"Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost"
- Arthur Schopenhauer
About this Quote
This quote by Arthur Schopenhauer highlights the significance of honor and how it must be kept. According to Schopenhauer, honor is not something that can be attained through winning or attaining something, but rather it is something that needs to be maintained and not lost. This recommends that honor is a quality that a person possesses and need to constantly maintain through their actions and habits. It is not something that can be acquired or lost in a single moment, but rather it is a constant state of being. This quote emphasizes the worth of honor and the obligation that comes with it to keep it at all times.
"It is an honor to be awarded with such a high rating from an organization as well respected as the NAACP. I am pleased that the oldest and largest civil rights organization in the nation, has recognized my voting record"
"I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that"