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Mean Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
- Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is.
- Marrying means doing whatever possible to become repulsed of each other
- Life is a task to be done. It is a fine thing to say defunctus est; it means that the man has done his task.
- Because Christian morality leaves animals out of account, they are at once outlawed in philosophical morals; they are mere 'things,' mere means to any ends…
- A man's knowledge may be said to be mature, in other words, when it has reached the most complete state of perfection to which he,…
- 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…
- If people insist that honor is dearer than life itself, what they really mean is that existence and well-being are as nothing compared with other…
- In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high…
- Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts.
- Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not…
- In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.
- Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts. Many books, moreover, serve merely to show how…
- Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts, or leave it.
- Marrying means, to grasp blindfolded into a sack hoping to find out an eel out of an assembly of snakes.
- Students and scholars of all kinds and of every age aim, as a rule, only at information, not insight. They make it a point of…
- The best consolation in misfortune or affliction of any kind will be the thought of other people who are in a still worse plight than…
More Mean Quotes
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it. — J. J. Abrams
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence. — Aristotle
- Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures. — Aristotle
- In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement… — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made… — J. J. Abrams
- If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M H Abrams