“We feel and know that we are eternal.” — Baruch Spinoza Quote

We feel and know that we are eternal.

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

Desire is the very essence of man.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

The first step to eternal life is you have to die.

We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.

People have always painted me like a pessimist, like somebody who sees the glass half-empty. But I think the fact that I keep showing up and saying, 'No, there must be a way for me to live in this world,' that shows I'm an eternal optimist.

There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives.

All of the movies that last, that you return to, the movies that struck you as a kid and continue to open up to you 10 years later and 10 years after that - those are the movies I want to make. Those things are eternal.