Spirit? Who is that fellow? And where do you know him from? Is he perhaps not merely an arbitrary and convenient hypostasis that you have not even defined, let alone deduced or proved? Do you think you have an audience of old women in front of you?
I was aware of something stable in his nature. Ha game me a feeling of security, as if nothing I said or did would change his opinion of me. I never found his pleasantries irksome, partly, no doubt, because he was a Viscount, but, partly,...
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L.P. Hartley
But when we sit together, close, ’ said Bernard, ‘we melt into each other with phrases. We are edged with mist. We make an unsubstantial territory.
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Virginia Woolf
You praise man who has the ability to perform great actions. I admire man who can deal with great pain and knows no despair.
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Toba Beta
So think as if your every thought were to be etched in fire upon the sky for all and everything to see. For so, in truth, it is.
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Mikhail Naimy
Water is sufficient...the spirit moves over water.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
More Quotes By Arthur Schopenhauer
What disturbs and depresses young people is the hunt for happiness on the firm assumption that it must be met with in life. From this arises constantly deluded hope and so also dissatisfaction. Deceptive images of a vague happiness hover before us in our dreams,...
If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would not a man rather have so much sympathy with the coming generation as to spare it the burden of existence, or at any...
We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.
We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
