Quentin Tarantino
- Bridget's defence; Inglorious Basterds
Everybody needs to calm down. You're letting your imagination get the better of you. You met the sergeant yourself. Willi. You remember him, don't you? His wife had a baby tonight. He had just become a... He had just become a father! His commanding officer gave him and his mates the night off to celebrate. The Germans being there was either a trap set by me or a tragic coincidence. It couldn't be both.
Micheal Oakenshott
- Exerpt from; Experience and Its Modes
No separation is possible between experience and reality. Reality is nothing but experience, the world of experience as a coherent whole. Everything is real so long as we do not take it for more or less than it is. Nothing is real save the world of experience single and complete. Thus, reality is a world, and is a world of ideas.
Micheal Oakenshott
- Exerpt from; Experience and Its Modes
What is given in experience is a world of ideas, and what is achieved is that world of ideas made more of a world. There is no experience which is not an idea, and no idea which is not a world. Further, truth is the world of experience as a coherent whole, nothing else is true, and there is no criterion of truth other than this coherence. Thus, truth and experience are given together, and it is impossible to separate them.
