Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur Schopenhauer

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Newspapers are the second hand of history.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The poet presents the imagination with images from life and human characters and situations, sets them all in motion and leaves itto the beholder to let these images take his thoughts as far as his mental powers will permit. This is why he is able to engage men of the most differing capabilities, indeed fools and sages together. The philosopher, on the other hand, presents not life itself but the finished thoughts which he has abstracted from it and then demands that the reader should think precisely as, and precisely as far as, he himself thinks. That is why his public is so small.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Two Chinamen visiting Europe went to the theatre for the first time. One of them occupied himself with trying to understand the theatrical machinery, which he succeeded in doing. The other, despite his ignorance of the language, sought to unravel the meaning of the play. The former is like the astronomer, the latter the philosopher.

Arthur Schopenhauer

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

Arthur Schopenhauer

It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Arthur Schopenhauer

It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

Arthur Schopenhauer

In every page of David Hume, there is more to be learned than from Hegel's, Herbart's and Schleiermacher's complete philosophical works.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

Arthur Schopenhauer

It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Life is a constant process of dying.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

Antonio Machado

Those who deny the existence of the truth postulate the truth of their denial and plainly contradict themselves.

Antonio Porchia

Would there be this eternal seeking if the found existed?

Antonio Porchia

You are fastened to them and cannot understand how, because they are not fastened to you.

Bruce Lee

If you think a thing is impossible,you'll only make it impossible.

Bruce Lee

The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action.

Bruce Lee

Many people dedicate their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like, rather than actualizing themselves. This difference between self-actualization and self-image actualization is very important. Most people live only for their image

Elie Wiesel

Still I believe that Hanna Arendt, she was wrong when she tried to say that we are all actually capable of this, it's not true. I think it's not true. There are certain things human beings are not capable of. I mean people, even normal human beings. You have to do certain things in order to become what the enemy was and I didn't accept her philosophical outlook on that.

Albert Schweitzer

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

Albert Camus

One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity.

Albert Camus

The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.

Annie Besant

A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story of the substances that cast the shadows.

Czeslaw Milosz

The partition separating life from death is so tenuous. The unbelievable fragility of our organism suggests a vision on a screen: a kind of mist condenses itself into a human shape, lasts a moment and scatters.

D. A. Carson

Some people say What's the use of the term if it has to be so fully documented and constrained and footnoted and all the rest. My response to that is: there is no theological word that does not have to be similarly footnoted and constrained: justification, spirit, sanctification etc. Any term can be distorted or domesticated or fly off the handle because of another alien philosophical structure that's imposed on the text and so on. Inerrancy is no different from what we find in every other theologically loaded word.

D. H. Lawrence

They lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and artistic matters, they were just as good as the men themselves: only better, since they were women.