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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. Alan Watts
reality negative
Beyond positive and negative, what is Reality? Alan Watts
reality men ink
But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know. Alan Watts
reality ultimate-reality ultimate
Everybody is fundamentally the ultimate reality... Alan Watts
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. Alan Watts
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. Alan Watts
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. Alan Watts
confusion becoming awake
Becoming "awake" involves seeing our confusion more clearly. Chogyam Trungpa
confusion experience needs
I use the word inquiry as synonymous with The Work...Inquiry is a way to end confusion and to experience internal peace, even in a world of apparent chaos. Above all else, inquiry is about realizing that all the answers we ever need are always available inside us. Byron Katie
confusion ruins facts
It was a well-known fact that the richness of buttery foods led to the moral ruin and confusion of the intellect. Carlos Ruiz Zafon
confusion humanity impossible
Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change. Bertolt Brecht
confusion newton mathematics
Newton's health, and confusion to mathematics. Benjamin Haydon
confusion dealing opens people sure whenever
Whenever you have confusion like this in the marketplace, it opens up opportunities for fraud. People will really have to make sure they're dealing with reputable entities. Gail Shearer
confusion let-it-go goes-on
Let it go on record that any confusion arose simply because we lacked certain commonalities of reference. Charles de Lint
confusion long unity
An apparent confusion, if lived with long enough, may become orderly . . . A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day's unity Charles Ives
confusion confusing use
Lately there have been complaints that the use of the magnitude scale is confusing, or at least the reporting of magnitudes in the newspapers 'confuses the public. Charles Francis Richter
religion crime thousand
Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand. Charles Caleb Colton
religion whole department
Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it. Alan Watts
religion church want
We do not want churches. They will teach us to quarrel about God. Chief Joseph
religion stressed magnificence
A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths. Sooner or later such a religion will emerge. Carl Sagan
religion
Religion is a reassurance - in fact, that's its only purpose. Michel Onfray
religion vivid intense
It's incongruous that the older we get, the more likely we are to turn in the direction of religion. Less vivid and intense ourselves, closer to the grave, we begin to conceive of ourselves as immortal. Edward Hoagland
religion ordinary deities
Every event, or appearance, or accident, which seems to deviate from the ordinary course of nature has been rashly ascribed to the immediate action of the Deity. Edward Gibbon
religion atheism might
The gravest of the ecclesiastical historians, Eusebius himself, indirectly confesses that he has related whatever might redound to the glory, and that he has suppressed all that could tend to the disgrace, of religion. Edward Gibbon
religion belief equations
The equation of religion with belief is rather recent. Arnold J. Toynbee