Georg Simmel Quotes

Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being.

Georg Simmel

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• As most actors/actresses, I don't like to watch my own movies, either, and I never look at the dailys while filming.

  

  Cameron Bright
  • Movies
  • Look
  • Own

• In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Art
  • Man
  • Himself

• My parents could not be more Italian.

  

  Edoardo Ponti
  • Parents
  • More
  • Italian

• I find short, fast romances romantic. There's a beauty to dark imagery.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Dark
  • Beauty
  • Romantic

• People want to come to Pakistan but are not given visas. We wish for visas to be given to those people who want to come to Pakistan.

  

  Samina Baig
  • People
  • Want
  • Wish

• Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Science
  • End
  • Romance

• Revision has its own peculiar pleasures and its own peculiar frustrations. The ground rules are already established; the characters already exist. You don't have to bring the characters to life, but you do have to make them more convincing.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Life
  • You
  • Rules

• In Bombay, we have a fine concert hall. I think it is high time we built venues in Delhi and Calcutta, not only for western music, but also Indian music. It doesn't matter which party is in power; don't you think the capital of India should have a concert hall?

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Time
  • Music
  • Power

• The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.

  

  E. B. White
  • Time
  • War
  • Father

• Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Beautiful
  • Growth
  • Building

• For me, 'Rent' was all about coming out of myself, finding out who I was, learning the power I could have as a performer.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Power
  • Learning
  • Myself

• Every film is hard to fund.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Film
  • Hard
  • Fund

• Whether running, biking, swimming, or dancing, I just like to always be on the move.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Running
  • Like
  • Always

• Man was created as a being who should constantly keep improving, a being who on reaching one goal sets a higher one.

  

  Ralph Ransom
  • Man
  • Goal
  • Improving

• Le bonheur est salutaire pour le corps, mais c'est le chagrin qui développe les forces de l'esprit.

  

  Marcel Proust

• When a person is haughty, he distances himself from other people and thereby deprives himself of one of life’s biggest pleasures-open, joyful communication with everyone.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • People
  • Life
  • Communication

• I must before I die, find some way to say the essential thing that is in me, that I have never said yet – a thing that is not love or hate or pity or scorn, but the very breath of life, fierce and coming from far away, bringing into human life the vastness and fearful passionless force of non-human things...

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Life
  • Hate
  • Die

• You are a beautiful person, Doctor. Clearheaded. Strong. But you seem always to be dragging your heart along the ground. From now on, little by little, you must prepare yourself to face death. If you devote all of your future energy to living, you will not be able to die well. You must begin to shift gears, a little at a time. Living and dying are, in a sense, of equal value.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Heart
  • Death
  • Energy

• It's sad to see these old buildings go because they have so many memories, and it's a real personal kind of thing when you play these places. It's part of our history just gone.

  

  Clarence Clemons
  • Real
  • History
  • Memories

• If you say, I'm living in America and I have freedom of speech but I choose not to use it because it's going to cost me, well, you're not living in freedom. You're not free.

  

  Tim Robbins
  • Freedom
  • Use
  • Speech

• So, the first thing we should introspect - are we concerned about ourselves ? All the time do we think that we are suffering, we have this problem, that problem, or this should be done, that should be done. If the attention is on that, that all the time you are worried about yourself, then you cannot break, you cannot break through this shell of your being which is under the domination of your mental selfishness or self centeredness.

  

  Nirmala Srivastava
  • Thinking
  • Love
  • Wisdom

• Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being.

  

  Georg Simmel