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reality drawing views
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. Charles Caleb Colton
reality kind all-kinds
Increasingly, we're developing all kinds of systems for verifying reality by echoing it. Alan Watts
reality past concrete
The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
reality negative
Beyond positive and negative, what is Reality?
reality men ink
But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.
reality ultimate-reality ultimate
Everybody is fundamentally the ultimate reality...
reality confusion people
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.
reality sea views
Our view of reality is like a chart of the sea - the truer it is, the less likely we will become lost.
reality definitions purpose
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.
thinking hiking feet-and-walking
If I could not walk far and fast, I think I should just explode and perish. Charles Dickens
thinking vanity
None of us are so much praised or censured as we think.
thinking two glory
There are two things which ought to teach us to think but meanly of human glory; the very best have had their calumniators, the very worst their panegyrists.
thinking enemy frankness
He that openly tells, his friends all that he thinks of them, must expect that they will secretly tell his enemies much that they do not think of him.
thinking people remember
A thorough-paced antiquary not only remembers what all other people have thought proper to forget, but he also forgets what all other people think is proper to remember.
thinking daring finished
Those who have finished by making all others think with them, have usually been those who began by daring to think with themselves.
thinking mind wish
I never thought before, that there was a woman in the world who could affect me so much by saying so little. But don't be hard in your construction of me. You don't know what my state of mind towards you is. You don't know how you haunt and bewilder me. You don't know how the cursed carelessness that is over-officious in helping me at every other turning of my life WON'T help me here. You have struck it dead, I think, and I sometimes wish you had struck me dead along with it.
thinking greed words-of-wisdom
"As I think I told you once before," said I, "it is you who have been, in your greed and cunning, against all the world. It may be profitable to you to reflect, in future, that there never were greed and cunning in the world yet, that did not do too much, and overreach themselves. It is as certain as death."
thinking words-of-wisdom secret
Don't you think that any secret course is an unworthy one?
quests lost attainment
All explorers are seeking something they have lost. It is seldom that they find it, and more seldom still that the attainment brings them greater happiness than the quest. Arthur C. Clarke
quests service-to-others matured
Those who have matured spiritually, now put service to others at the center of their quest and of their lives. Arianna Huffington
quests losing ifs
If you are losing your peace in your quest for peace, you are not on the road to peace. The road to peace is peace. Alan Cohen
quests vulgar deceived
The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth. Emile M. Cioran
quests said realms
The realm of Suaron is ended!' said Gandalf. 'The Ring-bearer has fulfilled his Quest J. R. R. Tolkien
quests satisfaction scientist
Scientists derive satisfaction from figuring out the puzzle. It's about the quest, not the grail. Isaac Asimov
quests presence-of-love
In the presence of love, hearth and quest become one. Jeanette Winterson
quests needs inspired
The need of reason is not inspired by the quest for truth but by the quest for meaning. And truth and meaning are not the same. The basic fallacy , taking precedence over all specific metaphysical fallacies, is to interpret meaning on the model of truth. Hannah Arendt
quests littles world
You got to start by doing little things if your quest is to take over the world. J. B. Smoove