I am nostalgic of an era I never knew.
[T]he historian lays humanity on the couch.
We shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man.
Both our present science and our present technology are so tinctured with orthodox Christian arrogance toward nature that no solution for our ecologic crisis can be expected from them alone. Since the roots of our trouble are so largely religious, the remedy must also be essentially religious, whether we call it that or not. We must rethink and refeel our nature and destiny.
More science and more technology are not going to get us out of the present ecological crises until we find a new religion, or rethink our old one.
History is a means of access to ourselves.
The past in the hands of historians is not what it was.
Most profoundly deaf people have speech that is very difficult to understand.
It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you.
Narrow minds can develop as well through persecution as through benevolence; they can assure themselves of their power by tyrannizing cruelly or beneficially over others.
I remember that when I got to NYU, everyone was writing scripts. But I was 18 at the time, and when you write a script, so much of it is about what you pull from life, and this sounds sort of cheesy, but I felt like I didn't have enough life experience at that point to write a movie.