Sossego Duda Quotes & Sayings

When one begins to philosophize one must be first a Spinozist. The soul must bathe itself in the aether of this single substance, in
which everything one has held dear is submerged. — Hegel G W F

The life most of us live are lives we are forced to live by immediate needs, influences, and pressures. — Walter Mosley

I'm not rigid about directorial changes: I judge them on a case-by-case basis. In the case of a play whose text is widely familiar, I'm open to drastic changes that may alter the author's meaning, perhaps even considerably. If the results don't work, then I say so. — Terry Teachout

In the sacred fact of obligation you touch the immutable, and lay hold, as it were, on the eternities. At the very center of your being, there is a fixed element, and that of a kind or degree essentially sovereign. A standard is set up in your very thought, by which a great part of your questions are determined, and about which your otherwise random thoughts may settle into order and law. — Horace Bushnell

Fire will attract more attention than any other cry for help. — Jean-Michel Basquiat

My experience is that the absence of firm prior resolve results in regular rationalization. — John Piper

I am very worried about this concentration of power, and it's not only because of Erdogan. We have the ballot box, but we don't have the culture of democracy. The government says: You see, we have the majority, we're entitled to do anything we want. But that's not democracy, that's majoritarianism. — Elif Safak

I was honored today with having a few stones, dirt, rotten eggs, and pieces of dead cat thrown at me — George Whitefield