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World Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
- There are two things which make it impossible to believe that this world is the successful work of an all-wise, all-good, and at the same…
- To call the world God is not to explain it; it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym.
- Consider the Koran, for example; this wretched book was sufficient to start a world-religion, to satisfy the metaphysical need of countless millions for twelve hundred…
- All the cruelty and torment of which the world is full is in fact merely the necessary result of the totality of the forms under…
- For where did Dante take the material of his hell but from our actual world? And yet he made a very proper hell of it.
- 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…
- Vedas are the most rewarding and the most elevating book which can be possible in the world.
- The world is my representation
- In the whole world there is no study so beneficial and so elevating as that of the Upanishads. It has been the solace of my…
- The world is not a factory and animals are not products for our use
- 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 ordinary method of education is to imprint ideas and opinions, in the strict sense of the word, prejudices, on the mind of the child,…
- Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. This is an error of the intellect as…
- Will without intellect is the most vulgar and common thing in the world, possessed by every blockhead, who, in the gratification of his passions, shows…
- This actual world of what is knowable, in which we are and which is in us, remains both the material and the limit of our…
- This world could not have been the work of an all-loving being, but that of a devil, who had brought creatures into existence in order…
- Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.
- For the world is Hell, and men are on the one hand the tormented souls and on the other the devils in it.
- It takes place, by and large, with the same sort of necessity as a tree brings forth fruit, and demands of the world no more…
- If there is anything in the world that can really be called a mans property, it is surely that which is the result of his…
- 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…
- If at times I have thought myself unfortunate, it is because of a confusion, an error. I have mistaken myself for someone else... Who am…
- There is only one inborn erroneous notion that we exist in order to be happy So long as we persist in this inborn error the…
- Console yourself by remembering that the world doesn't deserve your affection.
- 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…
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- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- 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
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach