Quotes about reality
reality trying fiction
Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities. Iain Banks
reality precise
What is generally termed reality is, to be precise, a frothy nothing. Hugo Ball
reality different roles
In reality, for me every role is completely different. Hugh Dancy
reality our-world sea
Fish in the water represent pure potential. If the water is not clear, we do not know if they exist at all. To get them to bite something connected to a line and pull them into our world is managing a birth that brings these creatures from the realm of mysytery into the world of reality. It is a kind of creation. Howell Raines
reality world alive
Education becomes most rich and alive when it confronts the reality of moral conflict in the world. Howard Zinn
reality self hands
Behind the deceptive words designed to entice people into supporting violence -- words like democracy, freedom, self-defense, national security -- there is the reality of enormous wealth in the hands of a few, while billions of people in the world are hungry, sick, homeless.
reality not-interested
I'm not interested in observed reality. Howard Barker
reality order mind
The aim of the poet is to inform or delight, or to combine together, in what he says, both pleasure and applicability to life. In instructing, be brief in what you say in order that your readers may grasp it quickly and retain it faithfully. Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full. Fiction invented in order to please should remain close to reality. Horace
reality world
The presence of others who see what we see and hear what we hear assures us of the reality of the world and ourselves. Hannah Arendt
reality world ideology
The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.
reality animal ideas
A theology which is not based on revelation as a given reality but treats God as an idea would be as mad as a zoology which is no longer sure of the physical, tangible existence of animals.
reality thinking five-senses
Ideological thinking becomes emancipated from the reality that we perceive with our five senses, and insists on a 'truer' reality concealed behind all perceptible things, dominating them from this place of concealment and requiring a sixth sense that enables us to become aware of it.
reality differences victory
The most striking difference between ancient and modern sophists is that the ancients were satisfied with a passing victory of argument at the expense of truth, whereas the moderns want a more lasting victory at the expense of reality.
reality expression adherence
Clichés, stock phrases, adherence to conventional, standardized codes of expression and conduct have the socially recognized function of protecting us against reality.
reality expression forever
Images detached from every aspect of life merge into a common stream, and the former unity of life is lost forever. Apprehended in a partial way, reality unfolds in a new generality as a pseudo-world apart, solely as an object of contemplation. The tendency toward the specialization of images-of-the-world finds its highest expression in the world of the autonomous image, where deceit deceives itself. The spectacle in its generality is a concrete inversion of life, and, as such the autonomous movement of non-life. Guy deBord
reality people unity
In societies where modern conditions of productions prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into representation. The images detached from every aspect of life fuse in a common stream in which the unity of this life can no longer be re-established. Reality considered partially unfolds, in its own general unity as a pseudo-world apart, an object of mere contemplation . . . The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.
reality world wave
Learn to be one with who you are in Reality, and the waves of a thousand passing worlds cannot wash you away. Guy Finley
reality want down-and
Do the moment-to-moment work of dropping anything that wants to drag you down, and Reality itself will see to it that you rise.
reality self instinct
His (the theologian) basic instinct of self preservation forbids him to respect reality at any point or even to let it get a word in. Friedrich Nietzsche
reality language distortion
Reality is captured in the categorical nets of Language only at the expense of fatal distortion.
reality blood practice
Parasitism is the only practice of the church; with its ideal of anaemia, its holiness, draining all blood, all love, all hope for life; the beyond as the will to negate every reality; the cross as the mark of recognition for the most subterranean conspiracy that ever existed-against health, beauty, whatever has turned out well, courage, spirit, graciousness of the soul, against life itself.
reality creation poet
The great poet draws his creations only from out of his own reality.
reality mind bears
Doth the Reality of sensible things consist in being perceived? or, is it something distinct from their being perceived, and that bears no relation to the mind? George Berkeley
reality imagination faces
An Irishman's imagination never lets him alone, never convinces him, never satisfies him; but it makes him that he can't face reality nor deal with it nor handle it nor conquer it: he can only sneer at them that do, and be 'agreeable to strangers', like a good-for-nothing woman on the streets. George Bernard Shaw
reality mars nikon
Small, portable digital cameras that exceed the performance of an off-the-shelf Nikon using 35mm slide film are further away from current reality than the proposed NASA manned Mars mission, although I expect both to happen sometime during my lifetime. Galen Rowell
reality tests resistance
If it is, in reality, capitalism that is the motor force behind the destructive forms of globalization, then it must be in their capacity to neutralize or transform this particular mode of exploitation that one can best test these various forms of resistance to the West. Fredric Jameson
reality ontology utopia
Utopia would seem to offer the spectacle of one of those rare phenomena whose concept is indistinguishable from its reality, whose ontology coincides with its representation.
reality imagination would-be
If it should turn out that the whole of physical reality can be described by a finite set of equations, I would be disappointed. I would feel that the Creator had been uncharacteristically lacking in imagination. Freeman Dyson
reality names speak
Only our concept of time makes it possible for us to speak of the Day of Judgment by that name in reality it is a summary court in perpetual session. Franz Kafka
reality secret desire
It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them. Erich Maria Remarque
reality people feelings
I had the feeling of slipping down a smooth bottomless pit. It had nothing to do with Breuer and the people. It had nothing to do with Pat even. It was the melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them; that love begins with a human being but does not end in him; and that everything can be there: a human being, love, happiness, life — and that yet in some terrible way it is always too little, and grows ever less the more it seems.
reality expectations resistance
Psychoanalysis is essentially a theory of unconscious strivings, of resistance, of falsification of reality according to one's subjective needs and expectations. Erich Fromm
reality men position
Man can only know the nagation, never the position of ultimate reality.