Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

There is more to be learnt from every page of David Hume than from the collected philosophical works of Hegel, Herbart, and Schleiermacher are taken together.

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• It's been so amazing. I've always struggled with this barrier that I felt like I'd had up until blogging came along. Just one comment from somebody really sparks something in me. It doesn't need to be this huge war between me and the listeners anymore. I really thrive on that.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • War
  • Me
  • Amazing

• Most writers battle with periods of being blocked; it's almost an occupational hazard. But in the writing of his last and greatest novel, 'A Passage to India,' E. M. Forster got stuck for nine years.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Writing
  • Battle
  • Greatest

• It could get saturated or monotonous if I would do the same characters again and again. That is why, to save myself from that feeling, I take time out to choose roles that excite me.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Time
  • Why
  • Feeling

• In almost every photograph I have ever made, there is something I would do to complete it. I take that to be the spirit hole or the deliberate mistake that's in a Navajo rug to not be godlike, but to be human.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Mistake
  • Human
  • Almost

• The Clouds consign their treasures to the fields;And, softly shaking on the dimpled poolPrelusive drops; let all their moisture flow,In large effusion, o'er the freshen'd world.

  

  Rain
  • World
  • Clouds

• Human beings can imagine situations which are different from those in front of their eyes... because they make and hold in their minds images for absent things.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Different
  • Eyes

• I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard, than in the tombs of the Capulets.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Country
  • Sleep

• Hell is gone and heaven's here,there’s nothing left for you to fear.

  

  Robbie Williams Take That
  • Fear
  • Heaven

• I want to make my own life a masterpiece.

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • Life

• The piano is the X factor. People have a tough time following the structures when there's no piano there, spelling it out. It makes it more easily understood, particularly to people who don't know as much about music.

  

  Branford Marsalis
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• I grew up with a concept of cinema as a directorial thing, meaning the director is allowed to sail the ship. Not a dictatorial thing.

  

  Luca Guadagnino
  • Up

• I have several books I can read over and over. With fiction, it's 'The Stand' by Stephen King, which is my favorite all time. I read that at least once a year, the version which has 100,000 extra words, which is like the director's cut and unabridged. I love the story. I love the social connotation to it.

  

  Corey Taylor Stone Sour
  • Time
  • Words
  • King

• Creative non-fiction is such a liberating genre because it allows the non-fiction writer, whether he or she be journalist or essayist, to use all of the techniques of the fiction writer and all of the ideas, creative approaches, that fiction writers get a chance to use, but they have to use it in a true story.

  

  Lee Gutkind
  • True
  • Ideas
  • Story

• I'm not a hugely social person. Obviously there's a big part of the job that requires that as actors, but it's not the most comfortable for me. I'm a homebody. I don't go out. My life is work and family. There's not a lot in between. That's how I like it.

  

  Deborah Mailman
  • Life
  • Work
  • Family

• I have very few friends and don't talk much.

  

  Ashish Sharma
  • Friends

• I looked into corruption in Afghanistan through a work called 'Payback' and impersonated a police officer, set up a fake checkpoint on the street in Kabul and stopped cars, but instead of asking them for a bribe, offered them money and apologized on behalf of the Kabul Police Department.

  

  Aman Mojadidi
  • Up
  • Work
  • Money

• Sardinia has to have some of the best seafood on the planet. I'm a sea urchin freak, and Sardinia's are some of the best I've had.

  

  Andrew Zimmern
  • Sea

• We can't ever forget that the Internet now is just a staid utility. The exciting platforms are software applications that are very, very simple.

  

  Mark Cuban
  • Simple

• I was raised with those principals and values and ethics that came out of the men and women that served. But this generation doesn't quite know; they haven't been tested.

  

  Jack Scalia
  • Men
  • Women
  • Ethics

• That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of stories, and then people clamour for you to make speeches and tell them what you think about the world.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • People
  • World
  • Fame

• There is more to be learnt from every page of David Hume than from the collected philosophical works of Hegel, Herbart, and Schleiermacher are taken together.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
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