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Him Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
- Were an Asiatic to ask me for a definition of Europe, I should be forced to answer him: It is that part of the world…
- The ordinary method of education is to imprint ideas and opinions, in the strict sense of the word, prejudices, on the mind of the child,…
- A man never is happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so; he seldom attains his…
- Imagination is strong in a man when that particular function of the brain which enables him to observe is roused to activity without any necessary…
- If a person is stupid, we excuse him by saying that he cannot help it; but if we attempted to excuse in precisely the same…
- Nothing in life gives a man so much courage as the attainment or renewal of the conviction that other people regard him with favor; because…
- It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher. He must be like…
- I observed once to Goethe that when a friend is with us we do not think the same of him as when he is away.…
- The man who goes up in a balloon does not feel as if he were ascending; he only sees the earth sinking deeper below him.
- Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so.
- The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
- The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.
- If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.
- For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a…
- the brut first knows death when it dies, but man draws consciously nearer to it every hour that he lives; and this makes his life…
- What a person is for himself, what abides with him in his loneliness and isolation, and what no one can give or take away from…
- Truth is no harlot who throws her arms round the neck of him who does not desire her; on the contrary, she is so coy…
- A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in his…
- He who can see truly in the midst of general infatuation is like a man whose watch keeps good time, when all clocks in 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…
- If we suspect that a man is lying, we should pretend to believe him; for then he becomes bold and assured, lies more vigorously, and…
- The deep pain that is felt at the death of every friendly soul arise from the feeling that there is in every individual something which…
More Him Quotes
- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not… — Francis of Assisi
- When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because… — Chinua Achebe
- When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing… — Rowan Atkinson
- Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. — Chinua Achebe
- Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. — Wystan Hugh Auden