
“This has given me a feeling of confidence, which I might not have had otherwise.”
(on Harry Potter experience) http://www.movietome.com/people/86509/daniel-radcliffe/trivia.html
Source: The Architecture of Happiness
“This has given me a feeling of confidence, which I might not have had otherwise.”
(on Harry Potter experience) http://www.movietome.com/people/86509/daniel-radcliffe/trivia.html
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn (1991)
B 49
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook B (1768-1771)
“Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.”
Herzog on Herzog (2002)
1930s, Mein Weltbild (My World-view) (1931)
Context: In human freedom in the philosophical sense I am definitely a disbeliever. Everybody acts not only under external compulsion but also in accordance with inner necessity. Schopenhauer's saying, that "a man can do as he will, but not will as he will," has been an inspiration to me since my youth up, and a continual consolation and unfailing well-spring of patience in the face of the hardships of life, my own and others'. This feeling mercifully mitigates the sense of responsibility which so easily becomes paralyzing, and it prevents us from taking ourselves and other people too seriously; it conduces to a view of life in which humor, above all, has its due place.