#dee

Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts. ↗

— Allan Bloom

#deeds #form #great #life #lived

Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#any #art #beyond #death #different

We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#cannot #deeply #enough #enough people #familiar

My father knew the charming side of my mother, and my mother thought that he was attentive and pleasant and was an architect, which was a respectable profession, but I don't think that they actually got to know one another deeply. ↗

— Christopher Durang

#another #architect #attentive #charming #deeply

Many of the technologies that are now racing ahead most rapidly, replacing human workers in factories and offices with machines, making stockholders richer and workers poorer, are indeed tending to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#ahead #distribution #existing #factories #human

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense. ↗

— Amelia Earhart

#better #burn #deed #far #far away

I feel that the Christian experience and the Jewish one have much to give each other. If this open society continues and there is no return to political anti-Semitism, then this encounter, deeper than any theology, may happen. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#any #christian #continues #deeper #each

Most terrorists are people deeply concerned by what they see as social, political, or religious injustice and hypocrisy, and the immediate grounds for their terrorism is often retaliation for an action of the United States. ↗

— William Blum

#concerned #deeply #grounds #hypocrisy #immediate

When I'm writing a book, you can't think about your audience. You're going to be in big trouble if you think about it. You're got to write from deep inside. ↗

— Judy Blume

#audience #big #book #deep #deep inside

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#comfort #deemed #fit #love #scholar