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When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#art

If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint. ↗

— Edward Hopper

#inadequacy-of-words #painting #power-of-words #self-expression #art

Very much indeed of what we call moral education is such an artificial modification and perversion of instinct; pugnacity is trained into courageous self-sacrifice, and suppressed sexuality into religious emotion. ↗

— H.G. Wells

#courage

The wide world is full of people wanting help, Jon. Would that some could find the courage to help themselves. - Lord Commander Mormont ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#george-r-r-martin #jon-snow #lord-commander-mormont #song-of-ice-and-fire #courage

It was queer how sometimes a child's innocent eyes can see things that grown men are blind to. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#game-of-thrones #reality #truth #courage

You can't really know what you are made of until you are tested. ↗

— O.R. Melling

#tests #the-book-of-dreams #courage

He gives him of that which is alive in him; he gives him of his joy, of his interest, of his understanding, of his knowledge, of his humor, of his sadness -- of all expressions and manifestations of that which is alive in him. In thus giving of his life, he enriches the other person, he enhances the other's sense of aliveness by enhancing his own sense of aliveness. He does not give in order to receive; giving is in itself exquisite joy. But in giving he cannot help bringing something to life in the other person, and this which is brought to life reflects back to him. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#art

If you don't listen to the question entirely, then you are going to revise your answers frequently. ↗

— Toba Beta

#the-art-of-listening-question #art

Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism. ↗

— Criss Jami

#absurdity #art #artist #ecstasy #experiment

Every man has forgotten who he is. One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God; but thou shalt not know thyself. We are all under the same mental calamity; we have all forgotten our names. We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call common sense and rationality and practicality and positivism only means that for certain dead levels of our life we forget that we have forgotten. All that we call spirit and art and ecstasy only means that for one awful moment we remember that we forget. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#philosophy-of-life #theology #art