Quotes About Engagement

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of man.

great literature is literature that speaks to deep, fundamental human truths and experience in a way that is relatable to the reader and that may provoke engagement or facilitate insight into these truths and experiences. If these truths and experiences are about breaches of the normal, then surely horror has a place in literature, and in facts may proffer deep engagement with the most profound aspects of our existence. Sometimes only horror can say what needs to be said.

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We have no future any more. All we can do is entertain ourselves by conversing.

I want to live my life, not record it.

Do you remember . . . ? someone's always asking and someone always does.

Do you remember?' Someone's always asking and someone else, always does

I don't "take a lot of mess." I have no tolerance for people who are not thinking deeply about things. I have no tolerance for the kind of small talk that people need to fill silence, and I have no tolerance for people not being a part of the world and being in it and trying to change it.

It was her, something about her- whenever she did something that felt like a raw invitation, he simply went mad in his effort to take up the gauntlet.

We must say yes to the gospel, and that yes is manifested in life as lived daily; or we can say no even by our inactivity.

Au fond, ce qui serait honnête, ce serait de remplacer le mur de ciment par un mur de papier, de mots, de cahiers: les passants pourraient lire ou déchirer, et s'ils déchiraient mes pages, nous serions enfin face à face; écrire, c'est ma façon d'être silencieux.

On ne passe pas de la vision d'un spectacle à une compréhension du monde et d'une compréhension intellectuelle à une décision d'action.

L'hypothèse d'une rencontre........l'hypothèse d'une réponse l'hypothèse de quelqu'un

Un livre a toujours deux auteurs : celui qui l'écrit et celui qui le lit.

When you get in the mud with a pig, you get dirty and the pig gets happy.

it's easier and more profitable to keep selling outrage than build any bridges.

If you're talking about what you did yesterday, you're not doing much today.

And here is the alternative in which man risks himself, even if almost unconsciously: either you face reality wide open, loyally, with the bright eyes of a child, calling a spade a spade, embracing its entire presence, even its meaning; either this, or you place yourself in front of reality, defend yourself against it, almost with your arms flung in front of your eyes to ward off unwelcomed and unexpected blows.

It is the religious sense – a "radical engagement of the self with life" – that alone enables us to fulfil the promise of the scripture that we might have life and might have it more abundantly. How sad it is that our quest for self-mastery and a widespread sense of emptiness and loss-of-meaning go hand-in-hand, yet we often fail to see the connection.

The truly interesting question for man is neither logic, a fascinating game, nor demonstration, an inviting curiosity. Rather, the intriguing problem for man is how to adhere to reality, to become aware of reality.

Tu proponi il tuo sguardo alla realtà. Se non proponi te stessa, proponi una menzogna, un'astrazione.

2. Seconda urgenza: il passato può essere proposto ai giovani solo se è presentato dentro un vissuto presente

I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.