From Arthur Schopenhauer: “Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.”
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Quote of the day 02/05/24
From Arthur Schopenhauer: “A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.”
Quote of the day 02/04/24
From Arthur Schopenhauer: “Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.”
Quote of the day 02/03/24
From Leo Tolstoy: “There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.”
Quote of the day 02/02/24
From Fyodor Dostoevsky: “It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them — the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.”
Quote of the day 02/01/24
From Fyodor Dostoevsky: “Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!”
Quote of the day 01/31/24
From Plato: “Never discourage anyone…who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.”
Quote of the day 01/30/24
From Fyodor Dostoevsky: “Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don’t say that you’ve wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.”
Quote of the day 01/29/25
From Plato: “…if a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest.”
Quote of the day 01/28/24
From Fyodor Dostoevsky: “If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.”