Quotes and Aphorisms

"I am not a man, I am dynamite." -Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (Ecce Homo)
"Madness is something rare in individuals, but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages it is the rule." -Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (Beyond Good and Evil)
"The criminal and the soldier at least have the virtue of being against something or for something in a world where many people have learned to accept a kind of gray nothingness, to strike an unreal series of poses in order to be considered normal. It's difficult to say who is engaged in the greater conspiracy: the criminal, the soldier, or us." -Stanley Kubrick
"Perhaps there is a certain element of the lumpen literati that is so dogmatically atheist and materialist and Earth-bound that it finds the grandeur of space and the myriad mysteries of cosmic intelligence anathema..." -Stanley Kubrick
"We live in a box of space and time. Movies are windows in its walls." -Roger Ebert
"Life is brief. Fall in love, maidens, before the crimson bloom fades from your lips, before the tides of passion cool within you, for those of you who know no tomorrow. Life is brief. Fall in love, maidens, before your raven tresses begin to fade, before the flames in your hearts flicker and die, for those to whom today will never return." -Akira Kurosawa (Ikiru)
“The main and essential thing is: the sensory exploration of the world through film. We therefore take as the point of departure the use of the camera as kino-eye, more perfect than the human eye, for the exploration of the chaos of visual phenomena that fills space.” -Dziga Vertov (Kino-eye)

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