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"I cannot forgive Descartes. In all his philosophy he would have been quite willing to dispense with God. But he had to make Him give a fillip to set the world in motion; beyond this, he has no further need of God."
"To ridicule philosophy is truly philosophical. [Fr., Se moquer de la philosophie c'est vraiment philosophe.]"
"To scorn philosophy is truly to philosophize."
"Making fun of philosophy is really philosophising."
"Pain sure does bring out the best in people, doesn't it?"
"Ain't it hard when you discover that, he wasn't really where it's at, after he took from you everything he could steal. How does it feel?"
"Don't put my faith in nobody, not even a scientist."
"Is your money that good, will it buy you forgiveness?"
"Nothing is better, nothing is best, take heed of this and get plenty of rest."
"The enemy is subtle, how be it we are so deceived, when truth's in our hearts and we still don't believe."
"How many times must a man look up, before he can see the sky?"
"When you have creative people, you have to let them do their thing. You have to resist the urge to be too efficient, you have to resist the urge to work to a certain budget and schedule - other than the fact that things have to end. It's harder work to produce this way but my philosophy is that you have to let it be creatively chaotic and let it find its place. When creative people are on to something, you know it and you have to allow it to happen. You can't set a schedule for that."
"One of my central philosophies is to be creatively driven so I have to be extraordinarily creative in the way I get things done and I have to be really flexible. Striving for the best creativity can be a really moving target if you're trying to budget anything because if you come up with a better idea for something and it's going to make the movie stronger then you have to do it. And that's what I do. The difficulty is that you have to use more judgement as a producer then you might in other places. I have to make unbelievably great creative decisions."
"I found the key to the universe in the engine of an old parked car."
"Out of the dragon's claws and into the fire, there's a moment in every man's life when he must decide what is wrong and what is right."
"The self-styled practical man of affairs who pooh-poohs philosophy as a lot of windy notions is himself a pragmatist or a positivist, and a bad one at that, since he has given no thought to his position."
"Philosophy is man’s expression of curiosity about everything and his attempt to make sense of the world primarily through his intellect."
"A novel is never anything but a philosophy expressed in images. And in a good novel the philosophy has disappeared into the images."
"To think is first of all to create a world (or to limit one's own world, which comes to the same thing)."
"Only in mathematics and physics was I, through self-study, far beyond the school curriculum, and also with regard to philosophy as it was taught in the school curriculum."
