Eudaemonistic Quotes & Sayings

There is no one who would have me - I can't cook. — Greta Garbo

In fact, one may - this simple proposition, which is often forgotten should be placed at the beginning of every study which essays to deal with rationalism - rationalize life from fundamentally different basic points of view and in very different directions. Rationalism is an historical concept which covers a whole world of different things. It will be our task to find out whose intellectual child the particular concrete form of rational thought was, from which the idea of a calling and the devotion to labour in the calling has grown, which is, as we have seen, so irrational from the standpoint of purely eudaemonistic self-interest, but which has been and still is one of the most characteristic elements of our capitalistic culture. — Max Weber

Don't follow a defeated foe. Follow Christ. It is costly. You will be an exile in this age. But you will be free. — John Piper

Fashion is about going ahead, not about memory. — Karl Lagerfeld

The reason I was in most of the movies I've done is that they paid for me to be in the theater. — Nathan Lane

Rose you can't go." This time the sadness in Lissa's voice was mirrored though the bond, flooding into me. "It's not that Dimitri didn't ask to see you. He asked specifically not to see you. — Richelle Mead

Nothing ought to be told, I think that does not interest or kindle one's own mind in looking back; it is the only condition on which one can hope to interest or kindle other minds. — Mary Augusta Ward