Besitzen / Own Denken / Thinking Erreichen / Attain Gegenstand / Subject Gleichgültigkeit / Indifference Leistung / Accomplishment Meditation Mein eigenes / My Own Philosophisch / Philosophic Sein / Being Selbst / Self Studien / Studies Unparteiisch / Impartial Welche / Which
Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies' resources, and minimized their own.
To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.
I think most people see drawing as subservient to the subject, a sort of meditation, a studying, a searching observation, in my case, for its own sake.
If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect.
My own mother is very accomplished and makes things like bahar breads as though they are going out of fashion - they are like stuffed parathas and can contain anything from potatoes to poppy seeds.
Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect idea that they subsequently express with their hands.
A work of art can start you thinking about some aesthetic or philosophical problem; it can suggest some new method, some fresh approach to fiction.
The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.
I was fantasising about my own death, I started thinking what my funeral would be like and what music would be played, I was at that level of insanity.
