Quotes about reality
reality negative might
Reality might be described as the eternal equipoise of positive and negative. Rachel Cusk
reality numbers age
We live in a scientific age, yet we assume that knowledge of science is the prerogative of only a small number of human beings, isolated and priestlike in their laboratories. This is not true. The materials of science are the materials of life itself. Science is part of the reality of living; it is the way, the how and the why for everything in our experience. Rachel Carson
reality men vanity
We have looked first at man with his vanities and greed and his problems of a day or a year; and then only, and from this biased point of view, we have looked outward at the earth he has inhabited so briefly and at the universe in which our earth is so minute a part. Yet these are the great realities, and against them we see our human problems in a different perspective. Perhaps if we reversed the telescope and looked at man down these long vistas, we should find less time and inclination to plan for our own destruction. Rachel Carson
reality
Science is part of the reality of living; it is the what, the how, and the why of everything in our experience. Rachel Carson
reality lust bucks
Gotta be more than grabbing nines to buck tin in, gotta be more than just to lust women, gotta be more than platinum Rolexes. Puff Daddy
reality ideas
A thought is an idea in transit. Pythagoras
reality words-of-wisdom function
The object of knowledge is what exists and its function to know about reality. Plato
reality political world
The philosopher is in love with truth, that is, not with the changing world of sensation, which is the object of opinion, but with the unchanging reality which is the object of knowledge. Plato
reality trying psychedelic
To me, the psychedelic experience is the experience of trying to make sense of reality. Terence McKenna
reality culture language
Cultures are virtual realities made of language. Terence McKenna
reality tests examination
Psychedelics are actually a kind of miraculous reality that can stand the test of objective examination. Terence McKenna
reality thinking long-ago
I started out in psychedelic drugs, and people said it was a flight from reality. It still is a flight from reality, but I think reality is now a bit more scary than the drugs we used to fly from it, so long ago. Terence McKenna
reality thinking perspective
What is revealed through the psychedelic experience, I think, is a higher dimensional perspective on reality. And I use 'higher dimensional' in the mathematical sense. Terence McKenna
reality years world
For me, what all these years of psychedelic taking came to was a new model of how reality works, a new model of what the world is. Terence McKenna
reality space understanding
The world is mental in some way that we do not yet understand, but that which we're edging toward understanding. And the world is made of language. I can't say that enough. Whenever we get into these discussions about reality, or effects in space and time, we are operating outside this assumption that the world is made of language. Terence McKenna
reality paris dmt
If you go to Paris you know more about reality than people who don't. If you smoke DMT you know more about reality than people who don't. Terence McKenna
reality ordinary robots
Niagaras of beauty are flowing by untapped by ordinary consciousness. . . . Would that we could send robots who could film these psychedelic realities. . . . The presence of so much beauty is an argument to me that truth cannot be far away. Terence McKenna
reality psycho
Only psychos and shamans create their own reality Terence McKenna
reality astonishment response
Astonishment is the proper response to reality. Terence McKenna
reality tunnels light
There’s light at the end of the tunnel. The problem is that tunnel is in the back of your mind. And if you don’t go to the back side of your mind you will never see the light at the end of the tunnel. And once you see it, then the task becomes to empower it in yourself and other people. Spread it as a reality. God did not retire to the seventh heaven, God is some kind of lost continent IN the human mind. Terence McKenna
reality facts hallucinations
What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination. Terence McKenna
reality trying way
The novelist can't successfully depict such horrifying reality. But she can, and must, try, to bear witness. There are many ways of doing this; the mode I prefer is indirect. Teju Cole
reality people enough
My function is, as objectively and accurately as I can, to present reality to people out there, and doing that as quickly as we do is quite difficult enough, thank you. Ted Koppel
reality want
Reality is what we want it to be or what we do not want it to be, but it is not our wanting or our not wanting that makes it so. Randall Jarrell
reality power quality
Power obeys reality, and not appearances; power is according to quality, and not quantity. Ralph Waldo Emerson
reality magic dull
He is a dull observer whose experience has not taught him the reality and force of magic, as well as of chemistry. Ralph Waldo Emerson
reality accepting
You learn to accept your own reality Shania Twain
reality tennis world
Tennis is a world out of touch with reality Sebastien Grosjean
reality ira sinn-fein
The reality is that when Sinn Fein gets into these talks, there will be no more options for armed republicanism, for the IRA.
reality thinking people
I think that there's a tendency in this town to try to selectively pick snapshots when the broader reality is that we have a record of results and that we're getting things done for the American people. Scott McClellan
reality important finding-out-the-truth
The most important thing about my profession is finding the truth, finding the reality of these shows. Shuler Hensley
reality light engagement
Computer mediation seems to bathe action in a more conditional light: perhaps it happened; perhaps it didn't. Without the layeredrichness of direct sensory engagement, the symbolic medium seems thin, flat, and fragile. Shoshana Zuboff
reality tvs reality-tv
I love watching reality TV, but being part of making it was just demoralizing. Sia Furler