"All that is necessary to raise imbecility into what the mob regards as profundity is to lift it off the floor and put it on a platform."

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Source : George Jean Nathan, Charles Angoff (1998). “The World of George Jean Nathan: Essays, Reviews, & Commentary”, Hal Leonard Corporation

George Jean Nathan

#Stupidity Quotes #Platforms Quotes #Raises Quotes

“The thing I like most about acting is that it entertains people. Films and TV can also offer such comfort to people... TV especially, because it's in people's homes and they can watch it at home. It offers them insights into different cultures and ideas, which I think is great.”
“The art of injudicious reading, the art of miscellaneous reading which every normal man ought to cultivate, is a very fine and satisfactory art; for the best guide to books is a book itself. It clasps hands with a thousand other books.”

Source : Maurice Francis Egan (1922). “Confessions of a Book-lover”
“Art is not communicative, art is not reflexive. Art, science, philosophy are neither contemplative, neither reflexive, nor communicative. They are creative, that's all.”
“There is no structural organization of society which can bring about the coming of the Kingdom of God on earth since all systems can be perverted by the selfishness of man. The Malvern Manifesto: Drawn up by a Conference of the Province of York, January 10, 1941; signed for the Conference by Temple, then Archbishop of York .”
“No one knows how it is that with one glance a boy can break through into a girl's heart.”

Source : Nancy Thayer (2014). “Morning”, p.47, Ballantine Books
“The cause of the riots were the rioters”
“Mathematicians are born, not made.”
“I have stared into the light and you are all my shadows.”

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