#era

Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#comparison #intolerance #itself #other #people

The beliefs and behaviour of the Restoration reflect the theories of society put forward by Thomas Hobbes in The Leviathan, which was written in exile in Paris and published in 1651. Like many texts of the time, The Leviathan is an allegory. It recalls mediaeval rather than Renaissance thinking. The leviathan is the Commonwealth, society as a total organism, in which the individual is the absolute subject of state control, represented by the monarch. Man - motivated by self-interest - is acquisitive and lacks codes of behaviour. Hence the necessity for a strong controlling state, 'an artificial man', to keep discord at bay. Self-interest and stability become the keynotes of British society after 1660, the voice of the new middle-class bourgeoisie making itself heard more and more in the expression of values, ideals, and ethics. ↗

— Ronald Carter

#motivational

Into the sky to win or die. ↗

— Christopher Paolini

#fantasy #movie #movies

Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me. ↗

— Tim Burton

#expensive #form #like #me #therapy

An honest bookstore would post the following sign above its 'self-help' section: 'For true self-help, please visit our philosophy, literature, history and science sections, find yourself a good book, read it, and think about it. ↗

— Roger Ebert

#bookstores #history #literature #philosophy #reading

One cannot read a novel without ascribing to the heroine the traits of the one we love. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#literature #change

Be Your Best Without the Stress!Be the director and actor in your movie, called My Life. ↗

— Katrina Radke

#olympic-swimmer #therapist #motivational

And remember, the truth that once was spoken: To love another person is to see the face of God. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#musical #love

The first demand any work of art makes upon us is surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way. (There is no good asking first whether the work before you deserves such a surrender, for until you have surrendered you cannot possibly find out.) ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#criticism #literature #reading #art

Even things in a book-case change if they are alive; we find ourselves wanting to meet them again; we find them altered ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#change