Eames: We could suggest breaking up the company as a "screw you" to the old man. Cobb: No, because I think positive emotion trumps negative emotion every time. We all yearn for reconciliation, for catharsis. We need Robert Fischer to have a positive emotional reaction to all this.
Eames: That boy's relationship with his father is even worse than we imagined. Arthur: This helps us how? Cobb: The stronger the issues, the more powerful the catharsis.
Cobb: Look at you. You’re just a shade. You’re just a shade of my real wife. And you’re the best I could do, but I’m sorry, you’re just not good enough.
Brand: Why not tell people? Why keep building those stations? Mann: Because he knew how hard it would be to get people to work together to save the species instead of themselves, or their children. Cooper: Bullshit. Mann: You never would’ve come unless you believed you would save them. Evolution has yet to transcend that simple barrier. We can care deeply, selflessly about those we know. But that empathy rarely extends beyond our line of sight.
Brand: Love is the one thing we’re capable of perceiving that transcends dimensions of time and space. Maybe we should trust that even if we can’t understand it yet.