Quotes about reality
reality models
A picture is a model of reality. Ludwig Wittgenstein
reality moats rift
...since social relationships are always ambiguous, since my thought is only a unit, since my thoughts create rifts as much as they unite, since my words establish contacts by being spoken and create isolation by remaining unspoken, since an immense moat separates the subjective certitude that I have for myself from the objective reality that I represent to others, since I never stop finding myself guilty even though I feel I am innocent....
reality differences indifference
Where there is no difference, there is only indifference. Louis Nizer
reality slinkies staircases
If time is a staircase, reality is a Slinky. Louis Menand
reality people culture
We have much wisdom to gain by learning to understand other people's cultures and permitting ourselves to accept that there is more than one version of reality.
reality years two
People make their own reality. That was what Praxis had taught him years ago. A hundred people can witness the exact same event, and give two hundred and three different accountings of it. Sherrilyn Kenyon
reality years games
The reality is our season prepared us so well that if we have to play Duke in the second game, we've done that three times this year. We've played North Carolina and Duke back-to-back that this would be the third time. We're just very prepared for this moment. Shay Doron
reality humanity dying
The belief in the probability of death with dignity is our, and society’s, attempt to deal with the reality of what is all too frequently a series of destructive events that involve by their very nature the disintegration of the dying person’s humanity. I have not often seen much dignity in the process by which we die. Sherwin B. Nuland
reality people attention
Everyone is always having their attention divided between the world of people [they're] with and this 'other' reality. Sherry Turkle
reality getting-high anything-goes
Everybody gets high, everybody gets low, these are the days when anything goes. Sheryl Crow
reality appreciate easy
You appreciate that it is very easy to die and you have to arrange your life to cope with that reality. Niki Lauda
reality may illusion
Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality. Nicolas Chamfort
reality fiction
Good fiction creates its own reality. Nora Roberts
reality world spirit
God is a reality of spirit He cannot be conceived as an object, not even as the very highest object. God is not to be found in the world of objects. Nikolai Berdyaev
reality changing-reality existence
Time is the product of changing realities, beings, existences.
reality men
so few in reality are the true necessities of man Nikos Kazantzakis
reality thinking insane
The scientists from Franklin to Morse were clear thinkers and did not produce erroneous theories. The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane. Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality. Nikola Tesla
reality done glimpse
When we begin to glimpse the reality of God, the natural reaction is to worship him. Not to have that reaction is a fairly sure sign that we haven't yet really understood who he is or what he's done. N. T. Wright
reality quality mysterious
I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities which direct us towards the ultimate reality. Morris Graves
reality thinking 80s-and-90s
There's reality shows and things like that and I think 'Parenthood''s kind of a throwback to what we used to have back in the '70s, '80s and '90s. People want to see this again, and I feel like it's just a solid, good show. Monica Potter
reality thinking gone-away
You see the images that the public is demanding. Why more reality-based TV? You'd think that after the first Survivor it would have gone away, but it hasn't. The public demands it because they get all caught up in the personal stories, and want to see more and more. Montel Williams
reality men identity
The crude product of nature, the object fashioned by the industry of man, acquire their reality, their identity, only to the extent of their participation in a transcendent reality. Mircea Eliade
reality historical looks
Psychoanalysis justifies its importance by asserting that it forces you to look to and accept reality. But what sort of reality? A reality conditioned by the materialistic and scientific ideology of psychoanalysis, that is, a historical product...
reality space world
When the sacred manifests itself in any hierophany, there is not only a break in the homogeneity of space; there is also a revelation of an absolute reality, opposed to the nonreality of the vast surrounding expanse. The manifestation of the sacred ontologically founds the world. In the homogenous and infinite expanse, in which no point of reference is possible and hence no orientation can be established, the hierophany reveals an absolute fixed point, a center.
reality men our-world
Man becomes aware of the Sacred because it manifests itself, shows itself, as something wholly different from the Profane ... In his encounters with the Sacred, man experiences a reality that does not belong to our world yet is encountered in and through objects or events that are part of the world.
reality two people
From the very first time I talked to Safeco employees, I said the reality was expenses were too high and the reality is two-thirds of our expenses are people, so the reality is there will be effects on people. Mike McGavick
reality voice space
When your voice contradicts reality and truth, the only way to create space for it is to discredit reality and truth. John Yarmuth
reality security ultimate understanding
The ultimate security is your understanding of reality.
reality feelings needs
Individuals who were submerged in reality, merely feeling their needs, emerge from reality and perceive the causes of their needs. Paulo Freire
reality creative unveiling
Whereas banking education anesthetizes and inhibits creative power, problem-posing education involves a constant unveiling of reality. The former attempts to maintain the submersion of consciousness; the latter strives for the emergence of consciousness and critical intervention in reality.
reality land people
It's no sin to make a critical study of Brazil's reality. A small percentage own land. Most people don't.
reality men tangible
To affirm that men and women are persons and as persons should be free, and yet to do nothing tangible to make this affirmation a reality, is a farce.
reality people world
In problem-posing education, people develop their power to perceive critically the way they exist in the world with which and in which they find themselves; they come to see the world not as a static reality, but as a reality in process, in transformation.