Becket 1964 Quotes & Sayings

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 philosophical errors of humanity, and they could not have done this without their belief in the absolute truth of these errors. Now if the belief in such truth generally diminishes, if the rainbow colors at the outermost ends of human knowing and imagining fade: then the species of art that, like the Divina commedia, Raphael's pictures, Michelangelo's frescoes, the Gothic cathedrals, presupposes not only a cosmic, but also a metaphysical significance for art objects can never blossom again. A touching tale will come of this, that there was once such an art, such belief by artists. — Friedrich Nietzsche

It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another. — Mary Shelley

The teenage female has less demand to perform and more resources to attract love. Her body and mind are more genetic gifts. — Warren Farrell

I'm not saying that the gas chambers didn't exist. I couldn't see them myself. — Jean-Marie Le Pen

One who is constantly resting within himself is capable of endless activity. — Jaggi Vasudev

Nobody could ever say as many terrible things to me as I say to myself. — Sarah Paulson

Russians understand the rhythm of despair. — Suzanne Massie