#elves

Let us hold our discussion together in our own persons, making trial of the truth and of ourselves. ↗

— Protagoras

#hold #let us #making #our #ourselves

It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#apart #body #chained #compelled #creature

A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#ourselves #recreate #sufficient #weather #world

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#art #emerge #know #only #ourselves

It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#because #dead #dying #faint #grows

I'm a big believer in the notion that our greatest potential lies in our darkest parts. To a certain extent it's only in facing those parts of ourselves that we can truly grow, and I think that's true of all of the characters I've played, certainly in the past few years. ↗

— Zachary Quinto

#big #big believer #certain #certain extent #certainly

Again, as a gay man I look at that and say there's a hopelessness that surrounds it, but as a human being I look at it and say 'Why? Where's this disparity coming from, and why can't we as a culture and society dig deeper to examine that?' We're terrified of facing ourselves. ↗

— Zachary Quinto

#being #coming #culture #deeper #dig

It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends. ↗

— Jean Racine

#among #common #friends #maxim #old

It's mainly about working hard and proving to people you're serious about it, and stretching yourself and learning. The mistake a lot of actors make, particularly young ones, is allowing themselves to feel that they're the finished articles, the bee's knees, and it's not true. ↗

— Daniel Radcliffe

#allowing #articles #bee #feel #finished

Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires. ↗

— Eric S. Raymond

#berkeley #corporate #empires #hackers #liked