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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power. ”
Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart. ”
Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact. ”
Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps. ”
If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life. ”
The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human. ”
We've been surrounded by images of space our whole lives, from the speculative images of science fiction to the inspirational visions of artists to the increasingly beautiful pictures made possible by complex technologies. But whilst we have an overwhelmingly vivid visual understanding of space, we have no sense of what space sounds like. ”
In life, we are all more than one thing, but for some reason in movies, you're either this or that. It reduces the complexity of a human being in so many ways. ”
With 'Downsizing,' a lot of the discussion hasn't been about the film itself, but about cultural and political conversations happening outside of it. It's being digested in the context of the time. ”
What is cooking? 'Cooking' is a loose term. It's understanding energy or the lack thereof. ”