Objective Reality Quotes

• There is an objective reality out there, but we view it through the spectacles of our beliefs, attitudes, and values.

  David Myers

  Attitude, Reality, Views

  David G. Myers (1993). “Psicología social”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• As far as I know, there is no proof whatever of the existence of an objective reality apart from our senses, and I do not see why we should accept the outside world as such solely by virtue of our senses.

  M. C. Escher

  Reality, World, Virtue

  "On Being a Graphic Artist" by M. C. Escher,

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• Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

  George Orwell

  Dream, Time, Peace

  Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 1, ch. 3 (1949) See Orwell 19

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• He who controls the past controls the future.

  Laozi

  Future, Past, Political Language

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• There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality.

  Thomas Nagel

  Reality, Objectivity, Admitting

  Thomas Nagel (1991). “Mortal Questions : Canto”, p.196, Cambridge University Press

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• Radical constructivism, thus, is radical because it breaks with convention and develops a theory of knowledge in which knowledge does not reflect an 'objective' ontological reality.

  Paul Watzlawick

  Reality, Doe, Break

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• Old Newtonian physics claimed that things have an objective reality separate from our perception of them. Quantum physics, and particularly Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, reveal that, as our perception of an object changes, the object itself literally changes.

  Marianne Williamson

  Reality, Uncertainty Principle, Perception

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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• Objective reality - otherwise known as the truth - matters.

  Justin Raimondo

  Reality, Matter, Objectives

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• There is no objective reality. But there is only an illusion of consciousness, there is only an objectivication of reality, which was created by the spirit. The origin of life is creativity, freedom; and the personality, subject, and spirit are the representatives of that origin, but not the nature, not the object.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Creativity, Reality, Origin Of Life

  "Dream and Reality: An Essay in Autobiography". Book by Nikolai Berdyaev, 1949.

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• I have many moods, and there is no objective reality. And I kind of live by that.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Reality, Kind, Mood

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• I don't believe there's any such thing as objective reality. It's only reality as we experience it.

  James Nachtwey

  Photography, Believe, Reality

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• I believe that the unity of mind and body is an objective reality. They are not just parts somehow related to each other, but an inseparable whole while functioning. A brain without a body could not think.

  Moshe Feldenkrais

  Believe, Reality, Thinking

  Moshe Feldenkrais (2011). “Embodied Wisdom: The Collected Papers of Moshe Feldenkrais”, p.28, North Atlantic Books

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• There is an objective reality in which my body and mind are one. But I am not here and never have been.

  Sarah Kane

  Reality, Mind, Body

  Sarah Kane, David Greig (2001). “Kane: Complete Plays: Blasted; Phaedra's Love; Cleansed; Crave; 4.48 Psychosis; Skin”, p.209, A&C Black

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• If you think that people should be nice to one another, then by
  all means be nice. But when you project that belief onto the
  people and the world around you as if it were an objective reality,
  or worse still, as if it were their job to be nice to you, you put
  yourself at odds with what is, and suffering will surely follow.

  Adyashanti

  Jobs, Nice, Mean

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• Ultimately, peace is just not about politics. It's about attitudes; about a sense of empathy; about breaking down the divisions that we create for ourselves in our own minds and our own hearts that don't exist in any objective reality, but that we carry with us generation after generation. And I know, because America, we, too, have had to work hard over the decades, slowly, gradually, sometimes painfully, in fits and starts, to keep perfecting our union.

  Barack Obama

  Attitude, Hard Work, Heart

  Remarks by President Obama and Mrs. Obama in Town Hall with Youth of Northern Ireland, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 17, 2013.

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• In this book it is spoken of the Sephiroth and the Paths; of Spirits and Conjurations; of Gods, Spheres, Planes, and many other things which may or may not exist. It is immaterial whether these exist or not. By doing certain things certain results will follow; students are most earnestly warned against attributing objective reality or philosophic validity to any of them.

  Aleister Crowley

  Book, Reality, May

  "Book VI: Liber O". Book by Aleister Crowley, hermetic.com. 1909.

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• Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into teams … but thereby makes us go blind to objective reality.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Team, Reality, Morality

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• Imagination is the means of deep insight and sympathy, the power to conceive and express images removed from normal objective reality.

  William Wordsworth

  Mean, Reality, Imagination

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• In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations.

  Claude Bernard

  Teaching, Pride, Reality

  Claude Bernard (2012). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.57, Courier Corporation

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• For the record: Quantum mechanics does not deny the existence of objective reality. Nor does it imply that mere thoughts can change external events. Effects still require causes, so if you want to change the universe, you need to act on it.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Reality, Events, Doe

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• I don't really believe that documentary is objective reality and fiction is all illusion.

  Mike Mills

  Believe, Reality, Documentaries

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• Robinson Crusoe, the first capitalist hero, is a self-made man who accepts objective reality and then fashions it to his needs through the work ethic, common sense, resilience, technology, and, if need be, racism and imperialism.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Fashion, Hero, Technology

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• The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words. Looking at certain illuminated corners of or cracks within the mirror, the author can see fragments of an objective reality that comprise the physical universe, social communities, political dynamics, and other facets of human existence. Looking in certain other corners of the same mirror, he or she may experience glimpses of a True Self sheltered deftly behind a mask of public proprieties.

  Aberjhani

  Writing, Reality, Mirrors

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.4, Lulu.com

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• Living is not thinking. Thought is formed and guided by objective reality outside us. Living is the constant adjustment of thought to life and life to thought in such a way that we are always growing, always experiencing new things in the old and old things in the new. Thus life is always new.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Reality, Thinking

  Thomas Merton (2011). “Thoughts In Solitude”, p.32, Macmillan

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• Praise God (or whatever it is) from (if direction exists) whom (if personality exists) all blessings (if that word corresponds to any percept of objective reality) flow (if Heraclitus and Bergson and Einstein are correct in stating that everything is more or less flowing about).

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Blessing, Reality, Personality

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