Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
A man who has no mental needs, because his intellect is of the narrow and normal amount, is, in the strict sense of the word, what is called a philistine.
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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
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There's no doubt in the world that directing makes you a better actor. Me, anyway. There's no doubt in the world that it makes me a more collaborative actor.
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Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
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There is a daily discussion with our servants about the price of food and the number of loaves: a conference with our presbyters to consider the sins of our people is a very rare occurrence.
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I'm a fast learner. I may not run as fast as I used to, but I think I still learn as fast.
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Good food is healthy food. Food is supposed to sustain you so you can live better, not so you can eat more. Some people eat to live, and some people live to eat.
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Fiction is the thing I esteem most in my own work; I feel that, even if it's no good, only I could have written those books.
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John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.
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Have the pride of the brown girl and know that you'll figure out your own beauty in time.
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It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
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We all do stupid things.
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Finishing races is important, but racing is more important.
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Oh God, to think that you only fall in love once in your entire life is such a depressing thought.
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I have done the company lifestyle for 16 years, and ballet has changed.
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I could live a thousand years and still not know everything, still not have tried anything.
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Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.
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Die Technologie enthüllt das aktive Verhalten des Menschen zur Natur, den unmittelbaren Produktionsprozesss seines Lebens, damit auch seiner gesellschaftlichen Lebensverhältnisse und der ihnen entquellenden geistigen Vorstellungen.
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'Happiness is a Small Politician' - my mantra then and forever more.
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If poetry is like an orgasm, an academic can be likened to someone who studies the passion-stains on the bedsheets.
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In any commersial setting time comes in three forms. There's real time, there's perceived time, and there's a combination of two.
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革命战争是群众的战争，只有动员群众才能进行战争，只有依靠群众才能进行战争。
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A lot of times, the internal R&D doesn't pan out. You go down one route, you find that it doesn't work the way you planned, and you have to switch and go down another one.
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Civilizations have come and gone and, in spite of our vaunted progress, I am tempted to ask again and again, 'To what purpose?'
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A man who has no mental needs, because his intellect is of the narrow and normal amount, is, in the strict sense of the word, what is called a philistine.
