"Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities..." - Quote by Aristotle

“The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.”

“It [Justice] is complete virtue in the fullest sense, because it is the active exercise of complete virtue; and it is complete because its possessor can exercise it in relation to another person, and not only by himself.”

“Happiness belongs to the self sufficient.”

“It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realise his ideal. But the true tragedy that dogs the steps of most artists is that they realise their ideal too absolutely. For, when the ideal is realised, it is robbed of its wonder and its mystery, and becomes simply a new starting-point for an ideal that is other than itself.”

“You make a movie, and if somebody reads something into it, then great, more power to him.”

“Art is a lie that makes us realise truth ... that is given us to understand.”

“I went to a pizzeria. The guy gave me the smallest slice possible. If the pizza was a pie chart with what would you do if you found a million dollars, he gave me the "Donate it to charity" slice. "I'd like to exchange this for the 'Keep it!'"”

“If I was a mechanic and someone called me and said their car would not start, I would say, "Hey - maybe a killer is after you!"”

“All possible knowledge, then, depends on the validity of reasoning...Unless human reasoning is valid no science can be true.”