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Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created. ↗

— Peter Shaffer

#cannot #created #destroyed #doctor #passion

Wonder—the enthusiastic ardor for the sublimity of being, for its worthiness to be an object of knowledge—promises to become the point of departure for genuine insight only where it has reached the stage in which the subject, overwhelmed by the object, has, as it were, fused into a single point or into nothing… like the movement of hope and love toward God, which is genuine and selfless only where it has assumed the attitude of pure worship of God for his own sake. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#philosophy #theology #wonder #worship #attitude

Every man loves what he is good at. ↗

— Thomas Shadwell

#every man #good #loves #man

I think possibly the first film that has music as its leading character. ↗

— Peter Shaffer

#film #first #i #i think #leading

We do not inherit the planet from our ancestors, we borrow it from our childern. ↗

— Native American Saying

#inspirational #truth #inspirational

I was born in Liverpool in England, and I lived there for the first nine years of my life. ↗

— Peter Shaffer

#england #first #i #i was born #life

Creativity leads others to where I lead you, to an unseen beauty, so ineffable its very beauty destroys itself... ↗

— Fola

#creativity #inspirational #beauty

One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time. ↗

— Idries Shah

#beliefs #believe #come #illustrative #in the past

We're only going to be able to compete in the world if we continue to be innovative. ↗

— Jeanne Shaheen

#compete #continue #going #innovative #only

I was primarily interested in people, and people in action, so that I did nothing photographically in the sense of doing buildings for their own sake or a still life or anything like that. ↗

— Ben Shahn

#anything #buildings #did #doing #i