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Hands Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
- Newspapers are the second hand of history.
- To read a book is to hold an entire world in the palm of your hand. That world is unique to you; no two readers…
- The greatest wisdom is to make the enjoyment of the present the supreme object of life; because that is the only reality, all else being…
- If the lives of men were relieved of all need, hardship and adversity; if everything they took in hand were successful, they would be so…
- Talent works for money and fame; the motive which moves genius to productivity is, on the other hand, less easy to determine.
- For the world is Hell, and men are on the one hand the tormented souls and on the other the devils in it.
- Genuine contempt, on the other hand, is the unsullied conviction of the worthlessness of another.
- Talent is able to achieve what is beyond other people's capacity to achieve, yet not what is beyond their capacity of apprehension; therefore it at…
- What now on the other hand makes people sociable is their incapacity to endure solitude and thus themselves.
- As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast…
- Our moral virtues benefit mainly other people; intellectual virtues, on the other hand, benefit primarily ourselves; therefore the former make us universally popular, the latter…
- It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.
- Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works…
- To attain something desired is to discover how vain it is; and…though we live all our lives in expectation of better things, we often at…
- If at any moment Time stays his hand, it is only when we are delivered over to the miseries of boredom.
- The intellectual attainments of a man who thinks for himself resemble a fine painting, where the light and shade are correct, the tone sustained, the…
- If the world were a paradise of luxury and ease, a land flowing with milk and honey, where every Jack obtained his Jill at once…
- The vanity of existence is revealed in the whole form existence assumes: in the infiniteness of time and space contrasted with the finiteness of the…
- There is not much to be got anywhere in the world. It is filled with misery and pain; if a man escapes these, boredeom lies…
- Indeed, intolerance is essential only to monotheism; an only God is by nature a jealous God who will not allow another to live. On the…
More Hands Quotes
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- We always expect tremendous criticism. It is my role to be the lightning rod ... to attract the attacks against the organization… — Julian Assange
- Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will… — Margaret Atwood
- The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
- What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and… — Saint Augustine
- If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if… — Saint Augustine
- Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree;… — Jane Austen
- The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed… — Alfred Austin
- I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to myself, that… — Teresa of Avila
- I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults. On the… — Teresa of Avila
- God will roast their stomachs in hell at the hands of Iraqis. — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf