Famous Quotes & Sayings

Olafur Eliasson

I always try to make work that activates the viewer to be a co-producer of our shared reality.

Olive Schreiner

There are only two things that are absolute realities, love and knowledge, and you can't escape them.

Octavian Paler

The others wolves would devour me if they could know that my roar is, in reality, a crying.

Octavia Spencer

I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist. And my reality is that we live in a multifaceted, multicultural world. And maybe once we stop labeling ourselves, then maybe everyone else will.

Octavio Paz

It is always difficult to give oneself up; few persons anywhere ever succeed in doing so, and even fewer transcend the possessive stage to know love for what it actually is: a perpetual discovery, and immersion in the waters of reality, an unending re-creation.

Norton Juster

Perhaps someday you can have one city as easy to see as Illusions and as hard to forget as Reality.

Emile M. Cioran

After having struggled madly to solve all problems, after having suffered on the heights of despair, in the supreme hour of revelation, you will find that the only answer, the only reality, is silence.

Emile M. Cioran

Reality is a creation of our excesses.

Emile M. Cioran

What can be said, lacks reality. Only what fails to make its way into words exists and counts.

Ellen Key

Conventionality is the tacit agreement to set appearances before reality, form before content ...

Ellen Glasgow

To seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.

Ellen Glasgow

... the life of the mind is reality, and love without romantic illumination is a spiritless matter.

Ellen Glasgow

Knowledge, like experience, is valid in fiction only after it has dissolved and filtered down through the imagination into reality.

Ellen Glasgow

Pessimism is the affectation of youth, the reality of age.

Ellen Glasgow

No idea is so antiquitated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day be antiquitated . . . to seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.

Epictetus

Nothing is in reality either pleasant or unpleasant by nature but all things become so through habit

Epictetus

A thing either is what it appears to be; or it is not, but yet appears to be; or it is, but does not appear to be; or it is not, and does not appear to be.

Emily Carr

Oh, I wonder if I will ever feel the burst of birth-joy, that knowing that the indescribable, joyous thing that has wooed and wond me has passed through my life and produced one atom of the great reality.

Every thought, good or bad, becomes concrete; it materializes and becomes a reality.

Emile Durkheim

Sociological method as we practice it rests wholly on the basic principle that social facts must be studied as things, that is, as realities external to the individual. There is no principle for which we have received more criticism; but none is more fundamental. Indubitably for sociology to be possible, it must above all have an object all its own. It must take cognizance of a reality which is not in the domain of other sciences... there can be no sociology unless societies exist, and that societies cannot exist if there are only individuals.

Emile Durkheim

Society is not a mere sum of individuals. Rather, the system formed by their association represents a specific reality which has its own characteristics... The group thinks, feels, and acts quite differently from the way in which its members would were they isolated. If, then, we begin with the individual, we shall be able to understand nothing of what takes place in the group.

Henri Poincare

When the logician has resolved each demonstration into a host of elementary operations, all of them correct, he will not yet be in possession of the whole reality, that indefinable something that constitutes the unity ... Now pure logic cannot give us this view of the whole; it is to intuition that we must look for it.

Henri Matisse

Precision is not reality

Henri Nouwen

In solitude we become aware that we were together before we came together and that life is not a creation of our will but rather an obedient response to the reality of our being united.

Heinrich Boll

I need very little reality.

Heather Boushey

The reality is that the overwhelming majority of women are working and they're going to be part of the labor force for a long time. While they may choose to take time off, they're doing things that women in '60s weren't doing.

Helen Reddy

Sometimes it seems like you and me against the world.

Hideo Kojima

Games are a way of escaping reality - that's why you need heroic factor.

Henry Waxman

We're seeing the reality of a lot of the North Pole starting to evaporate, and we could get to a tipping point. Because if it evaporates to a certain point - they have lanes now where ships can go that couldn't ever sail through before. And if it gets to a point where it evaporates too much, there's a lot of tundra that's being held down by that ice cap.

Henry Ward Beecher

Do not be afraid because the, community teems with excitement. Silence and death are dreadful. The rush of life, the vigor of earnest men, the conflict of realities, invigorate, cleanse, and establish the truth.

Henry James

We must for dear life make our own counter-realities.

Henry Cloud

Christianity is not about morality. It's about reality.

Henry Fielding

Now in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.