Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mircea Eliade

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.

Mike McGavick

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.

John Yarmuth

When your voice contradicts reality and truth, the only way to create space for it is to discredit reality and truth.

John Ruskin

Shadows are in reality, when the sun is shining, the most conspicuous thing in a landscape, next to the highest lights.

John Ruskin

What is in reality cowardice and faithlessness, we call charity, and consider it the part of benevolence sometimes to forgive men's evil practice for the sake of their accurate faith, and sometimes to forgive their confessed heresy for the sake of their admirable practice.

John Polkinghorne

I'm a very passionate believer in the unity of knowledge. There is one world of reality - one world of our experience that we're seeking to describe.

John Polkinghorne

I need the binocular approach of science and religion if I am to do any sort of justice to the deep and rich reality of the world in which we live.

John Polkinghorne

Theology differs from science in many respects, because of its different subject matter, a personal God who cannot be put to the test in the way that the impersonal physical world can be subjected to experimental enquiry. Yet science and theology have this in common, that each can be, and should be defended as being investigations of what is, the search for increasing verisimilitude in our understanding of reality.

Matt Taibbi

It may be that America has become too big and complicated for most people to deal with being part of. People are longing for a smaller, stupider reality.

Meg Rosoff

I was pretty far gone, but not so far gone that I thought anyone with half a toehold in reality would think what we were doing was a good idea.

May Sinclair

Knowing reality is knowing that you can't lose it.

Maya Angelou

A single fantasy can transform a million realities.

Max Weber

All the analysis of infinite reality which the finite human mind can conduct rests on the tacit assumption that only a finite portion of this reality constitutes the object of scientific investigation, and that only it is 'important' in the sense of being 'worthy of being known.

Max Weber

Daily and hourly, the politician inwardly has to overcome a quite trivial and all-too-human enemy: a quite vulgar vanity.

Max Weber

All knowledge of cultural reality, as may be seen, is always knowledge from particular points of view.

Max Beesley

I appreciate some people enjoy reality TV and enjoy being a part of it - and I do watch it - but it isn't for me.

Max Beckmann

What is important to me in my work is the identity that is hidden behind so-called reality. I search for a bridge from the given present tot the invisible, rather as a famous cabalist once said, 'If you wish to grasp the invisible, penetrate as deeply as possible into the visible'.

Max Beckmann

What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality. I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality. It may sound paradoxical, but it is in fact reality which forms the mystery of our existence.

Max Beckmann

The greatest mystery of all is reality.

Max Beckmann

The individual representation of the object, treated sympathetically or antipathetically, is highly necessary and is an enrichment to the world in form. The elimination of the human relationship causes the vacuum which makes all of us suffer in various degrees - an individual alteration of the details of the object represented is necessary in order to display on the canvas the whole physicals reality.

Max Beckmann

I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality.

Max Beerbohm

All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

The number and richness of man's signifiers always surpasses the set of defined objects that could be termed signifieds. The symbolic function must always precede its object and does not encounter reality except when it precedes it into the imaginary...

Matthew Rhys

In my head, I think I'd make a perfect spy, but in reality, I don't think I'd fare very well.

Matthew Quick

What is reality if it isn't how we feel about things?

Matthew McConaughey

There are certain nights you and your image just aren't in the same bed.

Matthew Bourne

It's one of the things that looks good written down, but the reality is that you think about the pieces you're doing and try to bear in mind everyone in the audience.

Mark Skousen

The reality is that business and investment spending are the true leading indicators of the economy and the stock market. If you want to know where the stock market is headed, forget about consumer spending and retail sales figures. Look to business spending, price inflation, interest rates, and productivity gains.

Mark Shields

Since the election, since the formation of a government, the death in Iraq has increased. The United States stands by, helpless to do anything about it. That's the reality, not George Bush's revisionist history!

Marina Abramovic

The world doesn't need an artist who shows reality as it is

Marina Abramovic

We are actually living in a million parallel realities every single minute.

Marilynne Robinson

We inhabit, we are part of, a reality for which explanation is much too poor and small.

Marilynne Robinson

The classic theology of my tradition comes from the French Renaissance. [William] Shakespeare was born in 1564, the year [John] Calvin died, and that theology was very influential in England in his lifetime. I think Shakespeare was attentive to questions raised by it, about human nature, history, reality itself. I find the two literatures to be mutually illuminating.