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reality people sun
There are people whose external reality is generous because it is transparent, because you can read everything, accept everything, understand everything about them: people who carry their own sun with them. Carlos Fuentes
reality ordinary shallow
I had been experiencing brief flashes of disassociation, or shallow states of non-ordinary reality. Carlos Castaneda
reality historical normal
The things shamans deal with are extremely practical. They break down parameters of normal historical reality. Magical passes are just one aspect of that.
reality deaf-and-blind world
The sorcerer's description of the world is perceivable. But our insistence on holding on to our standard version of reality renders us almost deaf and blind to it.
reality world way
Nothing in this world is a gift. Whatever must be learned must be learned the hard way.
reality world description
For a sorcerer, reality, or the world as we all know it, is only a description.
reality media gossip
Increasingly, the picture of our society as rendered in our media is illusionary and delusionary: disfigured, unreal, out of touch with reality, disconnected from the true context of our life. It is disfigured by celebrity, by celebrity worship, by gossip, by sensationalism, by denial of our societies Carl Bernstein
reality definitions events
Ye cannot know eternal reality by a definition. Time itself, and all the acts and events that fill time are the definition, and it must be lived. C. S. Lewis
reality morality pretending
The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive.
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 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 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 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 premature
Utopias are often just premature truths. Alphonse de Lamartine
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 abstract fulfilled
None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace. Theodor Adorno
utopia oneself knows
To know oneself is to disbelieve utopia. Michael Novak
utopia trails cycles
Cycle trails will abound in Utopia. H. G. Wells
utopia
No Utopia is Utopia for everyone Karen Joy Fowler