Famous Quotes & Sayings

Baruch Spinoza

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

Baruch Spinoza

I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature

Arthur Schopenhauer

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Arthur Schopenhauer

In every page of David Hume, there is more to be learned than from Hegel's, Herbart's and Schleiermacher's complete philosophical works.

Arthur Schopenhauer

It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.

Eleanor Roosevelt

it is harder to be philosophical when you are young.

David Cronenberg

As a filmmaker, I ask questions but don't have answers. Moviemaking is a philosophical exploration. I invite the audience to come on the journey and discover what they think and feel.

Carter Burwell

On Being John Malkovich and the cinema of the absurd, I do enjoy it. I wish there were more like it. The very fact that there can't be more like it is one of the reasons it's admirable.

Bernie Sanders

I am proud of the campaign that we ran. Obviously, I wish we could have done a little bit better.

Andy Garcia

I wish we didn't have to tell this story.

Drew Carey

I don't do one show and wish I was doing something else.

Dudley Moore

I wish I had a dime for every dime I have.

Douglas William Jerrold

Wishes, at least, are the easy pleasures of the poor.

Dalai Lama

You can’t help someone just by making a wish to do so, you have to take action.

Dodie Smith

How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!

Desmond Tutu

I wish I could shut up, but I can't, and I won't.