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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The determination of the value of an item must not be based on its price, but rather on the utility it yields. The price of the item is dependent only on the thing itself and is equal for everyone; the utility, however, is dependent on the particular circumstances of the person making the estimate. Thus there is no doubt that a gain of one thousand ducats is more significant to a pauper than to a rich man though both gain the same amount.
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Squeezing yourself to ooze out the last ounce of sex allure is terribly hard. I'd like to do roles like Julie in Bury the Dead, Gretchen in Faust and Teresa in Cradle Song.
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[Mathematics] is an independent world created out of pure intelligence.
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The mind grows narrow in proportion as the soul grows corrupt.
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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.
