Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
The faculty for remembering is not diminished in proportion to what one has learnt, just as little as the number of moulds in which you cast sand lessens its capacity for being cast in new moulds.
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Good luck - it's always ready to use in case.
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I want people to be overwhelmed with light and color in a way they have never experienced.
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To the one party, woman is always heresy and diabolical. To me, the opposite.
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When people are happy they have a reserve upon which to draw, whereas she was like a wheel without a tyre
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Everyone asks if a man is rich, no one if he is good.
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Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well. There is nothing more potent than thought. Deed follows word and word follows thought. The word is the result of a mighty thought, and where the thought is mighty and pure the result is always mighty and pure.
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Solon being asked, namely, what city was best to live in. That city, he replied, in which those who are not wronged, no less than those who are wronged, exert themselves to punish the wrongdoers.
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I guess chemistry is just another word for love.
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I think God outdid Himself when He created children.
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Death cannot explain itself. The earnestness consists precisely in this, that the observer must explain it to himself.
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The effectiveness of a leader is best judged by the actions of those he guides.
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Yesterday they called it coincidence. Today it's synchronicity. Tomorrow they'll call it skill.
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I started a grease fire at McDonald's - threw a match in the cook's hair.
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In my mind, depression is, like all non-communicable diseases, a physiologically expressed condition which is profoundly influenced by our social and cultural environments. Depression is a global crisis not only because it is common and universal, but because the vast majority of affected people suffer in silence or receive inappropriate care.
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You can raise the bar or you can wait for others to raise it, but it's getting raised regardless.
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I am obsessed with proportion, and how proportion is perceived.
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Man makes himself, and he only makes himself completely in proportion as he desacrilizes himself and the world. The sacred is the prime obstacle to his freedom. He will become himself only when he is totally demysticized. He will not be truly free until he has killed the last god.
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in proportion as my own discomfort has increased, my conviction of necessity to search into the wants of the friendless and afflicted has deepened. If I am cold, they too are cold; if I am weary, they are distressed; if I am alone, they are abandoned.
