Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.
Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer
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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.
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Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
- With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
- All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
- Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
- Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.
- Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.
- The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.
- There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.
- Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
- The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
- In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.
Best Quotes
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- There's nothing like a home-cooked meal - nothing! When people ask me what the best restaurant in L.A. is, I say, 'Uh, my house.' It's more intimate. Food can connect people in a forever sort of way.
- These endless legal challenges that define elections in New York are a joke in this country, and they are the reason why it is so expensive, or one of the reasons, it's so expensive to run here and why so many people decide not to run.
- Sometimes what works 40 years ago doesn't work today.
- Well-written words are music.
- Of course, the ideal scenario for parenting is obviously two parents of a mature age.
- I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.
- Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
- It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice.