In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.

Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

When you’re doing a film and the majority of the film is cast black, for me, it’s most important to get people to view those movies as just movies, as just good movies. At the end of the day, regardless of the color of the cast, we’re all doing the same thing in this business: trying to make a good film.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

Hell is other people.

I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars – mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?

I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I’m generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we’re providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we’re doing so well on so many of these things. I think it’s important to have gratitude for that.

The great question of our time is, ‚Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?‘

Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child’s eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.

What’s real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work… men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

That’s another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it’s as if things were coming together in my mind. It’s like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering. You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it’s it’s like the act of snapping the puzzle pieces together.

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God – but to create him.

I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now?

He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

There’s something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.

The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality or whatever you like to call it, can never be answered by books, by priests, philosopher’s or saviours. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but you yourself, and that is why you must know yourself – Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self.

Whether or not I like a piece of data has very little bearing on whether or not I am likely to accept it.

Truth is a pathless land.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

If you understand the universe, you control it, in a way.

When you come to see a picture of mine, I want you to know that I’m not going to do anything that will make you uncomfortable. I want you to know that you won’t be disappointed in me.

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man’s being unable to sit still in a room.

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.

Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable.

In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

There is always another way to say the same thing that doesn’t look at all like the way you said it before. I don’t know what the reason for this is. I think it is somehow a representation of the simplicity of nature.

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

The brain is wider than the sky.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

I was gutted to leave my boyfriend at home when I started my tour, but taking my pillow was like taking a little bit of him with me.

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

A jug fills drop by drop.

When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.

When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.