Reality Quotes - Page 27

• I believe framing reality is one of the only ways we can ever be sure it actually exists. In that regard, I feel as though I'm still learning who I am as an artist.

  Sturgill Simpson

  Believe, Artist, Who I Am

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Flaubert's famous sentence, "Madame Bovary, c'est moi" ("Madame Bovary, she is me"), in reality means, " Madame Bovary, c'est nous" ("Madame Bovary, she is us"), in our modern incapacity to live a "good-enough" life.

  Sophie Barthes

  Mean, Good Enough, Modern

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• A man is sane only to the extent that he subscribes to a previously-agreed construction of reality.

  Salman Rushdie

  Men, Construction, Sane

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• I think every person deserves two marriages, because you may not get the first one right. You really never knew. That's why divorce is so big. We all want it to last, but that's not always the reality of it.

  Tichina Arnold

  Divorce, Thinking, Two

  "Exclusive: Tichina Arnold On Her Past Love Mistakes and Preparing to Remarry". Interview with Charli Penn, www.essence.com. March 27, 2012.

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• The self-fulfilled woman is far from reality.

  Anita Brookner

  Self, Fulfilled

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• I've been wrestling with reality for most of my life. I'm pleased to say I've won.

  Emo Philips

  Wrestling

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• Indeed, we have reached a level of complexity where simplicity itself is suspect. For example, the simple reality is that jobs migrate to less difficult nations. It's the old Rule of Capital: Capital goes where it is treated well.

  Oliver DeMille

  Jobs, Simple, Simplicity

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• Thoughts are created in the act of writing. [It is a myth that] you must have something to say in order to write. Reality: You often need to write in order to have anything to say. Thought comes with writing, and writing may never come if it is postponed until we are satisfied that we have something to say...The assertion of write first, see what you had to say later applies to all manifestations of written language, to letters...as well as to diaries and journals

  Frank Smith

  Writing, Order, Needs

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• The development of physics in the twentieth century already has transformed the consciousness of those involved with it. The study (of modern physics) produces insights into the nature of reality very similar to those produced by the study of eastern philosophy.

  Gary Zukav

  Philosophy, Development, Study

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• This harmony that human intelligence believes it discovers in nature - does it exist apart from that intelligence? No, without doubt, a reality completely independent of the spirit which conceives it, sees it or feels it, is an impossibility. A world so exterior as that, even if it existed, would be forever inaccessible to us. But what we call objective reality is, in the last analysis, that which is common to several thinking beings, and could be common to all; this common part, we will see, can be nothing but the harmony expressed by mathematical laws.

  Henri Poincare

  Believe, Independent, Thinking

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• I try not to manipulate reality... What will happen, will happen. Let things be themselves.

  Robert Barry

  Trying, Manipulate, Happens

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• The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Memories, Past

  Jorge Luis Borges (2015). “Ficciones”, p.14, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Woe be to him who tries to isolate one department of knowledge from the rest. All science is one: language, literature and history, physics, mathematics and philosophy; subjects which seem the most remote from one another are in reality connected, or rather they all form a single system.

  Jules Michelet

  Philosophy, Trying, Literature

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• Man does not see reality as it is, but only as he perceives it, and his perception may be mistaken or biased.

  Rudolf Dreikurs

  Men, Perception, Doe

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• The fact that I am standing there and washing bowls is a wondrous reality. I'm being completely myself, following my breath, conscious of my presence, and conscious of my thoughts and actions.

  Nhat Hanh

  Facts, Action, Conscious

  Various, Ledi Sayadaw, Bhikkhu Khantipalo, Nyanaponika Thera, Padmasiri de Silva (2012). “Collected Wheel Publications Volume XVI: Numbers 231–247”, p.66, Buddhist Publication Society

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• Knowing means to penetrate through the surface, in order to arrive at the roots, and hence the causes; knowing means to "see" reality in its nakedness. Knowing does not mean to be in the possession of the truth; it means to penetrate the surface and to strive critically and actively in order to approach truth ever more closely.

  Erich Fromm

  Mean, Order, Roots

  Erich Fromm (2017). “Fascism, Power, and Individual Rights: Escape from Freedom, To Have or To Be?, and The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness”, p.328, Open Road Media

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• 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

  Justice, Needs, World

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• For me, being on set is no different than being at a dinner table or riding the subway next to someone; inevitably their life story is always more compelling than most ads in magazines and most commercials and reality TV and all the stuff we're sold and told is valuable.

  Victoria Mahoney

  Tables, Dinner, Stuff

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• It turns out Dungeons & Dragons is much better on paper than it is in reality.

  Robin Sloan

  Dragons, Dungeons, Paper

  "Robin Sloan’s Low-Tech Triumph". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. November 14, 2012.

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• It's a reality of film festivals that you can't see everything. You're dividing your time between seeing films and utilizing that unique space to have meetings with people that you can't otherwise.

  Thom Powers

  Unique, Space, People

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Pink culture is presented in a positive, pink and gentle way bordering on the thinking that we are "close" to finding a cure. This does not reflect today's reality of more women dying around the world from this disease and the lack of real progress.

  Leanne Pooley

  Real, Thinking, Progress

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Television is not my favorite medium, my favorite form of entertainment. Certainly game shows aren't. I don't watch reality shows at all.

  Chuck Barris

  Games, Watches, Television

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. May 28, 2003.

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• All the theories of conspiracy were always a way to escape our responsibilities. It is a very important kind of social sickness by which we avoid recognizing reality such as it is and avoid our responsibilities.

  Umberto Eco

  Responsibility, Important, Way

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

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• Symbols mean a lot in politics. They indicate a will and create new realities.

  Francois Hollande

  Mean, Symbols

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• The reality is that most gay couples don't want to adopt a child. Those who do, though, are often prepared to devote themselves entirely to their adoptive child.

  Jens Spahn

  Couple, Children, Gay

  "On Being Gay, Conservative and Catholic". SPIEGEL interview, www.transcend.org. November 23, 2012.

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