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“Naïveté, thy name is me.”

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Lauren Bacall, born on September 16, 1924, was an iconic American film actress. Renowned for her charm and acting prowess, she rose to fame with her role in 'To Have and Have Not' and other classic films. more

“He [Bogie] had tremendous character and a great sense of honor and would not tolerate lies, even if they asked him what he thought of a movie. We were once at a screening at somebody's house, I forget whose, and they ran a movie that he was in, that he never thought much of. Afterward, the producer asked what he thought of it, and Bogie said "I think it's a crock." And this producer was horrified! He was about to release the movie, and he said to Bogie "Why would you say that?!" Bogie shrugged and said "Then don't ask me." He never played the schmoozing game. He was not into that at all.”

Ifs Thinking Said Character Lying Asks Games House Forget Honor Producers Release Ask Me Ran Tolerate Screening Schmoozing

Author:Lauren Bacall

“Very few people want to hear the truth. Bogie was like that, my mother was like that, and I'm like that. I believe in the truth, and I believe in saying what you think. Why not? Do you have to go around whispering all the time or playing a game with people? I just don't believe in that. So I'm not the most adored person on the face of the earth.”

People Thinking Want Believe Persons Earth Faces Mother Games I Believe Don't Believe I Believe In Why Not Whispering

Author:Lauren Bacall

“The times in which we're currently living unfortunately, our great leader [George W. Bush] is such a disaster and the entire country is in disastrous shape because of him. It's very frightening, actually, to think that this country has become what it's become and that so many people voted for a man like that. It's terrifying.”

People Thinking Men Country Leader Shapes Disaster Frightening Great Leader

Author:Lauren Bacall

“Destiny is not a strange power which determines what shall happen to me. It is myself as given, formed by nature, history, and myself. My destiny is the basis of my freedom; my freedom participates in shaping my destiny.”

Happens Given Destiny Strange Bases Determine My Destiny

Book:Systematic Theology

Source: Systematic Theology

“The existential attitude is one of involvement in contrast to a merely theoretical or detached attitude. "Existential" in this sense can be defined as participating in a situation, especially a cognitive situation, with the whole of one's existence.”

Whole Existence Attitude Situation Defined Existentialism Contrast Existential Theoretical Involvement Detached Participating Cognitive

Book:Writings on religion

Source: Writings on religion

“One of the unfortunate consequences of the intellectualization of man's spiritual life was that the word "spirit" was lost and replaced by mind or intellect, and that the element of vitality which is present in "spirit" was separated and interpreted as an independent biological force. Man was divided into a bloodless intellect and a meaningless vitality. The middle ground between them, the spiritual soul, in which vitality and intentionality are united, was dropped.”

Source: Writings on religion

“[American] conformism might approximate collectivism, not so much in economic respects, and not too much in political respects, but very much in the pattern of daily life and thought. Whether this will happen or not, and if it does to what degree, is partly dependent on the power of resistance in those who represent the opposite pole of the courage to be, the courage to be as oneself.”

Ifs Doe Might Happens Political Too Much Economic Degrees Opposites Patterns Oneself Resistance Dependent Daily Life Collectivism

Author:Paul Tillich

“Individualism is the self-affirmation of the individual self as individual self without regard to its participation in its world. As such it is the opposite of collectivism, the self affirmation of the self as part of a larger whole without regard to its character as an individual self.”

World Self Whole Character Individual Opposites Regard Individualism Affirmation Participation Collectivism Self Affirmation

Book:Writings on religion

Source: Writings on religion

“The courage to be as oneself within the atmosphere of Enlightenment is the courage to affirm oneself as a bridge from a lower to a higher state of rationality. It is obvious that this kind of courage to be must become conformist the moment its revolutionary attack on that which contradicts reason has ceased, namely in the victorious bourgeoisie.”

Kind States Reason Moments Higher Enlightenment Oneself Obvious Bridges Atmosphere Revolutionary Rationality Bourgeoisie Conformist

Author:Paul Tillich

“In a man like Friedrich von Schlegel the courage to be as an individual self produced complete neglect of participation, but it also produced, in reaction to the emptiness of this self-affirmation, the desire to return to a collective. Schlegel, and with him many extreme individualists in the last hundred years, became Roman Catholics. The courage to be as oneself broke down, and one turned to an institutional embodiment of the courage to be as a part.”

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