Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the mind. In order to read what is good one must make it a condition never to read what is bad; for life is short, and both time and strength limited.Arthur Schopenhauer
Quotes to Explore
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
Xavier Becerra -
Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.
Saint Ambrose -
I actually made a website called Y2 Combinator, which was the Y Combinator that starts Y Combinator clones. There's a very clear difference in the quality between the companies that come from YC and the companies that don't.
Patrick Collison -
Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
The funniest people I know were, not necessarily troubled, but had a harder time in school or were shy or picked on or something like that. I think that you rely on it. 'Well, I don't think I'm cute and no one wants to hang out with me - I'd better start trying to make people laugh.' I think there's an element of that in there.
Kaitlin Olson -
The problem is that the economy isn't growing fast enough to accommodate the level of spending produced through the democratic process.
Jack Kemp
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My mother was a trained nurse, and she'd tell me that patients would fight as they were administered anaesthetic, grappling to get the gas mask off their face.
Maeve Binchy -
Lizz Wright is my favourite singer. Her voice moves me and takes me to another place. She also grows her own food, and that inspires me.
Laura Mvula -
My philosophy is to not be scared of anyone. If I play well, great; if I don't, I learn from the match and move on.
Saina Nehwal -
The standards are being lowered, not just on the Internet, but in all of news and media.
Vince McMahon -
The U.S. government has known since the early 1990s about Soviet-era smallpox weapons, and collected circumstantial evidence of programs elsewhere.
Barton Gellman -
We all remember Abraham Lincoln as the leader who saved our Union. Founder of the Republican Party.
Barack Obama
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In order to understand, I destroyed myself.
Fernando Pessoa -
'Music is a fine thing, but metal lasts.' He struck the table with two huge fingers to emphasize his point....As I left, I thought about what Kilvin had said. It was the first thing he had said to me that I did not agree with wholeheartedly. Metal rusts, I thought, music lasts forever.Time will eventually prove one of us right.
Patrick Rothfuss -
I've always considered my work one piece and I consider that my work won't be finished until I am dead and buried and I hope that's a long, long time.
John Lennon The Beatles -
I do believe that the president of Venezuela is really, really destroying his own country, economically, politically.
Condoleezza Rice -
Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts. Woman the poem, man the poet; woman the heart, man the head; such divisions are only important when they are never to be transcended. If nature is never bound down, nor the voice of inspiration stifled, that is enough.
Margaret Fuller -
Physiological experiment on animals is justifiable for real investigation; but not for mere damnable and detestable curiosity.
Charles Darwin
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I believe the best poetry of our times is growing too artistic; the study is too visible. If freedom and naturalness are lost out of poetry, everything worth having is lost.
Lucy Larcom -
If you have a Stradivarius and nobody to play it, it's just a Stradivarius. Or is it even that? It's nothing.
Peabo Bryson -
When the Walkman was the craze in my generation, I was one of the first to have it.
Benigno Aquino III -
I then wrought at my trade as a tailor; carefully attended meetings for worship and discipline; and found an enlargement of gospel love in my mind, and therein a concern to visit Friends in some of the back settlements of Pennsylvania and Virginia.
John Woolman -
The cinema is going to form the mind of England. The national conscience, the national ideals and tests of conduct, will be those of the film.
George Bernard Shaw -
One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the mind. In order to read what is good one must make it a condition never to read what is bad; for life is short, and both time and strength limited.
Arthur Schopenhauer