Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
NOT to my contemporaries, not to my compatriots but to mankind I commit my now completed work in the confidence that it will not be without value for them, even if this should be late recognised, as is commonly the lot of what is good. For it cannot have been for the passing generation, engrossed with the delusion of the moment, that my mind, almost against my will, has uninterruptedly stuck to its work through the course of a long life. preface to the second edition of "the world as will and representation.Arthur Schopenhauer
Quotes to Explore
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Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
I never ever paid attention to any election.
Young Jeezy -
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I've always wanted to do a boxing movie.
Walter Hill -
What is the Tao Te Ching? Five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, a God-realized being named Lao-tzu in ancient China dictated 81 verses which are regarded by many as the ultimate commentary on the nature of existence.
Wayne Dyer -
I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.
A. R. Ammons
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I'm a kid who grew up working hard.
J. J. Watt -
It's time to close Gitmo.
Barack Obama -
Simon, there are more things you don’t know than there are things that I do know. I despair of the imbalance.
Tad Williams -
Even though you were once a goddess, Kalidasa’s heaven was only an illusion.
Arthur C. Clarke -
So this is my effort to bring back the hope that we must have if we are to change direction. . . . I think to be fully human, we need to have meaning in our lives, and that's what I am trying to help these young people to find.
Jane Goodall -
The writer in movies is about as low as you can get and you really are a hired hand. You are paid a lot of money to be treated like dirt.
Andrew Davies
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The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability.
Jerry Pournelle -
I have worked for a lot of really great leaders and mentors that I felt provided me, along with many of my peers - many of them women - opportunities.
Mary Barra -
It's just an amazing feeling to know that I'm representing for every plus-size woman out there.
Ashley Nell Tipton -
I woke up one morning with this song in my head, and the opening line of the song is, 'My name was Richard Nixon, only now I'm a girl.'
Bruce Cockburn -
If I'm going to be the black designer, I'm going to tell it my way.
Kerby Jean-Raymond -
Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out.
David Hockney
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Every time we keep a child from smoking, we improve public health.
Eliot Spitzer -
I played for a long time, and there's not many guys I would say, 'O.K., take any shot you want.'
David Robinson The Cars -
If and when Turkey does become a member, it will be after years of structural reforms and with a long track record of sustained and stable growth,
Jack Straw -
The meaning of service is to do the work assigned ungrudgingly and without thought of personal reward material or moral.
D. T. Suzuki -
NOT to my contemporaries, not to my compatriots but to mankind I commit my now completed work in the confidence that it will not be without value for them, even if this should be late recognised, as is commonly the lot of what is good. For it cannot have been for the passing generation, engrossed with the delusion of the moment, that my mind, almost against my will, has uninterruptedly stuck to its work through the course of a long life. preface to the second edition of "the world as will and representation.
Arthur Schopenhauer