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
  • Book
  • Free

• 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
  • Art
  • 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
  • Water

• One cannot plan for the unexpected.

  

  Aaron Klug
  • Plan
  • Cannot
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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

• Language is fun; it's fun to try.

  

  Lars Mikkelsen
  • Fun
  • Language
  • Try

• Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Failure
  • Adversity
  • Seed

• 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
  • Doing
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  • Excuses

• 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
  • Hollywood

• You can observe a lot by just watching.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • You
  • Watching
  • Observe

• Most actors hate watching their own films because all you can see is the glaring mistakes, your own tricks and ticks.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Hate
  • See
  • Mistakes

• 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

• Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore

• Whoever portrays me on screen need not necessarily be a look alike. Any hero could play my part.

  

  Adnan Sami
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• There were no route maps posted on the walls, but a Wonderland-style sign commanding, 'If you know where you are, then please tell others.

  

  Elizabeth Wein
  • Route
  • Wonderland
  • Commanding

• At the end of the two years that I was the director [of the Center for Reproductive and Sexual Health in Manhattan], we had done 60,000 abortions. [During my life] I myself, with my own hands, have done 5,000 abortions. I have supervised another 10,000 that residents have done under my direction. So I have 75,000 abortions in my life. Those are pretty good credentials to speak on the subject of abortion.

  

  Bernard Nathanson
  • Director
  • Abortion
  • Center

• Strategically we should despise all our enemies, while tactically we should take them all seriously.

  

  Mao Zedong

• 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