Stanley Kubrick Quotes

There is something fascinating about every human being. The question is how much they're willing to divulge.

One of the things I constantly think about as a writer is the way in which people are full of contradictions - there's all this contradictory information inside a human personality.

There is a great deal of human nature in man.

Lyndon Johnson is a human puzzle so complicated nobody can ever understand it.

I really like investigating the things that make us human.

Because I am fascinated by people and what makes them behave the way they do. I think it is one of the most fascinating things in the world.

Biffy didn't like enigmas - they were out of fashion.

I can measure the motion of bodies but I cannot measure human folly.

Long ago I'd said that I am "fascinated by the phantasmagoria of human personality" - this is perhaps even truer now than years ago.

Since ideology is part of the human personality, it deserves a place in the kingdom of eternal truths.

There is unquestionably a contradiction between an efficient technological machine and the flowering of human nature, of the human personality.

In each of us there dwells a mystery, and that mystery is the human personality.

I think it was a big revelation to me earlier in my life that people who appear to be evil are actually not. In other words, nobody wakes up in the morning and says, "Yuck, yuck, yuck, I'm gonna be evil." I think even like Saddam Hussein or Hitler would wake up and say, "I think it's going to be a good day. I'm gonna do some really important work." And given their definition of good, they went out and did horrible things.

It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.

The problems that stand in the way are not of economical or technological nature. The deepest sources of the global crisis lie inside the human personality and reflect the level of consciousness evolution of our species.

Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first.

People's motivations haven't changed in maybe 400 or maybe 4,000 years.

Everybody will die, but very few people want to be reminded of that fact.

Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Nothing tells more about the character of a man than the things he makes fun of.

Love is sweet, dearest Ned, but it cannot change a man's nature. -- Lyanna

He was too perfect, despite being one of the most imperfect people I knew.

People's weaker side is not necessarily their truer self.

Personalism's insistence that only personality-finite and infinite-is ultimately real strengthened me in two convictions: it gave me metaphysical and philosophical grounding for the idea of a personal God, and it gave me a metaphysical basis for the dignity and worth of all human personality.

the more i live, the more i realize what strange creatures human beings are. some of them might just as well have a hundred legs, like a centipede, or six, like a lobster. the human consistency and dignity one has been led to expect from one's fellow-man seem actually non-existent. one doubts if they exist to any startling degree even in oneself.