"[T]he moralists of Europe [have] pretended that beasts have no rights... a doctrine revolting/gross/barbarous... on which a native of the Asiatic uplands could not look without righteous horror..."

-- Arthur Schopenhauer

#Animal Quotes #Europe Quotes #Rights Quotes

“No real blood flows in the veins of the knowing subject constructed by Locke, Hume, and Kant, but rather the diluted extract of reason as a mere activity of thought.”

Source : Wilhelm Dilthey, Rudolf A. Makkreel, Frithjof Rodi (1991). “Introduction to the Human Sciences”, p.50, Princeton University Press
“We were about to give up and call it a night when somebody threw the girl off the bridge.”
“I am looking for a poem that says Everything so I don't have to write anymore.”
“My daughter is seven, and some of the other second-grade parents complain that their children don't read for pleasure. When I visit their homes, the children's rooms are crammed with expensive books, but the parent's rooms are empty. Those children do not see their parents reading, as I did every day of my childhood. By contrast, when I walk into an apartment with books on the shelves, books on the bedside tables, books on the floor, and books on the toilet tank, then I know what I would see if I opened the door that says 'PRIVATE--GROWNUPS KEEP OUT': a child sprawled on the bed, reading.”
“I'm lucky. I don't know whether I'm deserving or not. All I know is that I work damn hard for everything. And God helps those who help themselves. Every day is like an exam. I believe destiny and hard work go hand in hand. I was studying to be an engineer when my mom and my brother sent my pictures for the Miss India contest. I didn't even know about it. If that isn't destiny, what is?”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Here's to the health of my beloved Critias !”
“If people work together, if they can keep a cooperative spirit and use their ingenuity and balance it all with good humor and good will, then there's nothing to be afraid of. That's the sappy part of it, ... On the other hand, every Halloween for many years when my kids were trick-or-treating I would put on my 'Ghostbusters' jumpsuit with a police flashlight to protect all the kids from ghosts.”
“The art of injudicious reading, the art of miscellaneous reading which every normal man ought to cultivate, is a very fine and satisfactory art; for the best guide to books is a book itself. It clasps hands with a thousand other books.”

Source : Maurice Francis Egan (1922). “Confessions of a Book-lover”

You may also like:

Baruch Spinoza
Philosopher
Friedrich Nietzsche
Philologist
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Philosopher
Immanuel Kant
Philosopher
Jean-Paul Sartre
Philosopher
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Writer
Martin Heidegger
Philosopher
Sigmund Freud
Neurologist
Soren Kierkegaard
Philosopher