Saturday, March 11, 2006
Quotes PAGE
Spoon boy: Do not try and bend the spoon. That's impossible. Instead... only try to realize the truth.
Neo: What truth? ..
Spoon boy: There is no spoon.
Neo: There is no spoon?
Spoon boy: Then you'll see, that it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. Leo Tolstoy
“Sean: Real loss is only possible when you love something more than you love yourself.”
Good Will Hunting quotes
Nefretiri: Oh Moses, Moses, you stubborn, splendid, adorable fool!
“A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the”
Buddha quotes
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly. Buddha
Mouse: To deny our own impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human.
Oracle: Do you know what that means? [points to a banner] Oracle: It means know thy self. I wanna tell you a little secret, being the one is just like being in love. No one needs to tell you you are in love, you just know it, through and through.
Oracle: You're cuter than I thought. I can see why she likes you.
Neo: Who?
Oracle: Not too bright, though.
Achilles' remorse for his hand in Patroclus death:
"I sat by the ships, a useless burden,though there are better in Assembly—so may this strife of men and gods be done with." Iliad Lines 104-107
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows. Buddha
On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him. Buddha
Morpheus: There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.
Morpheus: You've been living in a dream world, Neo
Morpheus: What is "real"? How do you define "real"?
Morpheus: You have to let it all go, Neo. Fear, doubt, and disbelief. Free your mind
Morpheus: This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.
Morpheus: I've seen an agent punched through a concrete wall. Men have emptied entire clips at them and hit nothing but air, yet their strength and their speed are still based in a world that is built on rules. Because of that, they will never be as strong or as fast as you can be.
Morpheus: What is the Matrix? Control.
Neo: Okey dokey.. free my mind. Right, no problem, free my mind, free my mind, no problem, right...
Cypher: I'm tired, Trinity. Tired of this war, tired of fighting... I'm tired of the ship, being cold, eating the same goddamn goop everyday...
Trinity: I know why you're here, Neo. I know what you've been doing... why you hardly sleep, why you live alone, and why night after night, you sit by your computer. You're looking for him. I know because I was once looking for the same thing. And when he found me, he told me I wasn't really looking for him. I was looking for an answer. It's the question, Neo. It's the question that drives us. It's the question that brought you here. You know the question, just as I did. Neo: What is the Matrix? Trinity: The answer is out there, Neo, and it's looking for you, and it will find you if you want it to.
Commander Lock: Not everyone believes what you do Morpheus.
Morpheus: My beliefs do not require them to.
Morpheus: I have dreamed a dream, but now that dream is gone from me.
Morpheus: What can you see, Neo?
Neo: It's strange, the code is somehow different.
Trinity: Is that good for us or bad for us?
Neo: Well, it looks like every floor is wired with explosives.
Trinity: Bad for us.
Neo: But if you already know, how can I make a choice?
The Oracle: Because you didn't come here to make a choice, you've already made it. You're here to try to understand why you made it.
Neo: Why are you here?
The Oracle: Same reason. I love candy.
Councillor Harmann: I hate sleeping. I figured, I've slept the first eleven years of my life away, so now I'm just making up for it.
The Architect: Hope, it is the quintessential human delusion, simultaneously the source of your greatest strength, and your greatest weakness.
Ghost: Well it's nice to have something to look forward to.
Niobe: Indeed it is.
The Oracle: Everything that has a beginning has an end. I see the end coming, I see the darkness spreading. I see death... and you are all that stands in his way. If you cannot stop him tonight, then I fear tomorrow will never come.
Morpheus: You've never believed in The One.
Niobe: I still don't. I believe in him.
Trinity: If you tell me we'll make it I'll believe you.
Neo: We'll make it. We have to.
About Neo]
Morpheus: I don't know what he can do to save us. But I do know that as long as there is a single breath left in his body he will not give up and neither can we.
Agent Smith: Can you feel it Mr. Anderson? Closing in on you? Oh I can, I really should thank you after all. It was, after all, it was your life that taught me the purpose of all life. Purpose of life is to end.
[After Neo ends up back at the same subway stop after running down the track]
Neo: Shit.
Seraph: Did you always know?
The Oracle: Oh, no. No, I didn't. But I believed... I believed!
Neo: It's been an honor, sir.
Morpheus: No. The honor is still mine.
The Architect: You played a very dangerous game.
The Oracle: Change always is.
Merovingian: You are really ready to die for this man?
Persephone: If she has to, she'll kill everyone of us. She's in love.
Trinity: Believe it!
A generation of men is like a generation of leaves; the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, while others the burgeoning wood brings forth - and the season of spring comes on. So of men one generation springs forth and another ceases.
Homer, The Iliad
Even when someone battles hard, there is an equal portion for one who lingers behind, and in the same honor are held both the coward and the brave man; the idle man and he who has done much meet death alike.
Homer, The Iliad
Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.
Homer, The Iliad
He knew the things that were and the things that would be and the things that had been before.
Homer, The Iliad
He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his knees when he has come back from battle and the dread fray.
Homer, The Iliad
The fates have given mankind a patient soul.
Homer, The Iliad
The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council.
Homer, The Iliad
There is a fullness of all things, even of sleep and love.
Homer, The Iliad
Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.
Homer, The
You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another lyre and song, and in another wide-sounding Zeus puts a good mind.
Homer, The Iliad
Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.
Homer, The Iliad
Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them.
Homer, The Odyssey
Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured.
Homer, The Odyssey
Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.
Homer, The Odyssey
It is equally wrong to speed a guest who does not want to go, and to keep one back who is eager. You ought to make welcome the present guest, and send forth the one who wishes to go.
Homer, The Odyssey
May the gods grant you all things which your heart desires, and may they give you a husband and a home and gracious concord, for there is nothing greater and better than this -when a husband and wife keep a household in oneness of mind, a great woe to their enemies and joy to their friends, and win high renown.
Homer, The Odyssey
Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe and move on the earth, for he believes that he will never suffer evil in the future, as long as the gods give him success and he flourishes in his strength; but when the blessed gods bring sorrows too to pass, even these he bears, against his will, with steadfast spirit, for the thoughts of earthly men are like the day which the father of gods and men brings upon them.
Homer, The Odyssey
The minds of the everlasting gods are not changed suddenly.
Homer, The Odyssey
There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.
Homer, The Odyssey
We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth.
Homer, The Odyssey
Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him.
Homer, The Odyssey
You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age.
Homer, The Odyssey
I fear those big words, Stephen said, which make us so unhappy.Ulysses
A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.Ulysses Stephen Dedalus
Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.Ulysses Stephen Dedalus
Force, hatred, history, all that. That's not life for men and women, insult and hatred. And everybody knows that it's the very opposite of that that is really life.What? says Alf.Love, says Bloom. I mean the opposite of hatred.Ulysses
British Beatitudes! … Beer, beef, business, bibles, bulldogs, battleships, buggery and bishops.Ulysses Stephen Dedalus
Conscience, that boon companion who sets a man free under the strong breastplate of innocence, that bids him on and fear not. Dante
Thou shall know by experience how salt the savor is of others' bread, and how sad a path it is to climb and descend another's stairs. Dante
In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray, Gone from the path direct. Dante
Three sparks--pride, envy, and avarice--have been kindled in all hearts. Dante
It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us. Dante
Ah, savage company; but in the church With saints, and in the taverns with the gluttons. Dante
It is always those who are ready who suffer in delays. Dante
The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come. Dante
What I saw was equal ecstasy: One universal smile it seemed of all things. Dante, paradise
The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time. Dante
The splendors that belong unto the fame of earth are but a wind, that in the same direction lasts not long. Dante
Consider what you came from: you are Greeks! You were not born to live like mindless brutes but to follow paths of excellence and knowledge. Dante
Be like a solid tower whose brave height remains unmoved by all the winds that blow; the man who lets his thoughts be turned aside by one thing or another, will lose sight of his true goal, his mind sapped of its strength. Dante
Your earthly fame is but a gust of wind that blows about, shifting this way and that, and as it changes quarter, changes name. Dante
one drop of blood is left inside my veins that does not throb: I recognize signs of the ancient flame. Dante
Go forth and preach impostures to the world, But give them truth to build on. Dantes nature
Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything. Xenophon
He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce. Xenophon
The sweetest of all sounds is praise. Xenophon
The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without being forced to do so, and remaining steadfast in the moments of greatest peril. Xenophon
There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform. Xenophon
A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind. John Maynard Keynes
Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be. John Maynard Keynes
Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent. John Maynard Keynes
In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil. John Maynard Keynes
Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older. John Maynard Keynes
Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own. John Maynard Keynes
Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others. John Maynard Keynes
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward. John Maynard Keynes
The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion. John Maynard Keynes
The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future. John Maynard Keynes
The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future. John Maynard Keynes
Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking. John Maynard Keynes
Moses: There is a beauty beyond the senses, Nefretiri. Beauty like the quiet of green valleys and still waters. Beauty of the spirit that you cannot understand.
Moses: The Lord of Hosts will do battle for us. Behold his mighty hand
Never confuse movement with action.
Ernest Hemingway
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
Ernest Hemingway
If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.
Ernest Hemingway
Let him think I am more man than I am and I will be so.
Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
Courage is grace under pressure.
Ernest Hemingway
Live life to the fullest.
Ernest Hemingway
In order to write about life, first you must live it!
Ernest Hemingway
To be a successful father there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.
Ernest Hemingway
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway
But did thee feel the earth move?
Ernest Hemingway About orgasm in women
America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds.
Ernest Hemingway
Humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride.
Ernest Hemingway
His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.
Ernest Hemingway
Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.
Ernest Hemingway
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do. Leo Tolstoy
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced. Leo Tolstoy
Boredom: the desire for desires. Leo Tolstoy
Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live. Leo Tolstoy
He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style. Leo Tolstoy
Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised. Leo Tolstoy
I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back. Leo Tolstoy
If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love. Leo Tolstoy
If you want to be happy, be. Leo Tolstoy
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you. Leo Tolstoy
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. Leo Tolstoy
Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity. Leo Tolstoy
Music is the shorthand of emotion. Leo Tolstoy
Music is the shorthand of emotion. Leo Tolstoy
Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal. Leo Tolstoy
One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken. Leo Tolstoy
Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself. Leo Tolstoy
The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life. Leo Tolstoy
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. Leo Tolstoy
True life is lived when tiny changes occur. Leo Tolstoy
We lost because we told ourselves we lost. Leo Tolstoy
Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible. Leo Tolstoy
I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.
Isaac Newton
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
Isaac Newton
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
Isaac Newton
I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Isaac Newton,
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
Isaac Newton
“My own understanding is the sole treasure I possess, and the greatest. Though infinitely small and fragile in comparison with the powers of darkness, it is still a light, my only light.”
Carl Gustav Jung quotes
“Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.”
Carl Gustav Jung quotes
“There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.”
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Carl Gustav Jung quotes
“The word ''belief'' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it -I don't need to believe it.”
Carl Gustav Jung quotes
“Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.”
Carl Gustav Jung quotes
“The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong”
Carl Gustav Jung quotes
“The unconscious mind of man sees correctly even when conscious reason is blind and impotent”
Carl Gustav Jung quotes
“The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely”
Carl Gustav Jung quotes
“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.”
Carl Gustav Jung quotes
“The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.”
Carl Gustav Jung quotes
“To be normal is the ideal aim of the unsuccessful.”
Carl Gustav Jung quotes
“It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how they are themselves”
Carl Gustav Jung quotes
“The creative mind plays with the object it loves”
Carl Gustav Jung quotes
“Intuition (is) perception via the unconscious”
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Carl Gustav Jung quotes
“Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.”
Carl Gustav Jung quotes
“The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.”
Carl Gustav Jung quotes
“One cannot live without inconsistency”
Carl Gustav Jung quotes
“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
Carl Gustav Jung quotes
“We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.”
Carl Gustav Jung quotes
“Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health”
Carl Gustav Jung quotes
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
Carl Gustav Jung quotes
“What is essential in a work of art is that it should rise far above the realm of personal life and speak to the spirit and heart of the poet as man to the spirit and heart of mankind”
Carl Gustav Jung quotes
“There is no coming to consciousness without pain.”
Carl Gustav Jung quotes
“If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.”
Carl Gustav Jung quotes
“I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God.”
Carl Gustav Jung quotes
“Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.”
Carl Gustav Jung quotes
“Error is just as important a condition of life as truth”
Carl Gustav Jung quotes
“Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.”
Carl Gustav Jung quotes
“The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that fits all cases”
Carl Gustav Jung quotes
“As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.”
Carl Gustav Jung quotes
“Everything in the unconscious seeks outward manifestation, and the personality too desires to evolve out of its unconscious conditions and to experience itself as a whole.”
Carl Gustav Jung quotes
“Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.”
Carl Gustav Jung quotes
“But, if you have nothing at all to create, then perhaps you create yourself.”
Carl Gustav Jung quotes
“Enlightenment is not imagining figures of light but making the darkness conscious.”
Carl Gustav Jung quotes
“The true leader is always led”
Carl Gustav Jung
“God is the name by which I designate all things which cross my path violently and recklessly, all things which alter my plans and intentions, and change the course of my life, for better or for worse.”
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Carl Gustav Jung quotes
“Chuckie: Oh, I don't know that. Let me tell you what I do know. Every day I come by to pick you up. And we go out we have a few drinks, and a few laughs and it's great. But you know what the best part of my day is? It's for about ten seconds from when I pull up to the curb to when I get to your door. Because I think maybe I'll get up there and I'll knock on the door and you won't be there. No goodbye, no see you later, no nothin'. Just left. I don't know much, but I know that.”
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Good Will Hunting quotes
Agent Smith: Why, Mr. Anderson? Why do you do it? Why get up? Why keep fighting? Do you believe you're fighting for something? For more that your survival? Can you tell me what it is? Do you even know? Is it freedom? Or truth? Perhaps peace? Yes? No? Could it be for love? Illusions, Mr. Anderson. Vagaries of perception. The temporary constructs of a feeble human intellect trying desperately to justify an existence that is without meaning or purpose. And all of them as artificial as the Matrix itself, although only a human mind could invent something as insipid as love. You must be able to see it, Mr. Anderson. You must know it by now. You can't win. It's pointless to keep fighting. Why, Mr. Anderson? Why? Why do you persist?
Neo: Because I choose to.
It is not possible to fight beyond your strength, even if you strive.
Homer, The Iliad
I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown.
Homer, The Iliad
Plenty to see and hear and feel yet. Feel live warm beings near you. They aren't going to get me this innings. Warm beds: warm full blooded life.Ulysses
Invocation and summary of the story of the Illiad:
"Sing, goddess, of Achilles ruinous angerWhich brought ten thousand pains to the Achaeans,And cast the souls of many stalwart heroesTo Hades, and their bodies to the dogsAnd birds of prey." Lines 1-5
Achilles, as he kills Hector:"No more entreating, dog, by knees or parents.I only wish my fury would compel meTo cut away your flesh and eat it rawFor what you've done. No one can keep the dogsOff of your head, not if they brought me ransomOf ten or twenty times as much, or more…" Iliad Lines 345-350
Achilles: "Don't be angry, Patroclus, if you learn—even though you're in Hades—I gave Hector backto his father for a worthy ransomBut I shall give a proper share to you." Iliad Lines 592-596
Mifune: If we have to give our lives, we give them hell before we do!
Trinity: Dodge this.
Neo: What truth? ..
Spoon boy: There is no spoon.
Neo: There is no spoon?
Spoon boy: Then you'll see, that it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. Leo Tolstoy
“Sean: Real loss is only possible when you love something more than you love yourself.”
Good Will Hunting quotes
Nefretiri: Oh Moses, Moses, you stubborn, splendid, adorable fool!
“A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the”
Buddha quotes
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly. Buddha
Mouse: To deny our own impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human.
Oracle: Do you know what that means? [points to a banner] Oracle: It means know thy self. I wanna tell you a little secret, being the one is just like being in love. No one needs to tell you you are in love, you just know it, through and through.
Oracle: You're cuter than I thought. I can see why she likes you.
Neo: Who?
Oracle: Not too bright, though.
Achilles' remorse for his hand in Patroclus death:
"I sat by the ships, a useless burden,though there are better in Assembly—so may this strife of men and gods be done with." Iliad Lines 104-107
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows. Buddha
On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him. Buddha
Morpheus: There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.
Morpheus: You've been living in a dream world, Neo
Morpheus: What is "real"? How do you define "real"?
Morpheus: You have to let it all go, Neo. Fear, doubt, and disbelief. Free your mind
Morpheus: This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.
Morpheus: I've seen an agent punched through a concrete wall. Men have emptied entire clips at them and hit nothing but air, yet their strength and their speed are still based in a world that is built on rules. Because of that, they will never be as strong or as fast as you can be.
Morpheus: What is the Matrix? Control.
Neo: Okey dokey.. free my mind. Right, no problem, free my mind, free my mind, no problem, right...
Cypher: I'm tired, Trinity. Tired of this war, tired of fighting... I'm tired of the ship, being cold, eating the same goddamn goop everyday...
Trinity: I know why you're here, Neo. I know what you've been doing... why you hardly sleep, why you live alone, and why night after night, you sit by your computer. You're looking for him. I know because I was once looking for the same thing. And when he found me, he told me I wasn't really looking for him. I was looking for an answer. It's the question, Neo. It's the question that drives us. It's the question that brought you here. You know the question, just as I did. Neo: What is the Matrix? Trinity: The answer is out there, Neo, and it's looking for you, and it will find you if you want it to.
Commander Lock: Not everyone believes what you do Morpheus.
Morpheus: My beliefs do not require them to.
Morpheus: I have dreamed a dream, but now that dream is gone from me.
Morpheus: What can you see, Neo?
Neo: It's strange, the code is somehow different.
Trinity: Is that good for us or bad for us?
Neo: Well, it looks like every floor is wired with explosives.
Trinity: Bad for us.
Neo: But if you already know, how can I make a choice?
The Oracle: Because you didn't come here to make a choice, you've already made it. You're here to try to understand why you made it.
Neo: Why are you here?
The Oracle: Same reason. I love candy.
Councillor Harmann: I hate sleeping. I figured, I've slept the first eleven years of my life away, so now I'm just making up for it.
The Architect: Hope, it is the quintessential human delusion, simultaneously the source of your greatest strength, and your greatest weakness.
Ghost: Well it's nice to have something to look forward to.
Niobe: Indeed it is.
The Oracle: Everything that has a beginning has an end. I see the end coming, I see the darkness spreading. I see death... and you are all that stands in his way. If you cannot stop him tonight, then I fear tomorrow will never come.
Morpheus: You've never believed in The One.
Niobe: I still don't. I believe in him.
Trinity: If you tell me we'll make it I'll believe you.
Neo: We'll make it. We have to.
About Neo]
Morpheus: I don't know what he can do to save us. But I do know that as long as there is a single breath left in his body he will not give up and neither can we.
Agent Smith: Can you feel it Mr. Anderson? Closing in on you? Oh I can, I really should thank you after all. It was, after all, it was your life that taught me the purpose of all life. Purpose of life is to end.
[After Neo ends up back at the same subway stop after running down the track]
Neo: Shit.
Seraph: Did you always know?
The Oracle: Oh, no. No, I didn't. But I believed... I believed!
Neo: It's been an honor, sir.
Morpheus: No. The honor is still mine.
The Architect: You played a very dangerous game.
The Oracle: Change always is.
Merovingian: You are really ready to die for this man?
Persephone: If she has to, she'll kill everyone of us. She's in love.
Trinity: Believe it!
A generation of men is like a generation of leaves; the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, while others the burgeoning wood brings forth - and the season of spring comes on. So of men one generation springs forth and another ceases.
Homer, The Iliad
Even when someone battles hard, there is an equal portion for one who lingers behind, and in the same honor are held both the coward and the brave man; the idle man and he who has done much meet death alike.
Homer, The Iliad
Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.
Homer, The Iliad
He knew the things that were and the things that would be and the things that had been before.
Homer, The Iliad
He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his knees when he has come back from battle and the dread fray.
Homer, The Iliad
The fates have given mankind a patient soul.
Homer, The Iliad
The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council.
Homer, The Iliad
There is a fullness of all things, even of sleep and love.
Homer, The Iliad
Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.
Homer, The
You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another lyre and song, and in another wide-sounding Zeus puts a good mind.
Homer, The Iliad
Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.
Homer, The Iliad
Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them.
Homer, The Odyssey
Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured.
Homer, The Odyssey
Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.
Homer, The Odyssey
It is equally wrong to speed a guest who does not want to go, and to keep one back who is eager. You ought to make welcome the present guest, and send forth the one who wishes to go.
Homer, The Odyssey
May the gods grant you all things which your heart desires, and may they give you a husband and a home and gracious concord, for there is nothing greater and better than this -when a husband and wife keep a household in oneness of mind, a great woe to their enemies and joy to their friends, and win high renown.
Homer, The Odyssey
Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe and move on the earth, for he believes that he will never suffer evil in the future, as long as the gods give him success and he flourishes in his strength; but when the blessed gods bring sorrows too to pass, even these he bears, against his will, with steadfast spirit, for the thoughts of earthly men are like the day which the father of gods and men brings upon them.
Homer, The Odyssey
The minds of the everlasting gods are not changed suddenly.
Homer, The Odyssey
There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.
Homer, The Odyssey
We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth.
Homer, The Odyssey
Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him.
Homer, The Odyssey
You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age.
Homer, The Odyssey
I fear those big words, Stephen said, which make us so unhappy.Ulysses
A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.Ulysses Stephen Dedalus
Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.Ulysses Stephen Dedalus
Force, hatred, history, all that. That's not life for men and women, insult and hatred. And everybody knows that it's the very opposite of that that is really life.What? says Alf.Love, says Bloom. I mean the opposite of hatred.Ulysses
British Beatitudes! … Beer, beef, business, bibles, bulldogs, battleships, buggery and bishops.Ulysses Stephen Dedalus
Conscience, that boon companion who sets a man free under the strong breastplate of innocence, that bids him on and fear not. Dante
Thou shall know by experience how salt the savor is of others' bread, and how sad a path it is to climb and descend another's stairs. Dante
In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray, Gone from the path direct. Dante
Three sparks--pride, envy, and avarice--have been kindled in all hearts. Dante
It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us. Dante
Ah, savage company; but in the church With saints, and in the taverns with the gluttons. Dante
It is always those who are ready who suffer in delays. Dante
The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come. Dante
What I saw was equal ecstasy: One universal smile it seemed of all things. Dante, paradise
The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time. Dante
The splendors that belong unto the fame of earth are but a wind, that in the same direction lasts not long. Dante
Consider what you came from: you are Greeks! You were not born to live like mindless brutes but to follow paths of excellence and knowledge. Dante
Be like a solid tower whose brave height remains unmoved by all the winds that blow; the man who lets his thoughts be turned aside by one thing or another, will lose sight of his true goal, his mind sapped of its strength. Dante
Your earthly fame is but a gust of wind that blows about, shifting this way and that, and as it changes quarter, changes name. Dante
one drop of blood is left inside my veins that does not throb: I recognize signs of the ancient flame. Dante
Go forth and preach impostures to the world, But give them truth to build on. Dantes nature
Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything. Xenophon
He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce. Xenophon
The sweetest of all sounds is praise. Xenophon
The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without being forced to do so, and remaining steadfast in the moments of greatest peril. Xenophon
There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform. Xenophon
A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind. John Maynard Keynes
Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be. John Maynard Keynes
Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent. John Maynard Keynes
In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil. John Maynard Keynes
Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older. John Maynard Keynes
Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own. John Maynard Keynes
Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others. John Maynard Keynes
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward. John Maynard Keynes
The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion. John Maynard Keynes
The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future. John Maynard Keynes
The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future. John Maynard Keynes
Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking. John Maynard Keynes
Moses: There is a beauty beyond the senses, Nefretiri. Beauty like the quiet of green valleys and still waters. Beauty of the spirit that you cannot understand.
Moses: The Lord of Hosts will do battle for us. Behold his mighty hand
Never confuse movement with action.
Ernest Hemingway
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
Ernest Hemingway
If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.
Ernest Hemingway
Let him think I am more man than I am and I will be so.
Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
Courage is grace under pressure.
Ernest Hemingway
Live life to the fullest.
Ernest Hemingway
In order to write about life, first you must live it!
Ernest Hemingway
To be a successful father there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.
Ernest Hemingway
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway
But did thee feel the earth move?
Ernest Hemingway About orgasm in women
America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds.
Ernest Hemingway
Humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride.
Ernest Hemingway
His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.
Ernest Hemingway
Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.
Ernest Hemingway
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do. Leo Tolstoy
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced. Leo Tolstoy
Boredom: the desire for desires. Leo Tolstoy
Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live. Leo Tolstoy
He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style. Leo Tolstoy
Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised. Leo Tolstoy
I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back. Leo Tolstoy
If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love. Leo Tolstoy
If you want to be happy, be. Leo Tolstoy
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you. Leo Tolstoy
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. Leo Tolstoy
Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity. Leo Tolstoy
Music is the shorthand of emotion. Leo Tolstoy
Music is the shorthand of emotion. Leo Tolstoy
Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal. Leo Tolstoy
One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken. Leo Tolstoy
Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself. Leo Tolstoy
The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life. Leo Tolstoy
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. Leo Tolstoy
True life is lived when tiny changes occur. Leo Tolstoy
We lost because we told ourselves we lost. Leo Tolstoy
Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible. Leo Tolstoy
I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.
Isaac Newton
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
Isaac Newton
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
Isaac Newton
I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Isaac Newton,
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
Isaac Newton
“My own understanding is the sole treasure I possess, and the greatest. Though infinitely small and fragile in comparison with the powers of darkness, it is still a light, my only light.”
Carl Gustav Jung quotes
“Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.”
Carl Gustav Jung quotes
“There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.”
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Carl Gustav Jung quotes
“The word ''belief'' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it -I don't need to believe it.”
Carl Gustav Jung quotes
“Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.”
Carl Gustav Jung quotes
“The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong”
Carl Gustav Jung quotes
“The unconscious mind of man sees correctly even when conscious reason is blind and impotent”
Carl Gustav Jung quotes
“The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely”
Carl Gustav Jung quotes
“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.”
Carl Gustav Jung quotes
“The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.”
Carl Gustav Jung quotes
“To be normal is the ideal aim of the unsuccessful.”
Carl Gustav Jung quotes
“It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how they are themselves”
Carl Gustav Jung quotes
“The creative mind plays with the object it loves”
Carl Gustav Jung quotes
“Intuition (is) perception via the unconscious”
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Carl Gustav Jung quotes
“Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.”
Carl Gustav Jung quotes
“The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.”
Carl Gustav Jung quotes
“One cannot live without inconsistency”
Carl Gustav Jung quotes
“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
Carl Gustav Jung quotes
“We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.”
Carl Gustav Jung quotes
“Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health”
Carl Gustav Jung quotes
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
Carl Gustav Jung quotes
“What is essential in a work of art is that it should rise far above the realm of personal life and speak to the spirit and heart of the poet as man to the spirit and heart of mankind”
Carl Gustav Jung quotes
“There is no coming to consciousness without pain.”
Carl Gustav Jung quotes
“If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.”
Carl Gustav Jung quotes
“I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God.”
Carl Gustav Jung quotes
“Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.”
Carl Gustav Jung quotes
“Error is just as important a condition of life as truth”
Carl Gustav Jung quotes
“Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.”
Carl Gustav Jung quotes
“The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that fits all cases”
Carl Gustav Jung quotes
“As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.”
Carl Gustav Jung quotes
“Everything in the unconscious seeks outward manifestation, and the personality too desires to evolve out of its unconscious conditions and to experience itself as a whole.”
Carl Gustav Jung quotes
“Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.”
Carl Gustav Jung quotes
“But, if you have nothing at all to create, then perhaps you create yourself.”
Carl Gustav Jung quotes
“Enlightenment is not imagining figures of light but making the darkness conscious.”
Carl Gustav Jung quotes
“The true leader is always led”
Carl Gustav Jung
“God is the name by which I designate all things which cross my path violently and recklessly, all things which alter my plans and intentions, and change the course of my life, for better or for worse.”
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Carl Gustav Jung quotes
“Chuckie: Oh, I don't know that. Let me tell you what I do know. Every day I come by to pick you up. And we go out we have a few drinks, and a few laughs and it's great. But you know what the best part of my day is? It's for about ten seconds from when I pull up to the curb to when I get to your door. Because I think maybe I'll get up there and I'll knock on the door and you won't be there. No goodbye, no see you later, no nothin'. Just left. I don't know much, but I know that.”
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Good Will Hunting quotes
Agent Smith: Why, Mr. Anderson? Why do you do it? Why get up? Why keep fighting? Do you believe you're fighting for something? For more that your survival? Can you tell me what it is? Do you even know? Is it freedom? Or truth? Perhaps peace? Yes? No? Could it be for love? Illusions, Mr. Anderson. Vagaries of perception. The temporary constructs of a feeble human intellect trying desperately to justify an existence that is without meaning or purpose. And all of them as artificial as the Matrix itself, although only a human mind could invent something as insipid as love. You must be able to see it, Mr. Anderson. You must know it by now. You can't win. It's pointless to keep fighting. Why, Mr. Anderson? Why? Why do you persist?
Neo: Because I choose to.
It is not possible to fight beyond your strength, even if you strive.
Homer, The Iliad
I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown.
Homer, The Iliad
Plenty to see and hear and feel yet. Feel live warm beings near you. They aren't going to get me this innings. Warm beds: warm full blooded life.Ulysses
Invocation and summary of the story of the Illiad:
"Sing, goddess, of Achilles ruinous angerWhich brought ten thousand pains to the Achaeans,And cast the souls of many stalwart heroesTo Hades, and their bodies to the dogsAnd birds of prey." Lines 1-5
Achilles, as he kills Hector:"No more entreating, dog, by knees or parents.I only wish my fury would compel meTo cut away your flesh and eat it rawFor what you've done. No one can keep the dogsOff of your head, not if they brought me ransomOf ten or twenty times as much, or more…" Iliad Lines 345-350
Achilles: "Don't be angry, Patroclus, if you learn—even though you're in Hades—I gave Hector backto his father for a worthy ransomBut I shall give a proper share to you." Iliad Lines 592-596
Mifune: If we have to give our lives, we give them hell before we do!
Trinity: Dodge this.