"Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend."

-- Jeff Bridges

#Thinking Quotes #Acting Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“The disturbers of happiness are our desires, our griefs, and our fears.”
“The discovery of an important need is almost as important as the invention which satisfies this need.”
“The question is, not what rights naturally belong to man, but how they may be most equally and effectually guarded in society.”
“Without the communist oppression, I am absolutely sure I would now be a local stupid professor of philosophy in Ljubljana.”
“...just being ordinary in and of itself is and expression of divinity; the truth of one's real self can be discovered through the pathway of everyday life.”
“So many times, people told me I can't do this or can't do that. My nature is that I don't listen very well. I'm very determined, and I believe in myself. My parents brought me up that way. Thank God for that. I don't let anything stand in my way.”
“We're all just in the muck trying to believe we're capable of greatness, but closer to breaking than we want to admit. And we tell ourselves stories-about ourselves,but maybe also all these stories about other people, about characters-as a way to hide from how small we are.”
“The state incurs debts for politics, war, and other higher causes and 'progress'. . . . The assumption is that the future will honour this relationship in perpetuity. The state has learned from the merchants and industrialists how to exploit credit; it defies the nation ever to let it go into bankruptcy. Alongside all swindlers the state now stands there as swindler-in-chief.”

Source : Jacob Burckhardt (2012). “Judgements on History and Historians”, p.188, Routledge

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