Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

Allerdings ist das Leben nicht eigentlich da, um genossen, sondern um überstanden, abgethan zu werden...

Arthur Schopenhauer

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• Economic growth and human development need to go hand in hand. Human values need to be advocated vigorously.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Hand
  • Growth
  • Values

• Most people, from their second album on, find it much harder to be as spontaneously creative as they were with their first couple of records, and some people only have one thing that they do.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • People
  • Couple
  • Find

• I've played so many different parts in the last 40 years.

  

  Patrick Troughton
  • Different
  • Years
  • Last

• If a big person invests time in reading, kids learn reading is important, the child is important, words are important, stories are important.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Time
  • Important
  • Kids

• When I look at the system here and look at my position - not just as a basketball player, but when I look around me at the values of the people and the culture and compare them with the values of where I came from - I feel so blessed to be from Africa.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • People
  • Culture
  • Player

• Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Writing
  • Opportunity
  • Imagination

• Larry Merchant's just a commentator. He don't know nothing about boxing.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Know
  • Nothing
  • Boxing

• I've learned from every single fight, every single opponent - some great fighters.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Great
  • Single
  • Fight

• The easiest way I can describe what makes a pop song a pop song is that it's a song you want to hear over and over.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Want
  • Song
  • You

• I never pigeonhole myself into any religion, but I feel it has found me. I am trying to make sense of it... the essence of the Mathangi concept.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Religion
  • Pigeonhole
  • Mathangi

• We abandoned the appearance of power to preserve the essence of it.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Power

• Colleges are like old-age homes; except for the fact that more people die in colleges.

  

  Bob Dylan
  • People
  • Age
  • Die

• Practical life is not necessarily directed toward other people, as some think; and it is not the case that practical thoughts are only those which result from action for the sake of what ensues. On the contrary, much more practical are those mental activities and reflections which have their goal in themselves and take place for their own sake.

  

  Aristotle
  • People
  • Life
  • Action

• I guess I created LeRoy Neiman. Nobody else told me how to do it. Well, I'm a believer in the theory that the artist is as important as his work.

  

  LeRoy Neiman
  • Work
  • Important

• I'm South American, and growing up in New York, I had the total stereotypical way of thinking of what Texas was about. I'm like, Texas. Big. Cows. Cowboys. Cowboy hats and cowboy boots. And barbeque.

  

  Paula Garces
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • American

• We can only imagine the history of the free world today if, at the end of the Civil War, there had been two countries: the United States and the Confederate States of America.

  

  Douglas Brinkley
  • World
  • America
  • War

• I'm thrilled to continue my partnership with U by Kotex for Generation Know while helping to empower girls. I've always been a motivational resource for my younger sisters and hope I can positively impact and inspire other young girls too.

  

  Khloe Kardashian
  • Hope
  • Motivational

• When I was interviewing Hillary Clinton, I knew when I'd ask her something that she wasn't going to give me the complete truth because she would break eye contact with me.

  

  Amanda de Cadenet
  • She
  • Truth

• In my experience, if people don't have a sense of humor, they are usually not very good scientists, either.

  

  Andre Geim
  • People
  • Good
  • Experience

• As a painting teacher I'm not flirting, playing around. I'm serious about it.. .If you don't want to be serious about playing at art, do something of no account. Go into banking. Buy collar buttons at five cents a dozen and sell them for five cents a piece.

  

  John French Sloan
  • Art
  • Serious
  • Teacher

• We need to stay on the leading edge of technology, that technology in our products, in our internal process and manufacturing. But most importantly, we need the talent. It's multidisciplinary talent. It's talent that knows how to operate globally, that has technology savvy and a business savvy.

  

  Dennis Muilenburg
  • Business
  • Technology

• By insisting on having your bottle pointing to the north when the cork is being drawn, and calling the waiter Max, you may induce an impression on your guests which hours of laboured boasting might be powerless to achieve. For this purpose, however, the guests must be chosen as carefully as the wine.

  

  Hector Hugh Munro
  • Purpose
  • Wine
  • Bottle

• All the great shows owe a lot to 'Hill Street Blues.'

  

  Lennie James
  • Great

• Allerdings ist das Leben nicht eigentlich da, um genossen, sondern um überstanden, abgethan zu werden...

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer