More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.
From Simone Weil
Humility is attentive patience.
Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.
Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe.
Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.
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