Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

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• I'm big on manners. I'm big on politeness. I'm big on gratitude.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Gratitude
  • Big
  • Manners

• I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Writing
  • Poetry
  • Qualities

• Humans are insane. We kill our own people, starve our own people, sell them, work them to death, beat them, don't give them affordable/free/good healthcare, and let them live in misery, while a few of us have - we have all we want. We are evil.

  

  Faith Hunter
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Seriously
  • Jingle

• Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians - except for the occasional mountain lion steak.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Food
  • Cool
  • Mountain

• Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • World
  • Live
  • Children

• I love girl power.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Love
  • Power
  • Girl

• You have to think about your image and how you want people to view you. And if it becomes too much, people will get kind of tired of you.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • People
  • Tired
  • View

• Forget yourself. Become one with eternity. Become part of your environment.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Environment
  • Yourself

• I believe that we all have something to share with someone else that can better someone else's life.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Better

• Throughout U.S. history, competent public investments have been an essential complement to private investments - from the Louisiana Purchase, to land-grant colleges, to the Interstate Highway System, to the Internet.

  

  Felix Rohatyn
  • History
  • Internet
  • Public

• A steady job is at least as deleterious to the spirit of bachelorhood as a steady date. Some jobs are worse than actual wives.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Job

• For every laugh, there should be a tear.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Should
  • Laugh
  • Tear

• Now as to what pertains to these Surd numbers (which, as it were by way of reproach and calumny, having no merit of their own are also styled Irrational, Irregular, and Inexplicable) they are by many denied to be numbers properly speaking, and are wont to be banished from arithmetic to another Science, (which yet is no science) viz. algebra.

  

  Isaac Barrow
  • Science

• 'When I was out in the bars drinking and fighting I was a little bit less of a peacemaker than I would be if I'd had a coupla hits of a joint and gone and laid down somewhere.'

  

  Willie Nelson
  • Fighting
  • Drinking

• Maybe this is why so many serial killers work in pairs. It's nice not to feel alone in a world full of victims or enemies.

  

  Chuck Palahniuk
  • World
  • Work
  • Why

• I never hugged him, I bombed him.

  

  Margaret Thatcher

• I never bought a stock in my life. I don't understand it. To me it is like Chinese.

  

  Lorraine Bracco
  • Life
  • Chinese
  • Stock

• I decided I should go after the roles I like, that I am inspired by, and then, if I am having a good time, chances are that people will like watching you.

  

  James Marsden
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• Society would be a lot better if people watched Hulu's original programming and not just 'Mozart in the Jungle,' which everyone is watching, apparently.

  

  Billy Eichner
  • People
  • Society

• I mean, there's times to rock and roll, and I love that too. But I think my first love is acoustic music.

  

  Graham Nash
  • Music
  • Rock

• Woe to the book you can read without constantly wondering about the author!

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Book
  • Author

• We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • Waste
  • Cannot
  • Idleness

• The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
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  • Same Things