Jeremy Griffith famous quotes

Since science and religion provide two different perspectives on the human situation, they must ultimately be able to be reconciled.
-- Jeremy Griffith

#Two #Perspective #Different

If you want to save the snow leopard, or the giant Redwoods, or the Okavango delta, or the Amazon, or the atmosphere, or the Earth, or those you love, or yourself, or the human race, this is the only path that can achieve that-so the truth is the sooner you support and adopt this path of transformation through understanding the better. The choice is self-destruction or self-discovery.
-- Jeremy Griffith

#Race #Discovery #Self

The truth is, the hypocrisy of humans is everywhere
-- Jeremy Griffith

#Hypocrisy #Truth Is #Humans

When the hypocrisy of life appears we often fail to recognise it or the question it raises
-- Jeremy Griffith

#Hypocrisy #Failing #Raises

Men and women fall in love abandoning reality in favour of the dream
-- Jeremy Griffith

#Dream #Falling In Love #Reality

What's needed on Earth is love of the dark side of ourselves
-- Jeremy Griffith

#Dark #Earth #Sides

The real debate about both the horrific inequality in the world and about the terrorism and frightening instability in the world requires analysis of the differences in upset-adaption or alienation-from-soul between individuals, races, genders, generations, countries, civilisations and cultures, but until the human condition could be explained and the upset state of the human condition compassionately understood and thus defended that debate could not take place.
-- Jeremy Griffith

#Country #Real #Differences

When the human condition is finally demystified, human insecurity and nervousness will be at a maximum...for this ultimate enlightenment to be allowed, society is going to have to adhere scrupulously to the democratic principle of freedom of expression.
-- Jeremy Griffith

#Expression #Insecurity #Enlightenment

On occasions, after drinking a pint of beer at luncheon, there would be a flow into my mind with sudden and unaccountable emotion, sometimes a line or two of verse, sometimes a whole stanza, accompanied, not preceded by a vague notion of the poem which they were destined to form a part of.... I say bubble up because, so far as I could make out, the source of the suggestions thus proffered to the brain was the pit of the stomach.

In the middle of nowhere, along a quiet stretch of road, the diner dreamt of the hungry dead. And of two men.

There are two types of people in the world, and I'm one of them.

Adultism leads to a phenomenon of little adults, who are young people who are treated as adults-in-the-making. A non-discriminatory perspective would be to treat children and youth as whole and complete people right now.

You do get really exhausted doing films. You work such long hours, and after a while, things can get out of perspective, just like if anyone's tired, things get on top of them.

Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

One reason I can be more tolerant than most is that as a therapist I have the advantage of information about my patients that most people are not privy to. And I discover that we rarely if ever see the totality of another in ordinary social intercourse. When an individual appears mean and lazy, we are only seeing one part of the person, elicited by a particular set of circumstances on a particular day, and we do well to wait a while before concluding that what we see is the whole person.

Music is language itself. It should not have any barriers of caste, creed, language or anything. Music is one, only cultures are different. Music is the language of languages. It is the ultimate mother of languages.

Today I am in control because I want to be. I have my fingers on the switch, but have lived a lifetime ignoring the control I have over my own world. Today is different.

There are different reasons to make movies.