Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul de Man

What we call ideology is precisely the confusion of linguistic with natural reality, of reference with phenomenalism

Paul Dirac

If we are honest - and scientists have to be - we must admit that religion is a jumble of false assertions, with no basis in reality.

Paul Davies

Matter is regarded as being constituted by a region of space in which the field is extremely intense . . . . . . There is no place in this new kind of Physics both for the field and matter, for the field is the only reality.

Paul Davies

The Universe is not a collection of objects, but is an inseparable web of vibrating energy patterns in which no one component has reality independently from the entirety. Included in the entirety is the observer.

Patrick Wilson

For me, it doesn't matter whether it's a comedy, a Western or horror. As long as you've got a good story to tell, the genre almost doesn't matter. As an actor playing the role, it's all rooted in reality.

Frank Lampard

If you're going to be a man that reads the papers and takes everything as gospel truth, that's a sign of who you are, that isn't a sign of the reality.

Frank Luntz

To Americans, Washington is a giant cesspool. It's no wonder almost half of Americans (47%) now agree with the statement 'I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore.' It's us (the people) versus them (the politicians), and it doesn't matter what primary color you wear [...] I was involved in the 1994 elections, and I will never forget the arrogance of the Democrats back then, and how they refused to accept the electoral reality facing them. It is no different today.

Maggie Stiefvater

So here's my theory, and this is such crap science, I don't have to tell you. It's science without microscopes, blood tests, or reality.

Maggie Stiefvater

I have a certain avoidance of reality that makes fantasy an ideal choice for me.

Madame de Stael

There is no reality on this earth except religion and the power of love; all the rest is even more fugitive than life itself.

Haruki Murakami

That's gotta be one of the principles behind reality. Accepting things that are hard to comprehend, and leaving them that way.

Haruki Murakami

The best way to think about reality, I had decided, was to get as far away from it as possible.

Haruki Murakami

The honour of physical decline is waiting, and you have to get used to that reality.

Haruki Murakami

I'm not afraid to die. What I'm afraid of is having reality get the better of me, of having reality leave me behind.

Haruki Murakami

I realize now that the reality of things is not something you convey to people but something you make.

Haruki Murakami

In order to pin down reality as realilty, we need another reality to relativize the first. Yet that other reality requires a third reality to serve as its grounding. An endless chain is created within our consciousness, and it is the maintenance of this chain which produces the sensation that we are actually here, that we ourselves exist.

Haruki Murakami

Don't let appearances fool you. There's always only one reality!

Haruki Murakami

Things may look different to you than they did before. I've had that experience myself. But don't let appearances fool you. There's only one reality.

Haruki Murakami

It's just that you're about to do something out of the ordinary. And after you do something like that, the everyday look of things might seem to change a little. Things may look different to you than they did before. But don't let appearances fool you. There's always only one reality.

Haruki Murakami

We were, the two of us, still fragmentary beings, just beginning to sense the presence of an unexpected, to be-aquired reality that would fill us and make us whole.

Haruki Murakami

It depends on which reality you take and which reality I take.” (p. 318).

Haruki Murakami

The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality.

Haruki Murakami

I was reduced to pure concept. My flesh had dissolved; my form had dissipated. I floated in space. Liberated of my corporeal being, but without dispensation to go anywhere else.I was adrift in the void. Somewhere across the fine line separating nightmare from reality.

Haruki Murakami

We're both looking at the same moon, in the same world. We're connected to reality by the same line. All I have to do is quietly draw it towards me.

Hans Urs von Balthasar

The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love.

Harlan Coben

Genius is a curse. That's how I look at it. Some think that the brilliant comprehend the universe in a way the rest of us can't. They see the world how it truly is—and that reality is so horrible the lose their minds. Clarity leads to insanity.

Hanan Ashrawi

Beyond the emotionalism and the obvious sense of relief on all sides, I think that there is a recognition that reality may intrude, that perhaps the steps ahead and the days ahead are going to be much more difficult than one expects.

Hanan Ashrawi

It looks like we will have a bi-polar reality

Gustav Stresemann

I must begin by saying something about the old Germany. That Germany, too, suffered from superficial judgment, because appearances and reality were not always kept apart in people's minds.

Gustave Flaubert

Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.

Greg Bear

When all hopes are lost, only then does reality acquire that sharp focus that defines who we are and what we have become.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Hell is God's great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.