Time does not always pass at the same speed. We are the ones who determine that speed.
History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.
Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.
Science and knowledge, especially that of philosophy, came from the Arabs into the West.
Everything that from eternity has happened in heaven and earth, the life of God and all the deeds of time simply are the struggles for Spirit to know Itself, to find Itself, be for Itself, and finally unite itself to Itself; it is alienated and divided, but only so as to be able thus to find itself and return to Itself. . . As existing in an individual form, this liberation is called 'I'; as developed to its totality, it is free Spirit; as feeling, it is Love; and as enjoyment, it is Blessedness.
We learn from history that we do not learn from history
Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.
I think one of the most humiliating moments of my life was putting on spandex, personally. It's always nice when four women pull you into spandex when you're in jockey shorts. Yeah.
The extreme self-sacrifice characteristic of group-selected species such as ants and bees can often be found among soldiers.
I may have taken someone through the wringer psychologically, but I've never been sinister.
It's rare in a documentary film that you have a repetitive act. So when you do, you can shoot it in different ways so that you have more choices when you're sitting down to edit that sequence six months later.