Desire Quote by Philip Kitcher

Presenting Aschenbach as a composer - based on Mahler - leads to some dreadful scenes (especially those in which Aschenbach is berated by his…

— Philip Kitcher

I didn't know that Mahler would come to play so large a role, nor that music and literature and philosophy can interinanimate one another…

— Philip Kitcher

We know that he gave Aschenbach Mahler's first name, and also his facial features. So Visconti picks up on something interesting. That led me…

— Philip Kitcher

Britten's opera tends to see things in simpler terms. It portrays an Aschenbach who wants a richer form of sexual fulfillment, and who is…

— Philip Kitcher

I found a deep kinship between Mahler's recurrent attempts to confront all sides of life and to affirm himself in the face of his…

— Philip Kitcher

Using the Adagietto of Mahler's Fifth is one of the touches of pure genius in Visconti's film (even though Mahlerians complain very loudly that…

— Philip Kitcher

When you are tough on yourself, life is inevitably easy. When you are easy on yourself, life will be inevitably difficult.

— Zig Ziglar

“Life inevitably translates into time. That is why the sum total of it is called ‘a lifetime’. Freedom is the potential to spend one’s…

— Gil Scott-Heron

If one lived for ever the joys of life would inevitably in the end lose their savour. As it is, they remain perennially fresh.

— Bertrand Russell

Life will inevitably through a fork in the road, choose your direction wisely.

— Doug Hall

Life, for the most part, inevitably becomes routine, the random confluence of timing and fortune that configures its components all but forgotten. But every…

— Jonathan Tropper

And for all the richest and most successful merchants life inevitably became rather dull and niggly, and they began to imagine that this was…

— Douglas Adams