Reality Quotes - Page 24

• You must be vulnerable to be sensitive to reality. And to be vulnerable is just another way of saying that one has nothing more to lose. I don't have anything but darkness to lose.

  Bob Dylan

  Darkness, Way, Vulnerable

  Bob Dylan (2007). “Dylan on Dylan: The Essential Interviews”, Hodder & Stoughton

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• Everyone's the same.  All brains are contained by their reality frame and chained to the terrain that they're trained not to change and once you see what I've explained you've hit the jackpot.

  Eyedea

  Brain, Jackpot, Terrain

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• In order for an ideal to become a reality, there must be a person, a personality to translate it.

  Jesse Jackson

  Order, Personality, Translate

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• You can have all the muskets you want! You can even have assault muskets!...Their (the NRA's) paranoid fear of a possible dystopic future prevents us from addressing our actual dystopic present. We can't even begin to address 30,000 gun deaths that are actually, in reality, happening in this country every year because a few of us must remain vigilant against the rise of an imaginary Hitler.

  Jon Stewart

  Country, Gun, Years

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• The Difference Engine can in reality (as has been already partly explained) do nothing but add; and any other processes, not excepting those of simple subtraction, multiplication and division, can be performed by it only just to that extent in which it is possible, by judicious mathematical arrangement and artifices, to reduce them to a series of additions.

  Ada Lovelace

  Simple, Differences, Add

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• It is no wonder if, under the pressure of these possibilities of suffering, men are accustomed to moderate their claims to happiness - just as the pleasure principle itself, indeed, under the influence of the external world, changed into the more modest reality principle -, if a man thinks himself happy merely to have escaped unhappiness or to have survived his suffering, and if in general the task of avoiding suffering pushes that of obtaining pleasure into the background.

  Sigmund Freud

  Men, Thinking, Suffering

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• The pleasure principle long persists, however, as the method of working employed by the sexual instincts, which are so hard to 'educate', and, starting from those instincts, or in the ego itself, it often succeeds in overcoming the reality principle, to the detriment of the organism as a whole.

  Sigmund Freud

  Long, Ego, Overcoming

  Sigmund Freud (2015). “Beyond the Pleasure Principle”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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• Chess is infinite, and one has to make only one ill-considered move, and one's opponent's wildest dreams will become reality.

  David Bronstein

  Dream, Moving, Opponents

  David Bronstein (1991). “200 Open Games”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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• Reality is captured in the categorical nets of Language only at the expense of fatal distortion.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Language, Distortion, Expenses

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• Drinking is in reality an occupation which employs a considerable portion of the time of many people; and to conduct it in the most rational and agreeable manner is one of the great arts of living.

  James Boswell

  Art, Drinking, People

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1786). “Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales”, p.178

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• If I do not know reality, the unknown, how can I search for it? Surely it must come but I cannot go after it. If I go after it I am going after something which is the known, projected by me; by my own mind.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Mind, My Own, Knows

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1954). “The First and Last Freedom”, Castrovilli Giuseppe

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• I'm lucky to have family around me. Otherwise, I'll be taking the risk of falling in love with myself. But there are always people close to me who I trust, who will scold me and pull my ears if I need it. Fame isolates people from reality. That happens to many artists, and I don't want it to happen to me.

  Shakira

  Falling In Love, Artist, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It is a task of art to express clear vision of reality.

  Piet Mondrian

  Art, Vision, Tasks

  Piet Mondrian, Harry Holtzman, Martin S. James (1986). “The new art--the new life: the collected writings of Piet Mondrian”, Twayne Pub

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• What we call progress consists in coordinating ideas with realities.

  Alfred Korzybski

  Ideas, Progress, Coordinating

  Alfred Korzybski (1974). “Manhood of humanity”, p.28, Рипол Классик

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• The purpose of art is to represent the meaning of things. This represents the true reality, not external aspects.

  Aristotle

  Art, Purpose, Aspect

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• I take for granted that for the imaginative writer, the exercise of the imagination is part of the basic process of coping with reality, just as actors need to act all the time to make up for some deficiency in their sense of themselves.

  J. G. Ballard

  Exercise, Imagination, Needs

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• If we lived for reality, we'd be dead, every last one of us. Only dreams keep us going.

  Michael Shurtleff

  Dream, Acting, Lasts

  Michael Shurtleff (2009). “Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part”, p.33, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• But God has the most fun with artists and writers: he inflames them with the desire to rival his own creations, then douses their overheated ambitions with a cold spray from the garden hose of reality. If they persist, he slams them to the ground and tweaks them on the proboscis for good measure. A fortunate few break free and prosper; the others lament the day they didn't become bank clerks.

  Rick Bayan

  Fun, Ambition, Garden

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• The realm of quanta is how I have intrinsically approached and viewed reality since I was born.

  Vanna Bonta

  Quantum, Born, Realms

  "Vanna Bonta Talks About Quantum fiction: Author Interview". Interview with Laurel van der Linde, 2007.

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• People at large are becoming more aware that there is much more to reality and to themselves than what meets the eye.

  Vanna Bonta

  Eye, People, Becoming

  "Vanna Bonta Talks About Quantum fiction: Author Interview". Interview with Laurel van der Linde, 2007.

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• Firstly, as a Buddhist monk, I hold that violence is not good. Secondly, I am a firm believer in the Gandian ethic of passive resistance. And thirdly, in reality, violence is not our strength.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Passive Resistance, Violence

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• Before a vision (dream) can become a reality, it must be owned by every member of the group.

  Phil Jackson

  Dream, Vision, Groups

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• The problem with kitsch is that it is all too profound, manipulating deep libidinal and ideological forces, while true art knows how to remain at the surface, how to subtract it's subject from it's deepest context of historical reality. The same goes for contemporary art, where we often encounter brutal attempts to return to the Real, to remind the spectator or reader that he is perceiving a fiction, to awaken him from a sweet dream.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Dream, Sweet, Art

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• The work of an artist who attempts lovingly to embrace reality, will ring false, will degenerate into kitsch.

  Karsten Harries

  Artist, Kitsch, Degenerates

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• People for whom art is religion can say, "What I love about art is that it points to a higher reality." Well, fine, but the time comes when the smart thing for such a person to do is to let go of the fun of the art and get into the hard work of attaining and understanding that higher reality, unmixed with worldly games.

  Jim Woodring

  Letting Go, Art, Fun

  Interview with Ross Simonini, staging.believermag.com. 2008.

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