Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hillary Clinton

Democracy is still a radical idea in a world where we often confuse images with realities, words with actions.

Herbert Marcuse

To the degree to which they correspond to the given reality, thought and behavior express a false consciousness, responding to and contributing to the preservation of a false order of facts. And this false consciousness has become embodied in the prevailing technical apparatus which in turn reproduces it.

Herbert Marcuse

Where these reduced (operational - E.W.) concepts govern the analysis of the human reality, individual or social, mental or material, they arrive at a false concreteness - a concreteness isolated from the conditions which constitute its reality. In this context, the operational treatment of the concept assumes a political function. The individual and his behavior are analyzed in a therapeutic sense - adjustment to his society. Thought and expression, theory and practice are to be brought in line with the facts of his existence without leaving room for the conceptual critique of these facts.

Herbert Marcuse

Precisely because Galilean science is, in the formation of its concepts, the technic of a specific Lebenswelt , it does not and cannot transcend this Lebenswelt . It remains essentially within the basic experiential framework and within the universe of ends set by this reality.

Herbert Marcuse

Thought that accepts reality as given is no thought at all.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

For a while these reveries provided an outlet for his imagination; they were a satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality, a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy's wing.

Evgeny Morozov

In reality, quitting Facebook is much more problematic than the company's executives suggest, if only because users cannot extract all the intangible social capital they have generated on the site and export it elsewhere.

Evgeny Morozov

There is this group of people who love innovation. Those people want to innovate, and they think the Internet is a wonderful tool for innovation, which is true. But you also have to remember that much of that innovation is constrained within the realities of the foreign policy.

Italo Calvino

Whether there is such a thing as Reality, of which the various levels are only partial aspects, or whether there are only levels, is something that literature cannot decide. Literature recognizes rather the *reality of the levels.*

Isabelle Huppert

It was sometimes 60 degrees [Celsius], but it's very strange, cinema makes you forget reality most of the time. You are more concerned about your inner feelings, or your work.

Ira Sachs

All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That’s what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment.

Jack Nicholson

There's probably no one who understands Method acting better academically than I do, or actually uses it more in his work. But it's funny - nobody really sees that. It's perception versus reality, I suppose.

Jack Johnson

We've all got the blood on our hands, we only receive what we demand.

Jack Kerouac

You seek identity in the midst of indistinguishab le chaos, in sprawling nameless reality.

Jack Black

The greatest gift in life is the ability to think great thoughts and have the strength to take action so that those thoughts become reality in this wonderful and abundant world.

J. C. Watts

I'm looking forward to the day when America will mature to the point that we are a color-blind society. I'm not so sure that in politics that will ever be reality, because politics has a way of separating us based on skin color.

J. C. Ryle

There is a vast quantity of religion current in the world which is not true, genuine Christianity. It passes muster, it satisfies sleepy consciences; but it is not good money. It is not the authentic reality that called itself Christianity in the beginning.

Isabel Allende

Only that, nothing more - a tiny beam of light to show some hidden aspect of reality, to help decipher and understand it and thus to initiate, if possible, a change in the conscience of some readers.

Isabel Allende

She intended to swallow the world and he lived crushed by reality.

Isabel Allende

I began to wonder whether anything truly existed, whether reality wasn't an unformed and gelatinous substance only half-captured by my senses....If that were true, each of us was living in absolute isolation. The thought terrified me. I was consoled by the idea that I could take that gelatin and mold it to create anything I wanted...At times I felt that the universe fabricated from the power of the imagination had stronger and more lasting contours than the blurred realm of the flesh-and-blood creatures around me.

Isabel Allende

Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change.

Irving Howe

Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.

Irving Kristol

What rules the world is idea, because ideas define the way reality is perceived.

Irving Kristol

A neoconservative is a liberal who's been mugged by reality. A neoliberal is a liberal who's been mugged by reality but has refused to press charges.

Irving Kristol

A conservative is a liberal mugged by reality.

Tillie Olsen

Be critical. Women have the right to say:This is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades.

Greg Evigan

I'm a tek addict myself. No matter where you are, people are looking for something to tear them away from reality, challenge their state of mind.

Greg Fitzsimmons

We are now able to create virtual realities on computers. Are we all living in one created by someone in the future?

Greg Giraldo

The reality is I'm not a 'get knocked down and come back harder' kind of guy.

Greg Gutfeld

Fact is, the desperate desire to be cool has skewed our culture toward nihilism, carelessness, and ineptitude. It is now cool to be an idiot. A jackass. It's cool to be a failure, as long as your failure is the basis for a reality show.

Glenn Gould

Whenever one honestly defies a tradition, one becomes, in reality, the more responsible to it.

Gerry Rafferty

This city desert makes you feel so cold. It's got so many people, but it's got no soul.

Georgette Mosbacher

Reality is the only place you can deal from. If you're still worrying about the way things should be, you haven't even approached the starting line.