What are some of the implications of the duality of God and Nature in Spinoza?
The world is fundamentally broken. This is the God Problem.
A broken world is by definition an unjust world.
Perfection is not possible; but limitless possibility implies that perfection is at least conceivable. Therefore, perfection must be found within its composition, the relationship between points, not the point themselves.
True substance is relational.
Why pray, if the world does not run according to the rules of magic? Why pray when our words have no power to change the impersonal laws that govern our lives? We pray, sending up our love, enveloping those we pray for with our unwavering love. Though the world does not abide by magic, there is magic in the power, the giving of love.
One evening, long ago, or so I imagine, I met a man while walking along the street. He had a tear-shaped tattoo under his right eye. The man explained the tear was a symbol of death, for the man he murdered. Was the man guilty, I asked? Or innocent? The man shook his head. I can not say.
I thanked him and we departed. Later that same night, I saw another man appear from the shadows of a street lamp. When our eyes met, I turned and fled. Upon this man’s face, I swear, I saw no tears, no tattoos. Imagine! The countless murders the man must have committed beyond our capacity to grasp.
“The mystery of life isn’t a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.” – Dune.
“Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test that it’s a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.” – Dune.
Andrei Tarkovsky
Ingmar Bergman
Robert Bresson
Jean-Luc Godard
Federico Fellini
Akira Kurosawa
Alfred Hitchcock
Michelangelo Antonioni
Luis Buñuel
Roberto Rossellini
Orson Welles
Satyajit Ray
Yasujiro Ozu
Stanley Kubrick
Claire Denis
Agnes Varda
David Lynch
Abbas Kiarostami
Martin Scorsese
Quentin Tarantino
Francis Ford Coppola
Jean Renoir
John Ford
Howard Hawks
Carl Th. Dreyer
Charlie Chaplin
Buster Keaton
Fritz Lang
Billy Wilder
Vittorio De Sica
Francois Truffaut
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Sergei Eisenstein
Powell and Pressburger
Hayao Miyazaki
Kenji Mizoguchi
Béla Tarr
Edward Yang
Victor Erice
Wong Kar Wai
Max Ophuls
Luchino Visconti
Ousmane Sembène
Sergio Leone
Stephen Spielberg
John Cassavetes
Robert Altman
Werner Herzog
Lucrecia Martel
Terrence Malick
Céline Sciamma
Chantal Akerman
Eric Rohmer
Jean-Pierre Melville
Wim Wenders
Coen Brothers
Spike Lee
Hou Hsiao-hsien
Nicolas Roeg
Louis Malle
Jean-Pierre Melville
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Paul Thomas Anderson
Pedro Almodóvar
John Huston
David Cronenberg
Otto Preminger
Elia Kazan
“We do not know how big the crowd is, and what opposition it is…until we get out of step with it.”
“The cinema is truth 24 times a second, and every cut is a lie.”
– Godard
The paradox of freedom: “Feel free to turn your back on your bright futures.”
Bella Tarr: “I despise stories, as they mislead people into believing that something has happened. In fact, nothing really happens as we flee from one condition to another … All that remains is time. This is probably the only thing that’s still genuine — time itself; the years, days, hours, minutes and seconds.”
“Here, all expression, even the most violent, is a desire for oblivion.”
Can tedium become a revelation?
The Hack 