You see, in this world there is one awful thing, and that is that everyone has his reasons.
Interpretation
Everyone has their justifications and perspectives for their actions, regardless of their morality.
This quote highlights the complexity of human behavior and the understanding that every individual acts based on their own reasoning, shaped by personal experiences and circumstances. It suggests that, while one might view someone's actions as wrong or unjust, there is often a deeper rationale that informs those decisions, emphasizing the importance of empathy and understanding in human interactions.
In practice
In a discussion about moral dilemmas, one might use this quote to illustrate the importance of understanding others' perspectives.
To the question, ‘Is the cinema an art?’ my answer is, ‘what does it matter?’... You can make films or you can cultivate a garden. Both have as much claim to being called an art as a poem by Verlaine or a painting by Delacroix… Art is ‘making.’ The art of poetry is the art of making poetry. The art of love is the art of making love... My father never talked to me about art. He could not bear the word.
A film director is not a creator, but a midwife. His business is to deliver the actor of a child that he did not know he had inside him.
A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it into pieces and makes it again.
The real hell of life is that everyone has his reasons.
I believe that perfection handicaps cinema.
A Director Makes Only One Movie in His Life. Then He Breaks It Into Pieces and Makes It Again.
In the post-enlightenment Europe of the 19th century the highest authority was no longer the Church. Instead it was science. Thus was born racial anti-Semitism, based on two disciplines regarded as science in their day - the 'scientific study of race' and the Social Darwinism of Herbert Spencer and Ernst Haeckel.
Maybe every other American movie shouldn't be based on a comic book. Other countries will think Americans live in an infantile fantasy land where reality is whatever we say it is and every problem can be solved with violence.
I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
Requiescat Tread lightly, she is near Under the snow, Speak gently, she can hear The daisies grow. All her bright golden hair Tarnished with rust, She that was young and fair Fallen to dust. Lily-like, white as snow, She hardly knew She was a woman, so Sweetly she grew. Coffin-board, heavy stone, Lie on her breast, I vex my heart alone She is at rest. Peace, Peace, she cannot hear Lyre or sonnet, All my life’s buried here, Heap earth upon it.
I have a theory which I suspect is rather immoral,' Smiley went on, more lightly. 'Each of us has only a quantum of compassion. That if we lavish our concern on every stray cat, we never get to the centre of things.
Our technological society has no longer any place in it for wisdom that seeks truth for its own sake, that seeks the fullness of being, that seeks to rest in an intuition of the very ground of all being. Without wisdom, the apparent opposition of action and contemplation, of work and rest, of involvement and detachment, can never be resolved.
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