Shakespeare said, nothing is either good nor bad but thinking makes it so.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we talk to ourselves... he may teach us how to accept change in ourselves as in others, and perhaps even the final form of change.
In Shakespearean tragedy the main source of the convulsion which produces suffering and death is never good: good contributes to this convulsion only from its tragic implication with its opposite in one and the same character.
Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think.
Was there ever such stuff as great as part of Shakespeare? Only one must not say so! But what think you? - What? - Is there not sad stuff? What? - What?
No act is of itself either good or bad. Only its place in the order of things makes it good or bad.
I felt a little green, because Shakespeare writes the thought process within the text; it was tricky not to think of what to say and then say it, and instead just deliver the lines.
Shakespeare teaches you how to act. You come out of this process as a better actor. It's just the nature of the words he writes.
Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
With Shakespeare, there's no subtext; you're speaking exactly what you're thinking constantly.