Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

Sich Alles, was zum leiblichen Wohlseyn beiträgt, zu verschaffen, ist der Zweck seines Lebens. Glücklich genug, wenn dieser ihm viel zu schaffen macht! Denn, sind jene Güter ihm schon zum voraus oktroyirt; so fällt er unausbleiblich der Langenweile anheim.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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• I've read quite a few readers' reviews of my book on Amazon, saying, 'Ah, he criticises the free market, he advocates central planning.' I don't do that for a minute! But this is our black and white, dichotomous way of thinking - which has really been harmful.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Thinking
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• I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Done
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  • Today

• Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • People
  • Feeling
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• One cannot plan for the unexpected.

  

  Aaron Klug
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• I choose projects that resonate with me on some personal level and projects that I'm afraid to do. If I'm afraid to do them, then I usually say yes, because it means that I'm not ready to go there and deal with certain aspects of the script. And that means that I need to do it, because the things that scare you only make you better and stronger.

  

  Octavia Spencer
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• It wasn't books that inspired me to write. For me, inspiration was simple, immediate: I got it from eating, dancing, talking. I got it from life lived, things touched, from sensuality, from love of life, from our irrefutable connection to the earth.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Inspiration

• I will never give up my dream of being a prima ballerina and backup dancer for Justin Timberlake!

  

  Haley Webb
  • Up
  • Dream
  • Never

• There is also a natural and very, very strong empathy with the underdog, with people who have suffered, people who have been pushed around by foreigners in particular, but also by their own people.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • People
  • Strong
  • Empathy

• Don't let yourself make excuses for not doing the things you want to do.

  

  Sam Altman
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• After 13 years of life on the half shell in Hollywood, I have made a trip where I wasn't a tourist.

  

  Edgar Bergen
  • Life
  • Years
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• You can observe a lot by just watching.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • You
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• The word must be heard in silence; there must be darkness to see the stars.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Silence

• The sunflower keeps its eye on the sun with its back turned to the shade. We die facing life with our backs to death, as if we were walking out of a room backwards.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Life
  • Death
  • Die

• As a musician, you are all the music that you absorb into your mind; that just subconsciously connects.

  

  Kali Uchis
  • Music
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• I'd stand on a coffee table, and my cousin Edith would give me dimes, and you put the dimes on your head... And when your forehead was full, show was over.

  

  Billy Crystal
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• You know, when cameras are rolling, improvisation doesn't feel natural. The pressure is too great. You're on a time schedule. You've got 60 crewmen.

  

  Albert Brooks
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• I wouldn't ask other people to invest in my race if I wasn't willing to invest in it myself.

  

  Jared Polis
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• The goal of maximizing the welfare of all may be better achieved by an ethic that accepts our inclinations and harnesses them so that, taken as a whole, the system works to everyone's advantage.

  

  Peter Singer
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• Music at its essence is what gives us memories.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Music
  • Memories
  • Essence

• Successful people understand the value of time. Once they commit to doing something, they would never cancel.

  

  Raymond Arroyo
  • People
  • Time
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• I won't eat offal. Once, I was in London at the Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons, which is this really fancy eating establishment and hotel, and I almost got conned into eating testicles. It was one of the most delicious meals I've ever eaten, about twelve courses. That was one of the courses.

  

  Lucy Punch

• Mostly with commercial work, it isn't about personal vision. It's not a personal effort, it's work for hire. That's more my attitude with those. You just want to be a professional worker.

  

  Wes Anderson
  • Effort
  • Vision
  • Attitude

• Sich Alles, was zum leiblichen Wohlseyn beiträgt, zu verschaffen, ist der Zweck seines Lebens. Glücklich genug, wenn dieser ihm viel zu schaffen macht! Denn, sind jene Güter ihm schon zum voraus oktroyirt; so fällt er unausbleiblich der Langenweile anheim.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer