#phil

It's kind of not about the quality of the art, as much as this is what I love doing and I'd have a worse time doing anything else. That's kind of as far as I think in terms of philosophy. ↗

— Jonny Greenwood

#anything #art #as far as #doing #else

We are what we repeatedly do. Greatness then, is not an act, but a habit ↗

— Aristotle

#life

The great Jewish scientists and philosophers of the last few generations - Spinoza, Einstein, Freud, Robert Oppenheimer and others - were natives of Europe and America. ↗

— David Ben-Gurion

#einstein #europe #few #freud #generations

And you finally get to a consensus, where you get a sense of what really ought to be done, and then they give it to me and then I draw it. I mean draw it in the sense, the philosophical sense. ↗

— Lawrence Halprin

#done #draw #finally #get #give

I need just be a bayonet, a bayonet named Diving Punishment. I wish I'd been born a storm. Or a menace. Or a single grenade. No heart, no tears, just as a terrible gale'd have been good. If [by doing this] I become that, then so be it. ↗

— Kohta Hirano

#god-s-will #personification #philosophy #regret #religion

The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#any #helps #kind #literature #more

Although I wasn't able to get a visa for Vietnam, I was able to talk with swift boat veterans to get a feel for the time and place, and I visited a tropical prison in the Philippines to get a sense of what a Vietnamese prison might have been like. ↗

— Tony Hillerman

#although #been #boat #feel #get

It's absolutely philistine not to recognize what a great book 'An American Dream' is. Norman Mailer is his own worst enemy, and if you don't catch him in a defensive position, he'll admit it. I'd really like to help that man. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#admit #american #american dream #book #catch

Strive to be authentic all the time. That's sort of my philosophy on life, which applies to acting. ↗

— Paul Guilfoyle

#applies #authentic #life #philosophy #sort

Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it. ↗

— Johann Georg Hamann

#call #fairy #fairy tale #letter #nature