It considers not only how we relate to others, but how we relate to our ideas of others so that a completely phony, non-human replica of a dead wife can inspire the same feelings that the wife herself once did. That is a peculiarity of humans: We feel the same emotions for our ideas as we do for the real world, which is why we can cry while reading a book, or fall in love with movie stars. Our idea of humanity bewitches us, while humanity itself stays safely sealed away into its billions of separate containers, or "people.
What you see is so much less than what you get. - Roger Ebert
What you see is so much less than what you get.
- Roger Ebert
We are the playthings of the gods. - Roger Ebert
We are the playthings of the gods.
Time is what the depressed and panicked lack. - Roger Ebert
Time is what the depressed and panicked lack.
Praise without merit is more harmful than unearned criticism. - Roger Ebert
Praise without merit is more harmful than unearned criticism.
Every great film should seem new every time you see it. - Roger Ebert
Every great film should seem new every time you see it.
I think we have to get beyond the idea that we have to categorize people. - Roger Ebert
I think we have to get beyond the idea that we have to categorize people.
Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you. - Roger Ebert
Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.
I do not fear death. I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other side of death to fear. - Roger Ebert
I do not fear death. I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other side of death to fear.
I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization. - Roger Ebert
I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization.
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