Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.
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I always knew where I was going eventually, so it helped me to stay at home for three years. It helped me to develop my game. But it also helped me off the ice. Life here is way different, and I was able to get older.
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The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.
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There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors. ... Our political life is also predicated on openness. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it and that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. And we know that as long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost, and science can never regress.
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Elements within Malcolm's X own entourage, some of them were very angry with some of the changes that had occurred with Malcolm. One source of anger, curiously enough, was that - was the tension between MMI and OAAU, that the MMI, the Muslim Mosque Incorporated, these were women and men who had left the Nation of Islam out of loyalty to Malcolm, but then Malcolm continued to evolve rapidly.
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Work builds and refines character, creates beauty, and is the instrument of our service to one another and to God.
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We couldn't put the ball in the basket.
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You cannot be a man of faith and live in a day. You do not live in a day if you are a man of faith.
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If you make your prayers an expression of gratitude and thanksgiving for the blessings you have already received, instead of requests for what you do not have, you will obtain results a great deal faster.
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He overcomes a stout enemy who overcomes his own anger.
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Money is a good servant, a dangerous master.
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The purpose of criminal law is to punish the enemies of those in power.
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More glorious to merit a sceptre than to possess one.
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The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.
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The national distrust of the contemplative temperament arises less from an innate Philistinism than from a suspicion of anything that cannot be counted, stuffed, framed or mounted over the fireplace in the den.
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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
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...she was oppressed, she was overcome by her own felicity; and happily disposed as is the human mind to be easily familiarized with any change for the better, it required several hours to give sedateness to her spirits, or any degree of tranquillity to her heart.
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Distrust those in whom the desire to punish is strong.
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The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.
