"Ask Anthony Hopkins how he makes his characters come to life and he just shrugs. I don't know. If I knew, I wouldn't be able to do it. As they say: Where ignorance is bliss it's folly to be wise."

-- Larry Eisenberg

#Wise Quotes #Character Quotes #Ignorance Quotes

“A true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born.”
“Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good?”
“As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part, while the new philosophies of mechanism and rationalism correspondingly increased.”

Source : RALPH ADAMS CRAM (1922). “TOWARDS THE GREAT PEACE”
“Try managing a junkie - especially if you've never been one yourself.”
“World music evokes a feeling. You don't have to think about the scene that it comes from.”
“What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive!”
“There is a vast intelligence running this world, and everything is in order; nothing is missing”
“Pythagoras took the next important step by subordinating the mere matter of nature to its essential principle of form and order, identifying the latter with reason or the soul.”

Source : James Mark Baldwin (1913). “History of Psychology: A Sketch and an Interpretation”

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