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Nothing 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 scenes of our life are like pictures done in rough mosaic. Looked at close, they produce no effect. There is nothing beautiful to be…
- Philosophy ... is a science, and as such has no articles of faith; accordingly, in it nothing can be assumed as existing except what is…
- You can do what you will, but in any given moment of your life you can will only one definite thing and absolutely nothing other…
- That human life must be some kind of mistake is sufficiently proved by the simple observation that man is a compound of needs which are…
- It is difficult to keep quiet if you have nothing to do
- Something of great importance now past is inferior to something of little importance now present, in that the latter is a reality, and related to…
- Genius is its own reward; for the best that one is, one must necessarily be for oneself. . . . Further, genius consists in the…
- What people commonly call Fate is, as a general rule, nothing but their own stupid and foolish conduct.
- Pride is generally censured and decried, but mainly by those who have nothing to be proud of.
- 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…
- There is not a grain of dust, not an atom that can become nothing, yet man believes that death is the annhilation of his being.
- 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…
- With health, everything is a source of pleasure; without it, nothing else, whatever it may be, is enjoyable...Healt h is by far the most important…
- They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in…
- It would be better if there were nothing. Since there is more pain than pleasure on earth, every satisfaction is only transitory, creating new desires…
- If life — the craving for which is the very essence of our being — were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would be…
- Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which…
- Our civilized world is nothing but a great masquerade. You encounter knights, parsons, soldiers, doctors, lawyers, priests, philosophers and a thousand more: but they are…
- Men best show their character in trifles, where they are not on their guard. It is in the simplest habits, that we often see the…
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- I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. — J. J. Abrams
- Nature does nothing in vain. — Aristotle
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- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
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