Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

A man of talent will strive for money and reputation; but the spring that moves genius to the production of its works is not as easy to name.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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• It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • May
  • Cold
  • Friendship

• I am a simple Buddhist monk - no more, no less.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Buddhist
  • Monk

• Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Soul
  • Moments
  • Thoughts

• I hope young athletes can imitate my good side only, not the bad side.

  

  Taufik Hidayat
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Hope

• The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each other in the middle of the grid. Honestly, if I can be fast enough early in the race to be able to get up there and latch onto those two, it will be pure entertainment. It's going to be a pack race, and you never know how that's going to turn out.

  

  Dan Wheldon
  • Up
  • Power
  • Know

• You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • Fall
  • Down
  • Eating

• As awful as crime can be, it's what happens afterward - the struggling to get out of bed, to put one foot in front of the other - that alters people.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Crime
  • Bed

• I was interested in aerospace and flying, and the U.S. is really the best place in the world for flying.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • World
  • Best
  • Flying

• Winning one league title at Roma, to me, is worth winning 10 at Juventus or Real Madrid.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • Me
  • Winning
  • Worth

• I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Work
  • City
  • Best

• We constantly had family conversations. A lot of conversations about life. We've always been a family to where we did everything together, whether it was karate or Bible study... I just really had a chance to look and learn.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Life
  • Family
  • Together

• If I want to, I can sign 20 films for ridiculous amounts of money, but I really want to do different kinds of cinema. I want creative satisfaction.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Different
  • Money
  • Want

• Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Rich
  • University
  • Ireland

• Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • Love
  • Book
  • Today

• I know the dangers and the seductions of the Middle East. It is part of my identity. I grew up among a people who routinely referred to the creation of the State of Israel as the Nakba - the catastrophe. And yet I fell in love with and married a Jewish American woman, the only daughter of two Holocaust survivors, both Jewish Austrians.

  

  Kai Bird
  • People
  • Up
  • Love

• I think that if you're doing a new musical, you want to have the opportunity to experiment and try things without the whole city of critics looking over your shoulder.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Think
  • Opportunity
  • City

• Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Up
  • Never
  • Down

• Unlike physics, economists don't settle things. There seems to be plenty of room for different conclusions that are still accepted in the academy.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Different
  • Physics
  • Economists

• What I always liked about Socrates was his insistence on questioning things for the sake of reaching some sort of clarity - even if it is only clarity about the gaps in our knowledge.

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Knowledge
  • Always
  • Clarity

• I wish thy lot, now bad, still worse, my friend, for when at worst, they say, things always mend.

  

  John Owen
  • Bad
  • Wish
  • Friend

• I know how to create and make people feel something. Honestly, if I didn't do this, I would just have some minimum-wage job in New Mexico, and I would go out on the weekends and make just enough money to pay my insurance and pay for a couple beers, and that would be it.

  

  Freddie Prinze, Jr.
  • People
  • Money
  • Job

• When I started to write realistic, real fiction, the voices that were the strongest for me - the characters that I heard, the people that I knew - were the ones from my childhood.

  

  Kenneth Bonert
  • People
  • Real
  • Childhood

• I've read pretty broadly on the Holocaust - both fiction and non-fiction - and to me, 'The Lost Wife' is one of the best. The horrors of war serve as a backdrop to a love affair that spans a lifetime, and that love story stayed with me long after I put down the book.

  

  Lauren Weisberger
  • Long
  • Book
  • War

• A man of talent will strive for money and reputation; but the spring that moves genius to the production of its works is not as easy to name.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Money
  • Talent
  • Reputation