"A man can be himself only so long as he is alone."

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Source : Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Counsels and Maxims”, p.36, Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer

#Men Quotes #Long Quotes #Solitude Quotes

“Can I ask why youâ€™re throwing knives at cheese?â€™ â€˜Caleb came by to discuss something,â€™ Tobias says, leaning his head against the wall as he looks at me. â€˜And knife-throwing just came up somehow.â€™ â€˜As it so often does,â€™ I say, a small smile inching across my face.”
“These are all novels, all about people that never existed, the people that read them it makes them unhappy with their own lives. Makes them want to live in other ways they can never really be.”
“The happiest people are the ones with the most community.”

Source : Donny Deutsch, Peter Knobler (2009). “Often Wrong, Never in Doubt: Unleash the Business Rebel Within”, p.7, Harper Collins
“The harmony of the universe knows only one musical form - the legato; while the symphony of number knows only its opposite - the staccato. All attempts to reconcile this discrepancy are based on the hope that an accelerated staccato may appear to our senses as a legato.”

Source : Tobias Dantzig (2005). “Number: The Language of Science”, Dutton Juvenile
“Everybody's got the mindset that everything should be measurable.”
“In a way I do hate the process of writing. It's like learning a role where you never think you're going to be able to conquer it when you start and it just takes enough focus and narrowing and getting enthusiastic and not losing it and so on. It's never good enough, but you aim for something and you hope it comes somewhat close. But it is a pleasure once you have written it.”
“No matter how carefully you plan it, there are times when you suddenly find yourself a committee of one, in charge of lifting the entire world with a lever.”
“By 'happiness' I do not mean worldly success or outside approval, though it would be priggish to deny that both these things are most agreeable. I mean the inner consciousness, the inner conviction that one is doing well the thing that one is best fitted to do by nature.”

Source : Edith Sitwell (Dame), Elizabeth Salter, Allanah Harper (1976). “Edith Sitwell: fire of the mind : an anthology”, Michael Joseph

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