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

  

  Damian Lewis
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• Make the wise man within you your living ideal.

  

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

  

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

  

  Youssou N'Dour
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• I play sad bastard music. For the money.

  

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

  

  Ian Mckellen
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  • 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
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• At least I had that, one guy understood me.

  

  Yoko Ono
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• The proportion of ingredients is important, but the final result is also a matter of how you put them together. Equilibrium is key.

  

  Alain Ducasse
  • Important
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• There are an infinite number of ways to be moved in the theater.

  

  Martha Plimpton

• Well, filming in Hawaii, you know, is a blessing. It's one of the most beautiful places on this planet. It has a very mystic energy which informs you as an actor.

  

  Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
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• No state, as a matter of public policy, should turn back the clock on progress by, in effect, legalizing and relitigating the same types of discriminatory laws and debates that took America centuries to overcome.

  

  Dannel Malloy
  • America
  • Progress

• Happiness had never been like this before. Now it came like sun showers, the sun and the rain together. Happiness was happier than it had been - sharp, piercing, and snatched, like a breath while swimming in surf.

  

  Elizabeth Knox
  • Happiness
  • Sun
  • Breath

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

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Health
  • Happiness
  • Follies