#pa

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#brief #buildings #cannot #close #during

National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#baseness #character #country #every #every nation

Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#centre #certain #certain time #distance #finds

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#hand #hands #history #however #inferior

The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#brain #dwells #kind #may #organism

As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong. That's what I find with acting. As soon as it becomes padded, it becomes pat. ↗

— Liev Schreiber

#becomes #doing #find #i #know

I find that the most interestingly written parts happen to be the bad guys. ↗

— Liev Schreiber

#bad guys #find #guys #happen #i

I get panic attacks in big crowds. ↗

— Liev Schreiber

#big #crowds #get #i #panic

How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper. ↗

— Olive Schreiner

#fools #hard #how #imbecile #ink

A market that's as open as possible is the precondition for a successful economy, and a successful economy is the precondition to being able to pay for social security. ↗

— Gerhard Schroder

#being #economy #market #open #pay