Tuesday, July 1, 2008

The Matrix - Quotes

Meanings:

Trinity : The union of the Father and Son and Holy Ghost in one Godhead.
- Three people considered as a unit
Neo : New, revised new version
Morpheus : (Ovid) the Roman god of sleep and dreams
Seraph : An angel of the first order; usually portrayed as the winged head of a child
The Oracle : An authoritative person who divines the future
Cypher : A person of no influence.
- A mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number.
- A quantity of no importance
Nebuchadnezzar:
(Old Testament) king of Chaldea who captured and destroyed Jerusalem and exiled the Israelites to Babylonia (630?-562 BC)
Zion :
1. Originally a stronghold captured by David (the 2nd king of the Israelites); above it was built a temple and later the name extended to the whole hill; finally it became a synonym for the city of Jerusalem.
2. An imaginary place considered to be perfect or ideal
déjà vu : The experience of thinking that a new situation had occurred before
sentinels: A person employed to watch for something to happen

MATRIX

Morpheus: Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself.

Morpheus: Don't think you are, know you are....

Morpheus: I'm trying to free your mind, Neo, but I can only show you the door, you're the one that has to walk through it.

Morpheus: You have to let it all go, Neo, fear, doubt, and disbelief. Free your mind.

Cypher: After nine years, you know what I realize? Ignorance is bliss.

Mouse: To deny our own impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human.

Spoon boy: The truth is that there is no spoon. Then you'll see that it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself.

The Oracle: Being the one is just like being in love. No one can tell you your in love, you just know it.

Agent Smith: But I believe that as a species, human beings define their reality through misery and suffering.

Trinity: Neo, no one has ever done anything like this.
Neo: That's why it's going to work.

Morpheus: There's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.

Morpheus: He's beginning to believe.

MATRIX – II
Neo: I just wish... I wish I knew what I'm supposed to do.

Seraph: You do not truly know someone until you fight them.

The Oracle: Because you didn't come here to make the choice, you've already made it. You're here to try to understand why you made it.

The Oracle: We can never see past the choices we don't understand.

Agent Smith: because as we both know, without purpose, we would not exist.

Merovingian: You see, there is only one constant, one universal, it is the only real truth: causality. Action and reaction. Cause and effect.

Merovingian: No. Wrong. Choice is an illusion, created between those with power, and those without.

Agent Smith: I'm sorry, this is a dead end.

Agent Smith: Oh you haven't figured that out? Still using all the muscles except the one that matters.

Agent Smith: If you can't beat us, join us.

The Architect: Hope. It is the quintessential human delusion, simultaneously the source of your greatest strength and your greatest weakness.

MATRIX – III
Merovingian: Where some see coincidence, I see consequence. Where others see chance, I see cost.

Merovingian: It is remarkable how similar the pattern of love is to the pattern of insanity.
Oracle: Everything that has a beginning has an end.

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