Understanding a people's culture exposes their normalness without reducing their particularity. . . It renders them accessible: setting them in the frame of their own banalities, it dissolves their opacity.
Dark Error's other hidden side is truth.
The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
Wisdom is the health of the soul.
I'm religiously opposed to religion.
The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.
To love another person is to see the face of God.
I think it's an area that one writes from that is curious because it is not a clearly defined partisan one.
As a songwriter I hate this whole, 'If it's a sad song, it has to sound like a sad song thing. ' And that goes all the way back to my days with the Format. I'm an insane narcissist, so if I have to get something off my chest, I'll get something off my chest.
Nothing is a hobby - each discipline is its own world with its own high standards. Of course, every artist has 'minor works' that they do, but I don't think I have any 'minor disciplines. '
Any two particles in the universe attract each other through the gravitational interaction.