Immanuel Kant Quotes
[S]uppose the mind of [a] friend of humanity were clouded over with his own grief, extinguishing all sympathetic participation in the fate of others; he still has the resources to be beneficent to those suffering distress, but the distress of others does not touch him because he is sufficiently busy with his own; and now, where no inclination any longer stimulates him to it, he tears himself out of his deadly insensibility and does the action without any inclination, solely from duty.
Immanuel Kant
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The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.
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I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.
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The flesh is the surface of the unknown.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
Nate Parker
If you want, you can have a coffin made out of cardboard or wicker or papier mache. There's one like a seed pod, or you could buy one that doubles as both a bookcase and a coffin. During your life, you stand it in your living room, and then after you die, the books are taken out and your body put in their place and the whole thing buried.
Laura Wade
I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it.
Patrick Macnee
It may be true that artists adopt a flamboyant appearance, but it's also true that people who look funny get stuck with the arts.
Quentin Crisp
I want to make portraits and images. I don't know how. Out of despair, I just use paint anyway. Suddenly the things you make coagulate and take on just the shape you intend. Totally accurate marks, which are outside representational marks.
Francis Bacon
From an early age, my favorite thing to read was novels. For years, when I was writing only nonfiction, still I was reading almost exclusively novels. It's weird to be producing something that you don't consume. It feels really alienating.
Elif Batuman
With TV, came the icon, the inclusive image, the inclusive political posture or stance. (p. 191)
Marshall McLuhan
To one extent or another, then, you learn to constantly monitor your behavior, so that it conforms to the established criteria set up for sane or rational experience. You are social creatures, as the animals are. Despite many of your cherished, erroneous beliefs, your nations exist as the result of cooperation, not competition, as do all social groupings.
Jane Roberts
[S]uppose the mind of [a] friend of humanity were clouded over with his own grief, extinguishing all sympathetic participation in the fate of others; he still has the resources to be beneficent to those suffering distress, but the distress of others does not touch him because he is sufficiently busy with his own; and now, where no inclination any longer stimulates him to it, he tears himself out of his deadly insensibility and does the action without any inclination, solely from duty.
Immanuel Kant
