The Oxford Murders (film) Quotes

The Oxford Murders (film) is a TV program that debuted in 1970 . The Oxford Murders stopped airing in 1970.

It features Gerardo Herrero as producer, and Roque Baños in charge of musical score.

The Oxford Murders (film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United Kingdom. Each episode of The Oxford Murders (film) is 108 minutes long. The Oxford Murders (film) is distributed by Odeon Sky Filmworks.

The cast includes: John Hurt as Arthur Seldom.

The Oxford Murders (film) Quotes

John Hurt as Arthur Seldom

• (John Hurt) "There is no way of finding a single absolute truth, an irrefutable argument to help answer the questions of mankind. Philosophy therefore is dead. Because whereof we cannot speak, thereof we must be silent."

• (John Hurt) "Since man is incapable of reconciling mind and matter, he tends to confer some sort of entity on ideas because he cannot bear the notion that the purely abstract only exists in our brain. The beauty and harmony of a snowflake, the butterfly that flutters its wings and causes a hurricane on the other side of the world. We've been hearing about that damn butterfly for decades but who has been able to predict a single hurricane? Nobody. Tell me something. Where is the beauty and harmony in cancer? What makes a cell suddenly decide to turn itself into a killer metastasis and destroy the rest of the cells in a healthy body? Does anybody know? No. Because we'd rather think of snowflakes and butterflies. Or Pain? War? So why? Because we need to think that life has meaning. That everything is governed by logic and not by mere chance. If I write 2, then 4, then 6, we feel good because we know that next comes 8. We can foresee it. We are not in the hands of destiny. Unfortunately however, this has nothing to do with truth. Don't you agree? This is only fear. Sad."

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