Delirios Pienso Quotes & Sayings

You do develop a taste as an actress: Chekhov, Ayckbourn: it's the combination of comedy and human drama. I would never want to do anything without comedy. — Katherine Parkinson

As if the aim of a beautiful view is to create a great artist or to make the lonely to forget his loneliness or just to create a great ease in the tired minds of every creature! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The decline of violence may owe something to an expansion of empathy, but it also owes much to harder-boiled faculties like prudence, reason, fairness, self-control, norms and taboos, and conceptions of human rights. This — Steven Pinker

It is indisputable that the being whose capacities of enjoyment are low, has the greatest chance of having them fully satisfied; and a highly endowed being will always feel that any happiness which he can look for, as the world is constituted, is imperfect. But he can learn to bear its imperfections, if they are at all bearable; and they will not make him envy the being who is indeed unconscious of the imperfections, but only because he feels not at all the good which those imperfections qualify.
It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, is of a different opinion, it is only because they only know their own side of the question. — John Stuart Mill

True contentment comes with empathy. — Tim Finn

It is the honey which makes us cruel enough to ignore the death of a bee — Munia Khan

Only in the tamed trembling of a poem, I had believed
Some kindness might survive — Rodney Jones

Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris — Thucydides

don't sulk. you're acting just like a man. — Janet Fitch

It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead. — Kurt Vonnegut

Will your woman's heart endanger us?" he asked me. "Tell me now."
"What does my woman's heart have to do with anything? — Catherine M. Wilson

Mystical writing was indeed the forerunner of today's radical theology and deconstruction ...
Jacques Derrida can be described as an intellectual subversive whose work leads to the view that any text may be interpreted to mean almost anything, and as a mystic will.
Well, yes, mystical writing is indeed politically and linguistically subversive and always was so the mystic seeks to create an effect of religious happiness by liberating religious language from the Babylonian captivity of metaphysics. When the writing does succeed in melting God and the soul down into each other, the effect of happiness is astonishing. — Don Cupitt

I studied literature and Italian at Yale. I wrote my thesis about Italo Svevo, one of my heroes. — Nathaniel Rich