When you talk about 'doing the work', that's the work I'm interested in. What can I contribute as a human being?
There are days like any normal human being where I wake up and I don't feel like going to work.
Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being.
I'm constantly intimidated by Shakespeare's work. Trying to decipher what he's saying and holding on to that thought - not just as an actor, but as a human being - is a rigour.
We human beings do a lot of dumb things, and war is certainly the dumbest.
It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.
All in the Family was intellectual; it was art.
I'm not from a music family at all.
I grew up in a great family.
My family is very theatrical.
Home is where my family is.
Everybody in my family are doctors.
Not without deep pain do we admit to ourselves that the artists of all ages have in their highest flights carried to heavenly transfiguration precisely those conceptions that we now recognize as false: they are the glorifiers of the religious and phi...
Humans, as a rule, don't like mad people unless they are good at painting, and only then once they are dead. But the definition of mad, on Earth, seems to be very unclear and inconsistent. What is perfectly sane in one era turns out to be insane in a...
A human being is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a relation that relates itself to itself or is the relation's relating itself to itself in the relation; the self is not the relation but is the relati...
She waited with Billy Slick while Carrot went on the errand, and for something to say, she said, ‘Billy Slick doesn’t sound much like a goblin name?’ Billy made a face. ‘Too right! Granny calls me Of the Wind Regretfully Blown. What kind of n...
["F]or it's not possible," [Socrates] said, "for anybody to experience a greater evil than hating arguments. Hatred of arguments and hatred of human beings come about in the same way. For hatred of human beings arises from artlessly trusting somebody...
To emancipate woman is to refuse to confine her to the relations she bears to man, not to deny them to her; let her have her independent existence and she will continue nonetheless to exist for him also: mutually recognising each other as subject, ea...
The winds of the heavens shift suddenly; so does human fate.
What is love, Mikayel? Isn't it the most irrational of all human emotions? And the one most forbidden?
The ideas of the moral order and of God belong to the ineradicable substrate of the human soul.
