
  • World
  • High

• The problem with some of our noisier exponents of 'American exceptionalism' is that they lack Reagan's moral maturity.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • American
  • Problem
  • Moral

• I enjoy them both [singing and acting] a great deal. I have a passion for both. Maybe acting just a little bit more because it's more of a challenge for me, while music comes so easily.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Great
  • Music
  • Passion

• Be cool and you'll be alright. That's rock & roll religion.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Cool
  • Rock
  • Rocks

• I think it's very easy to get caught up and think that how many hits you get in a magazine because you were seen out somewhere has anything to do with a director's opinion of you, and whether they could use you or not.

  

  Lisa Kudrow
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  • I Think

• Pandemic influenza is by nature an international issue; it requires an international solution.

  

  Margaret Chan
  • Nature
  • Solution
  • Pandemic

• I love when a director shows up with a lot of energy, and different ideas about how to change things and do it a different way. Once you get into series, sometimes you don't have that, so I certainly don't take that for granted when I get it.

  

  Bailey Chase
  • Up
  • Different
  • Energy

• It's certainly a major thoroughfare across the United States, and to have it disrupted is not good news for commerce.

  

  Frank Keating
  • United States
  • News
  • Commerce

• To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Art
  • Medicine
  • Supreme

• The whole life of the philosopher is a preparation for death.

  

  Plato
  • Life
  • Death
  • Philosopher

• I am fascinated by quantum physics.

  

  Vinny Guadagnino
  • Physics
  • Fascinated
  • Quantum

• The cause of all human evils is the not being able to apply general principles to special cases.

  

  Epictetus
  • Principles
  • Cause
  • Human Evils

• Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Great
  • Matter
  • State Of Mind

• He who knows not how to plant his will in things at least endows them with some meaning: that is to say, he believes that a will is already present in them (A principle of faith.)

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Plant
  • Meaning
  • Believes

• Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. Look at the sunny side of everything & and make your optimisom come true. Think only of the best, work only for the best. Forget the mistakes of the past & press on the greater achievements of the future. Give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to critize others. Live in the faith that the whole world is on your side as long as you are true to the best that is in you.

  

  Christian D. Larson
  • Strong
  • Faith
  • Yourself

• He made the earth first and peopled it with dumb creatures, and then He created man to be His overseer on the earth and to hold suzerainty over the earth and the animals on it in His name, not to hold for himself and his descendants inviolable title forever, generation after generation, to the oblongs and squares of the earth, but to hold the earth mutual and intact in the communal anonymity of brotherhood, and all the fee He asked was pity and humility and sufferance and endurance and the sweat of has face for bread.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Generation
  • Animals
  • Creatures

• As the strata of the earth preserve in succession the living creatures of past epochs, so the shelves of libraries preserve in succession the errors of the past and their expositions, which like the former were very lively and made a great commotion in their own age but now stand petrified and stiff in a place where only the literary palaeontologist regards them.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
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