Karl Jaspers Quotes
To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.
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I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.
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I don't have any nicknames.
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If I see somebody dancing really well, it can make me want to dance. Or it could be the music. But perhaps the thing I miss the most is that when you're dancing, everyday concerns vanish. It's a unique world.
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Many of the best firms historically in venture capital have been multi-sector.
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The people don't run the system; the people are victims of the system. The people choose the leaders thinking that they will help them. But when they turn around, there is no help.
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Success is measured in months for me. When my health fails, it will fail quickly. Tumors grow on an exponential curve.
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If studying the periodic table taught me nothing else, it's that the credulity of human beings for periodic table panaceas is pretty much boundless.
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I will be up at 8 A.M. making spaghetti bolognese for Peter and Sophia's evening meal if I'm working that day. I may not get back for the evening, and I worry if I don't do that, then they won't eat anything.
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I say: The time has come for my courageous and proud people, after decades of displacement and colonial occupation and ceaseless suffering, to live like other peoples of the earth, free in a sovereign and independent homeland.
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If I'm confirmed, I'll be myself.
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Let me die because I do not want to see the sun again.
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Scotland is the best place in the whole world.
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No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.
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I just like seeing the world, and it doesn't matter where.
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I think young generation is always better than last generation. No matter you like it or don't like it. My father said, 'Jack, I'm so good, you'll never be' - but I'm better than him. My father is better than my grandfather. My children will be better than us.
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When you're looking through a magazine, you'd think every single person's a different person, but every third girl is actually the same girl in a different outfit and makeup.
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I don't envy young actors.
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Saddam Hussein didn't kill 3,100 people on Sept. 11. Osama bin Laden did, and as far as we know he's still alive.
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One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
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To be a good poet, you must care more about the writing, than the writer.
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By all implies marry if you get a great wife-husband, you are going to be pleased. If you get a bad a single, you are going to become a philosopher.
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The all importance of clothes has sprung up in the intellect of the dandy without effort, like an instinct of genius; he is inspired with clothes, a poet of clothes.
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To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.
