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  • The vanity of existence is revealed in the whole form existence assumes: in the infiniteness of time and space contrasted with the finiteness of the individual in both; in the fleeting present as the sole form in which actuality exists; in the contingency and relativity of all things; in continual becoming without being; in continual desire without satisfaction; in the continual frustration of striving of which life consists. . . Time is that by virtue of which everything becomes nothingness in our hands and loses all real value.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Real Quotes , Frustration Quotes
  • Sometimes snakes can’t slough. They can’t burst their old skin. Then they go sick and die inside the old skin, and nobody ever sees the new pattern. It needs a real desperate recklessness to burst your old skin at last. You simply don’t care what happens to you, if you rip yourself in two, so long as you do get out.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Rip Quotes , Real Quotes
  • When I first got into the first-year study after the Cultural Revolution, got into the same school with this group, I wasn't conscious of the so-called "Fifth Generation." I didn't like that kind of study condition because there's no real, true education there.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Ai Weiwei Quotes , Real Quotes , School Quotes
  • To be sure, the doctrine of a personal God interfering with natural events could never be refuted, in the real sense, by science, for this doctrine can always take refuge in those domains in which scientific knowledge has not yet been able to set foot.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Truth Quotes , Real Quotes
  • The world fears a new experience more than it fears anything. Because a new experience displaces so many old experiences. . . . The world doesn't fear a new idea. It can pigeon-hole any idea. But it can't pigeon-hole a real new experience.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Fear Quotes , Real Quotes
  • We are always getting ready to live, but never living... The wave moves onward but the particles of which it is composed do not... It cannot be but that at intervals throughout society there are real men intermixed . . . as the carpenter puts one iron bar in his bannister for every five or six wooden ones.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Real Quotes , Moving Quotes
  • The influence of the senses have in men overpowered the thought to the degree that the walls of time and space have come to look solid, real and insurmountable. .. Yet time and space are but inverse measures of the power of the mind. Man is capable of abolishing them both.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Wall Quotes , Real Quotes
  • For those actors and directors who produce films which are always about the old kingdom or about heroes, you know about the fantasies related to the classics, but there is no real discussion about today's life and no discussion of the real conditions - which is really sickening. They've become part of a conspiracy, collaborators of the crime, which is lying to the general public and trying to hide the kind of criminal acts happening in many cases.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Ai Weiwei Quotes , Lying Quotes , Real Quotes
  • Brings [O'Brian's] achievement to a new height....Such is O'Brian's power to possess the imagination that I found I was living in his world as much as my own, wanting to know what happens next. That is the real test. Any contemporary novelist should recognize in Patrick O'Brian a Master of the Art.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Alan Judd Quotes , Art Quotes , Real Quotes