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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.
ontology logic mathematics
Mathematics is purely hypothetical: it produces nothing but conditional propositions. Charles Sanders Peirce
ontology logic certainty
To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought. Alfred North Whitehead
ontology logic study
It is well known that the central problem of the whole of modern mathematics is the study of transcendental functions defined by differential equations. Felix Klein
ontology logic mysterious
The enormous usefulness of mathematics in the natural sciences is something bordering on the mysterious and there is no rational explanation of it. Eugene Wigner
ontology tests logic
No human investigation can claim to be scientific if it doesn't pass the test of mathematical proof. Leonardo da Vinci
ontology faithfulness epistemology
It is the faithfulness of God that allows epistemology to model ontology. John Polkinghorne
ontology infinity logic
Infinity is a fathomless gulf, into which all things vanish. Marcus Aurelius
ontology limits logic
We call infinite that thing whose limits we have not perceived, and so by that word we do not signify what we understand about a thing, but rather what we do not understand. Rene Descartes
utopian quickness
Nothing we do has the quickness, the sureness, the deep intelligence living at peace would have. Denise Levertov
utopia absurd should
To expect, indeed, that the freedom of trade should ever be entirely restored in Great Britain, is as absurd as to expect that an Oceana or Utopia should never be established in it. Adam Smith
utopia premature
Utopias are often just premature truths. Alphonse de Lamartine
utopia trails cycles
Cycle trails will abound in Utopia. H. G. Wells
utopia
No Utopia is Utopia for everyone Karen Joy Fowler
utopia oneself knows
To know oneself is to disbelieve utopia. Michael Novak
utopia abstract fulfilled
None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace. Theodor Adorno