The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.

I like to point out that people very often confuse the idea that truth is subjective with the fact that truth is perishable.

People like nonfiction presented to them in a certain way, so that they don't have to think about whether it's true or not. They like it to have that imprimatur of respectability, of genuineness.

They say seeing is believing, but the opposite is true. Believing is seeing.

I'm really interested in self-deception. Really interested in how people live in bubble universes. How people can fail to see the seemingly obvious.

My stuff always starts with interviews. I start interviewing people, and then slowly but surely, a movie insinuates itself.

Everything is a reenactment. We are reenacting the world in the mind. The world is not inside there. It does not reside in the gray matter of the brain.

What is it that angers us?... We have been tricked. In essence, we have been lied to. The problem is not that the photograph has been manipulated, but that we have been manipulated by the photograph.

I think calling someone a character is a compliment.

The imprimatur of truthfulness does not guarantee truthfulness. People should know better. But they don't.

Fatigue is here, in my body, in my legs and eyes. That is what gets you in the end. Faith is only a word, embroidered.

How can a man value any other thing than his own existence?

Is this the part where you say if I hurt her, you'll kill me?" "No" Simon said, "If you hurt Clary she's quite capable of killing you herself. Possibly with a variety of weapons.

My father's parents were from Sardinia and my mother's from Barcelona.

Our drives are reducible to the will to power. The will to power is the ultimate fact at which we arrive.

The god excuse, the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument.

It takes a profound hypocrisy to try to reconcile for others things that you can't reconcile for yourself.

Don't wish for bricks when you can build from stone.

Pure love ... knows that only one thing is needed to please God: to do even the smallest things out of great love - love, and always love.

We don't really think that man is that immoral, we don't think that man of his own nature would run around...fighting wars and building napalm bombs...so maybe there's something else going on