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(Life) it was a little bit nearer than God, but no less powerful and terrible. Yes, it was something, perhaps, that one did not wish to understand because one feared it, something to which one paid tribute lest it should feel offended and seize one, body and soul.


Arthur Holitscher

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ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER The ultimate foundation of honor is the conviction that moral character is unalterable: a single bad...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER If people insist that honor is dearer than life itself, what they really mean is that existence and ...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Just like those other black holes from outer space, Hollywood is postmodern to this extent: it has n...
ARTHUR KROKER If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of history, it is difficult to avoid the concl...
ARTHUR KOESTLER A man of genius can hardly be sociable, for what dialogues could indeed be so intelligent and entert...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER A man of talent will strive for money and reputation; but the spring that moves genius to the produc...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Genius is an intellect that has become unfaithful to its destiny.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Glamour, that trans-human aura or power to attract imitation, is a kind of vessel into which dreams ...
ARTHUR MILLER The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
ARTHUR KOESTLER The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Although there is a great deal of controversy among scientists about the effects of ingested food on...
ARTHUR WINTER Court... a place where they dispense with justice.
ARTHUR TRAIN Nobody dast blame this man. For a salesman, there is no rock bottom to the life. He don't put a bolt...
ARTHUR MILLER If we were not all so excessively interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none ...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may no...
WILLIAM ARTHUR The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Prometheus is reaching out for the stars with an empty grin on his face.
ARTHUR KOESTLER Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
ARTHUR BRISBANE We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of...
ARTHUR ASHE Enough research will tend to support your conclusions.
ARTHUR BLOCH Just as the largest library, badly arranged, is not so useful as a very moderate one that is well ar...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only be...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop th...
ARTHUR BRISBANE He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping...
ARTHUR BALFOUR If you improve or tinker with something long enough, eventually it will break or malfunction.
ARTHUR BLOCH Training is all-encompassing and should be related to everything a unit does, or can have happen to ...
ARTHUR COLLINS Don't force it... get a bigger hammer.
ARTHUR BLOCH Technology is very seductive, and it is certainly changing the way things are designed and made and ...
ARTHUR GANSON