Yorgos Lanthimos Quotes

it is, in truth, the most absurd of all suppositions, that a human being can be educated, or even nourished and brought up, without imbibing numberless prejudices from every thing which passes around him.

For the most part we inherit our opinions. We are the heirs of habits and mental customs. Our beliefs, like the fashion of our garments, depend on where we were born. We are molded and fashioned by our surroundings.

By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.

No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.

We limit ourselves. We're told to act and behave in certain way from birth.

There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk, the way we greet people.

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

We are such a product of our upbringing and environment.

A lot of times you're just conditioned by what's around you.

There's a reason why young people think what they think. They are taught it. In many cases when they learn at home is erased or countered or overcome.

The thing is, with 'This Is England', you're always thinking as yourself. You're acting on an instinct. You're acting on what you've heard, what you've been told, and what's happened beforehand.

Human beings can only make sense of the world through the lens they were socialized to make sense of it through.

I don't know if people are born with a worldview or if their thinking is a product of their environment.

I'm a product of my environment.

It is more true to say that our opinions depend upon our lives and habits, than to say that our lives and habits depend on our opinions.

The stories we are told shape the way we see the world, which shapes the way we experience the world.

You get social pressure from your parents, who teach you to pay attention to certain things and not to others. You get it in school.

We are what we see. We are products of our surroundings.

Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.

I think most of us are raised with preconceived notions of the choices we're supposed to make.

Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.

We're all influenced by everything unless we're locked in an empty room.

I think we all are kind of colored by whatever we were raised with or what we came up believing in.

Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.

The system of stereotypes may be the core of our personal tradition, the defenses of our position in society…They may not be a complete picture of the world, but they are a picture of a possible world to which we are adapted. In that world people and things have their well-known places, and do certain expected things.