I think that in performing, everybody's path is so so different, that there's nobody where I think, "Oh my god, that's exactly what happened to me. "
Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.
Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.
Science and knowledge, especially that of philosophy, came from the Arabs into the West.
Everything that from eternity has happened in heaven and earth, the life of God and all the deeds of time simply are the struggles for Spirit to know Itself, to find Itself, be for Itself, and finally unite itself to Itself; it is alienated and divided, but only so as to be able thus to find itself and return to Itself. . . As existing in an individual form, this liberation is called 'I'; as developed to its totality, it is free Spirit; as feeling, it is Love; and as enjoyment, it is Blessedness.
We learn from history that we do not learn from history
Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.
All the music we know that's popular is actually commonly shared music that takes things that are similar about all of us.
I hope God speaks English. If I get up to heaven and have to point at a menu, I'm gonna be pissed.
The U. S. incarcerates more of its people than any nation in the world, or any nation in history.
I'd say my relation to being a woman is, I mean being a woman is whatever you want because the concept of gender is not really real, you know? And so for me it's about being comfortable in myself. It's about allowing myself to express who I am in any way that I want to, whether that be through my clothing, the way I present myself to the world, whether that be through like my gender identity and my pronouns. It's just really about allowing yourself to really be expressive and creative.