Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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• I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.

  

  M. C. Escher
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  • Use

• I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Age
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  • Landscape

• Make the wise man within you your living ideal.

  

  Karl G. Maeser
  • Man
  • Wise
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• As soon as I began to earn what might be called fairly large sums, I bought a car and began to explore the country around New York.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Country
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• I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • World
  • Women
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• It's all about risk-taking when you're making an album. Don't be scared to do weird things sometimes.

  

  Vic Fuentes
  • You
  • Sometimes
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• The Chinese are brought up to believe that you should be silent in class. The teacher speaks, and you just listen and absorb what they say.

  

  Caleb Deschanel
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Teacher

• Creme Brulee is the ultimate 'guy' dessert. Make it and he'll follow you anywhere.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Guy
  • You
  • Follow

• I don't really see myself as an actor.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
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  • Actor
  • See

• For me, the idea of curating can be expanded. Curating science, curating art, music and theater and performance and not only bring those things into art but bring art into those areas.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Music
  • Art
  • Science

• For me, Islam is a moral reference point, a source of inspiration to work collectively with people, to love people and to help them, to concentrate on universal values of mercy, co-operation and tolerance.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • Work
  • Moral
  • Inspiration

• Entrepreneurship requires flexibility and an open society, and there will always be people who succeed and people who follow. For those who lead, they have an obligation to create a better life for the people around them.

  

  Daniel A. D'Aniello
  • People
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• I play sad bastard music. For the money.

  

  J. Tillman
  • Music
  • Money
  • Sad

• In a marketplace where it's so easy to produce products, where your competitors can essentially match you on the product itself, you need to have something else. You need to have an added value, and that added value is the identity, the idea behind your brand.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Value
  • Identity
  • Brand

• There are deaths in public places on the grounds that the victim is gay.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Gay
  • Victim
  • Places

• Does the novel have to deepen the psychology of its heroes? Certainly the modern novel does, but the ancient legends did not do the same. Oedipus' psychology was deduced by Aeschylus or Freud, but the character is simply there, fixed in a pure and terribly disquieting state.

  

  Umberto Eco
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• In the lead-up to competitions, I just watch box sets and DVDs and play 'Candy Crush.'

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Up
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• At least I had that, one guy understood me.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Understood

• Forgiving is the ultimate source of peace, healing and inner happiness.

  

  Nawang Khechog
  • Happiness
  • Source
  • Forgiving

• When I was a kid I got no respect. My mother breast fed me through a straw.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Mother
  • Respect
  • Kid

• Our virtues are voluntary, and in fact we are in a sense ourselves partly the cause of our moral dispositions, and it is our having a certain character that makes us set up an end of a certain kind, it follows that our vices are voluntary also; they are voluntary in the same manner as our virtues.

  

  Aristotle
  • Character
  • Sense
  • Virtues

• We need be careful how we deal with those about us, when every death carries to some small circle of survivors, thoughts of so much omitted, and so little done- of so many things forgotten, and so many more which might have been repaired! There is no remorse so deep as that which is unavailing; if we would be spared its tortures, let us remember this, in time.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Death
  • Forgotten
  • Tortures

• The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Health
  • Happiness
  • Follies