"The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man."

-- Otto Weininger

#Appreciation Quotes #Stars Quotes #Angel Quotes

“I've spent as much as 30 grand on a watch but it's not about flaunting my wealth. I don't have many extravagances but watches are my biggest one. I must have 30 of them now. I've been collecting since the age of nine, when I won a black TAG in a karting event.”
“I was born a character actor. I was never really a leading man type.”

Source : "'Tootsie' Actor Charles Durning Dead at 89" by Brandi Fowler, www.eonline.com. December 25, 2012.
“I'd like to jump out of an airplane, but I'm very scared of that. I will have to do it.”
“I couldn't think of another city in the world that lined its streets with stone leviathans honoring failed rebels against the state.”

Source : Tony Horwitz (2010). “Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War”, p.247, Vintage
“Sometimes it seems to me that all of life is a struggle to contain the natural impulses of the body and spirit, and that what we call character represents only the degree to which we are successful in this endeavor.”
“Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together.”
“I grew up in beautiful Carmel, California, and I have extremely sweet parents that always loved nature and animals. They instilled such an appreciation for beauty and kindness that it was inherent.”
“Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.”

You may also like:

Anne Campbell
Politician
Arthur Schopenhauer
Philosopher
August Strindberg
Playwright
Cesare Lombroso
Physician
Friedrich Nietzsche
Philologist
Julius Evola
Philosopher
Karl Kraus
Writer
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Philosopher
Penelope Leach
Psychologist