"Without the possibility of death, adventure is not possible."

-- Reinhold Messner

#Adventure Quotes #Possibility Quotes

“Doubt is a profound and effective spiritual motivation. Without doubt, no truism is transcended, no new knowledge found, no expansion of the imagination possible. Doubt is unsettling to the ego and those who are drawn to ideologies that promise the dispelling of doubt by preferring certainties never grow.”
“In places like Germany or France the idea of black-white is not so much black-white but "our people and them," and "them" can be people from the near east like Turks or Muslims or North Africans, all of whom might well be considered white in the United States.”
“You don't sit up in a cave and write the Great American Novel and know it is utterly superb, and then throw it page by page into the fire. You just don't do that. You send it out. You have to send it out.”
“Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.”
“God wants the world to function in an orderly way, not a chaotic way, so teaching humans to do what's right and what will make for the happiest life isn't going to be off limits.”
“I think there's something in the human psyche that we're titillated by the person who flies too close to the candle and their wings get singed.”

Source : "Kubrick, Inside a Film Artist's Maze". Book by Thomas Allen Nelson, p. 10, 2000.
“Everything beautiful has its moment and then passes away.”
“If you put frightening things into a picture, then they can't harm you. In fact, you end becoming quite fond of them.”

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