Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
For, as you know, religions are like glow-worms; they shine only when it is dark.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Quotes to Explore
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My beliefs will run through everything I do. My beliefs, my values are my anchor and when people try to drag me, as I know they will, it is to that sense of right and wrong, that sense of who I am and what I believe, to which I will always hold.
Ed Miliband
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The gift of sobriety is clarity and a sense of connection - and travel only enhances that.
J. Maarten Troost
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With 'Dance Moms' in L.A., we film on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. When we film in Pittsburgh, we film the same days, but we still dance in our studio when we're not filming, so I'm dancing every day except Sunday.
Maddie Ziegler
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Don't try to guess what it is people want and give it to them. Don't ask for a show of hands. Try your best to write what you like, what you think your friends would like and what you think your father would like and then cross your fingers... The most valuable thing you have is your own voice.
Aaron Sorkin
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I have had many anxieties for our commonwealth, principally occasioned by the depreciation of our money.
Patrick Henry
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My style is schizophrenic! One minute I'll be wearing bright girly dresses, and the next I'll be swinging towards more structured masculine things.
Tamsin Egerton
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When I was a child, one of my first games was a time machine which I made for my brother - a big box covered in silver and bits of cellophane. I'd close him up in it and joggle him and say, 'We're in Victorian times now... and now we're in Egyptian times, and I can see all these pyramids and pharaohs.'
Kate Williams
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Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'
Karin Slaughter
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I was on paper earning more money and having more success than I'd ever had. And it was also the most miserable I've ever been. When those things collided, I realised something was off. That's when I started poking around to figure out what was wrong.
Damien Rice
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(On airplane etiquette) Although reclining your seat is technically your right, just like free speech if you exercise it to your limits everyone around you will think you're an asshole. 18
Ze Frank
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The meaning and design of a problem seem not to lie in its solution, but in our working at it incessantly.
Carl Jung
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I think it’s the shock of every writer’s life when their first book is published. The shock of their lives. One has somehow to adjust from being anonymous, a figure in ambush, working from concealment, to being and working in full public view. It had an enormous effect on me. My impression was that I had suddenly walked into a wall of heavy hostile fire.
Ted Hughes
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If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology, with all its miraculous machinery, must go.
John Burroughs
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Character, self-discipline, determination, attitude and service are the substance of life.
Marian Wright Edelman
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I'm interested in philosophical psychology, people like Nietzsche, Freud, Alcan, Foucault, Derrida.
Hanif Kureishi
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Los Angeles was great fun because it was the polar opposite of Moscow in 1980. It was sunny and bright, lots of colours around, whereas Moscow was dark and oppressive.
Daley Thompson
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I'm a big fan of British cinema; I think we make some unbelievably brilliant films, but they can quite often have a dark feel.
Ed Speleers
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For, as you know, religions are like glow-worms; they shine only when it is dark.
Arthur Schopenhauer
