“When you listen carefully to the soundscape it becomes quite miraculous.” Quote by R. Murray Schafer
“It must inquire not merely about the circumstances of the time in general, but in particular about the writer's position with regard to these things, the interests and motives, the leading ideas of his literary activity.” IdeasInterestPositionParticularCircumstancesActivityRegardMotive Author:Ferdinand Christian Baur
“Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.” PhilosophyStupidDumb Author:Ferdinand Christian Baur
“The greater the conceptual significance of a literary product, the more it should be assumed that it is based on an idea that determines the whole, and that the deeper consciousness of the time to which it belongs is reflected in it.” ShouldIdeasWholeConsciousnessGreaterProductsDetermineDeeperSignificance Author:Ferdinand Christian Baur
“It rests with every professor of the religion of Jesus to settle within himself to which of the two religions, that of Jesus or that of Paul, he will adhere.” TwoJesusSettlingProfessorsTwo Religions Author:Ferdinand Christian Baur
“A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.” GovernmentPoliticalPoliticsPoliticianConservativeOrganizedHypocrisy Author:Benjamin Disraeli
“What kind of authority can there be for an 'Apostle' who, unlike the other Apostles, had never been prepared for the Apostolic office in Jesus' own school but had only later dared to claim the Apostolic office on the basis of his own authority? The only question comes to be how the apostle Paul appears in his Epistles to be so indifferent to the historical facts of the life of Jesus....He bears himself but little like a disciple who has received the doctrines and the principles which he preaches from the Master whose name he bears.” KindLittlesFactsSchoolJesusNamesPrinciplesMastersBearsOfficeAuthorityBasesClaimsHistoricalPreparedDoctrineIndifferentDiscipleApostlesApostolicApostle PaulHistorical Facts Author:Ferdinand Christian Baur
“We're a strange animal, so often destroying what we love for selfish ends, and yet tantalized by the sense that there are other choices if only we had strength to make them. In the politics of 400 years ago, we find the same questions we battle with today.” IfsYearsEndsTodayChoicesAnimalStrangeBattleYears AgoSelfishDestroying Author:Roland Joffe
“Conventionally, one looks at history as something of the past. But after Einstein, who knows what is in the past and what is in the present?” KnowsLooksPast Author:Roland Joffe
“Eventually, the tribe developed so much confidence in me that they invited me to be their chieftain.” TribesInvited Author:Roland Joffe
“I don't really say much about reviewers. It's a very tough job to get all of the depth of a movie all at once.” JobsToughDepthReviewers Author:Roland Joffe