Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is generally adopted.

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• Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Life
  • Work
  • Important

• It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Know
  • First
  • Boring

• I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Think
  • Brother
  • Think Big

• One rare and exceptional deed is worth far more than a thousand commonplace ones.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • More
  • Far
  • Rare

• I know people who prepare their roles in such a way that they technically look ahead and memorize their gestures, and then they stick to it. Those that are technically proficient enough can make it seem natural, but they do that and don't really take in what other people are doing.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Know
  • Doing

• That's the funniest thing about portraying certain things on screen, sitting next to your parents and they get to see this glimpse of me kissing another guy.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Parents
  • See
  • Kissing

• Out-of-step intellectuals like Noam Chomsky and the deceased Edward Said have often been dismissed as crazy extremists, 'anti-American,' and in Mr. Said's case even, absurdly, as apologists for Palestinian 'terrorism.'

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • American
  • Crazy
  • Said

• Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class distinctions. They weren't as pronounced, but they quickly evolved as well.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Time
  • Country
  • Young

• When all is said and done the only thing you'll have left is your character.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Done
  • Character
  • Said

• Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Experience
  • Paradox
  • Beyond

• Marriage isn't always cupcakes and Jesus juice, but it's important to show each other your marriage is a priority and that you still love them.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Love
  • Marriage
  • For Her

• It's like there's this boldness that I have where I'm driven by something that I can't name.

  

  K. Flay
  • Like
  • Name
  • Driven

• The way to build billion dollar companies is to first build something people love. There isn't really a shortcut there.

  

  Sam Altman
  • People
  • Way
  • Build

• The biggest challenge in New Orleans has been to find workers who can climb a ladder after lunch.

  

  Harry Anderson
  • Challenge
  • Lunch
  • Climb

• To the Muslim woman, the hijab provides a sense of empowerment. It is a personal decision to dress modestly according to the command of a genderless Creator; to assert pride in self, and embrace one's faith openly, with independence and courageous conviction.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Faith
  • Decision
  • Woman

• It's been a pretty fun ride, to tell you the truth.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Truth
  • Fun
  • Pretty

• My parents really encouraged me.

  

  Randy Castillo Mötley Crüe
  • Parents
  • Me
  • Really

• What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?

  

  O. Henry
  • World
  • Together
  • Moving

• Be realistic: Plan for a miracle.

  

  Rajneesh
  • Miracle

• Even intellectuals should have learned by now that objective rationality is not the default position of the human mind, much less the bedrock of human affairs.

  

  Roy Blount, Jr.
  • Mind
  • Should
  • Humans

• I feel as though I have lived many lives, experienced the heights and depths of each and like the waves of the ocean, never known rest. Throughout the years, I looked always for the unusual, for the wonderful, for the mysteries at the heart of life.

  

  Leni Riefenstahl
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Rest

• I always tell women to use the fact that we offer a different point of view in a room full of men, to their advantage. Because we often stand out, we gain a unique platform to demonstrate our knowledge and capabilities.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Men
  • Different
  • Women

• The world isn't going to become an Islamic caliphate, but that doesn’t stop the Islamists from pursuing that as a goal.

  

  Brian Reynolds Myers
  • World
  • Stop
  • Islamic

• There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is generally adopted.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Men
  • Opinion
  • Conviction