God is a wider consciousness than we are, a pure intelligence, spiritual life and actuality. He is neither one nor many, neither man nor spirit. Such predicates belong only to finite beings.

Science ... is organized common sense.

The state is the nursing mother of human culture.

Life appears in a vast variety and innumerable succession of individual forms, since the most salient character of the universe is just that it ceaselessly gives birth to living individuals.

Our obligation to the will of God is our obligation to the laws of practical reason.

Metaphysics is the clearing house for all fundamental philosophical problems.

The only religion which seems to have a function in time of war is the tribal religion which invokes a God as the exclusive protector of the nation which calls upon him.

God is the Absolute Idea, a circle that returns upon itself, not a straight line projected indefinitely.

Might does not make right, but right demands that those who hold to it should defend it with all their might.

You can't rest on yesterday's growth. You must be dedicated to growing today... and every day.

To pretend is to know oneself.

In some sense, I'm a romantic. I like the idea of organic history and tradition.

Economically, it’s more expensive to make movies. I hope digital movies change that.

Altruism is innate, but it's not instinctual. Everybody's wired for it, but a switch has to be flipped.

I don't think my brand of self-confidence and self-assuredness can come from an outside source. It's got to come from me.

Life is very marvelous... and to the wonders of the earth there is no end appointed.

It's not a problem. There are people out there with much worse problems than mine."-Cynthia "Doesn't make yours any more fun to bear."-Liza "No. But it does help with the self-pity."- Cynthia

It is safer to be silent than to reveal one's secret to any one, and telling him not to mention it.

don't mean to sound weird but I get so immersed in the source material when I'm working on a movie that I kind of lose the line between what I thought of and what was in the book.