A cute little dialogue from the movie I just watched:
"As practice, you have to start out learning to believe the little lies, like Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy..."
"So we can believe the big ones?"
"Yes - Justice, mercy, duty - that sort of thing."
"They're not the same at all!"
"You think so? Then take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder and sieve it through the finest sieve and then show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy - and yet, you try to act as if there is some ideal order, as if there is some rightness in the universe by which it may be judged."
"But people have got to believe that or what's the point?"
"You need to believe in things that aren't true. How else can they become?"
"As practice, you have to start out learning to believe the little lies, like Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy..."
"So we can believe the big ones?"
"Yes - Justice, mercy, duty - that sort of thing."
"They're not the same at all!"
"You think so? Then take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder and sieve it through the finest sieve and then show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy - and yet, you try to act as if there is some ideal order, as if there is some rightness in the universe by which it may be judged."
"But people have got to believe that or what's the point?"
"You need to believe in things that aren't true. How else can they become?"
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