Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Falsehood, like a drawing in perspective, will not bear to be examined in every point of view, because it is a good imitation of truth, as a perspective is of the reality, only in one. But truth, like that reality of which the perspective is the representation, will bear to be scrutinized in all points of view, and though examined under every situation, is one and the same.

Alan Watts

Increasingly, we're developing all kinds of systems for verifying reality by echoing it.

Alan Watts

The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.

Alan Watts

Beyond positive and negative, what is Reality?

Alan Watts

But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

Alan Watts

Everybody is fundamentally the ultimate reality...

Alan Watts

I am amazed that Congressmen can pass a bill imposing severe penalties on anyone who burns the American flag , whereas they are responsible for burning that for which the flag stands: the United States as a territory, as a people , and as a biological manifestation. That is an example of our perennial confusion of symbols with realities.

Alan Watts

Our view of reality is like a chart of the sea - the truer it is, the less likely we will become lost.

Alan Watts

The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually “grasp” reality.

Charles Caleb Colton

That extremes beget extremes is an apothegm built on the most profound observation of the human mind.

David Kim

If we begin to see how the gospel is able to change our work, it can have a profound effect on our sense of calling and the meaning behind the work that we do day-in and day-out.

Catherynne M. Valente

Metamorphosis is the most profound of all acts.

Blythe Danner

Maybe subconsciously I've kept activism separate from acting because it's important to me in a more profound way.

David Brainerd

No amount of scholastic attainment, of able and profound exposition of brilliant and stirring eloquence can atone for the absence of a deep impassioned sympathetic love for human souls.

Audre Lorde

We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives

Ed Helms

I have profound respect for Sacha Baron Cohen, but Borat is not a particularly comfortable movie for me to sit through.

Steve Crump

What he was saying was utterly profound in some regards.

Edgar Winter

The most profound, tangible influence in my life has been my wife, Monique. I don't know that I would even be alive were it not for her, and I certainly would not be the person that I am today.

Dan Savage

When I was in high school I got involved in the fringe theater scene in Chicago, and I met some openly gay people. I could see that it got better, that they were happy and loved and supported. I saw with my own eyes that it got better.

Alex Pareene

Only a small rich fringe hates Social Security for disincentivizing 80-year-olds from seeking full-time employment.

Mark Drake

I think this is a publicity stunt, and at the end of the day she's a fringe candidate. This is her 15 minutes of fame.

Louise Rennison

I wanted to kill her and make her eat her fringe. And her knickers.

David Anders

I've always heard of the Fringe and of the quality of the shows, and I always wanted to be a part of it,

Lawrence Kampf

What the fringe does is essentially function as a large-scale co-op.

Karen Aroesty

They're in the minority. They're on the fringe and we need to keep them there.

Ted Cruz

If you think back to the fight over drones, when I was proud to be standing shoulder to shoulder with Rand Paul filibustering for 13 hours, that was viewed as a fringe issue, as a quixotic issue, and yet millions of Americans engaged, spoke up, got online.