"I love men, the restlessness of their corrupted souls, the way they hide their heavy, murderous hearts, their sudden delicacies and small shocking acts of tenderness."

-- Steve Almond

#Heart Quotes #Men Quotes #Soul Quotes

“To theology, ... only what it holds sacred is true, whereas to philosophy, only what holds true is sacred.”

Source : Ludwig Feuerbach (1967). “Lectures on the essence of religion”
“I can easily conceive, most Holy Father, that as soon as some people learn that in this book which I have written concerning the revolutions of the heavenly bodies, I ascribe certain motions to the Earth, they will cry out at once that I and my theory should be rejected.”
“Whatever necessity lays upon thee, endure; whatever she commands, do.”
“People always ask me if I hate the nuns. Do I make my movies extra dirty to piss them off? I always say no, that's not the point. To a Catholic, a movie is only dirty if it makes you want to have sex more. If it makes you feel sick, disgusted, ashamed of your own body, then it's not a dirty movie at all. It's a Catholic movie. And I make very Catholic movies.”
“So it was a thing that my mother always taught me to go for your goals and never give up no matter what they are, and I started believing that later on in life.”
“We have a long way to go before we are able to hear the voices of everyone on earth, but I believe that providing voices and building bridges is essential for the World Peace we all wish for.”
“My sense of the family history is somewhat sketchy, because my mother kept a great deal to herself.”
“Here's an easy way to see if a war movie is being truthful: If you see an explosion on a faraway hillside and the sound of the explosion and the detonation of the bomb happen at the same time - if they're putting the sound and the vision together in the same moment - they're going toward our cultural understanding of war, not the reality of war.”

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