Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
We grope about in the labyrinth of our life and in the obscurity of our investigations; bright moments illuminate our path like flashes of lightning.
Quotes to Explore
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I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!
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Every intelligent person, whether he's an artist or not - a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist - possesses a poetic way of seeing and describing the world.
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Every time you play a bad girl or guy in a movie, you really come from a place of pain.
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I really like the Gorillaz and Arctic Monkeys.
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We are not sent to do battle for God, but to be used by God in His battles.
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The gymnasiacs of Venice, in California, are so addicted to these practices that there has arisen a nation of men who can no longer put their arms against their sides
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It's helpful to be prepared to celebrate the tiny things that you can do, where you meet the world and you negotiate an outcome that's quite tiny. But you can still make it feel remarkable.
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Music is a paradise lost to us long long ago, perhaps never to be regained.
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Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap.
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You never exist quite so much as when you are not thinking.
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The profession of film director can and should be such a high and precious one; that no man aspiring to it can disregard any knowledge that will make him a better film director or human being.
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The damage of teaching: the constant contact with the undeveloped.
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We had started the tour hoping to make about 200 pounds each as the All Blacks (All Golds) had done the previous year. We got nothing and were lucky to get home!
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Statistics is, or should be, about scientific investigation and how to do it better, but many statisticians believe it is a branch of mathematics. Now I agree that the physicist, the chemist, the engineer, and the statistician can never know too much mathematics, but their objectives should be better physics, better chemistry, better engineering, and in the case of statistics, better scientific investigation. Whether in any given study this implies more or less mathematics is incidental.
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The lack of a sense of history makes us really prey to manipulation.
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The only thing that separated the so-called real world from high school was a locker combination.
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None can believe how powerful prayer is, and what it is able to effect, but those who have learned it by experience.
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When in the world are we going to begin to live as if we understood that this is life? This is our time, our day...and it is passing. What are we waiting for?
