Reality Quotes - Page 32

• I have used the word "attention," which I borrow from Simone Weil, to express the idea of a just and loving gaze directed upon individual reality.  I believe this to be the characteristic and proper mark of the active moral agent.

  Iris Murdoch

  Believe, Ideas, Attention

  Iris Murdoch (1967). “The Sovereignty of Good Over Other Concepts”, p.33, Psychology Press

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• The best proof of the specificity of the book is that it is at once a reality of the virtual and a virtuality of the real.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Real, Book, Proof

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• By realizing the reality of our Prince within us, we are never bothered again by the fact that we do not understand ourselves, or that other people do not understand us.  The only One who truly understands me is the One who made me and who redeems me... It is a tremendous freedom to get rid of every kind of self-consideration and learn to care about only one thing - the relationship between our Prince and ourselves.

  Oswald Chambers

  Self, People, Care

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• Everyone everywhere live[s] a confused, bitter search.  Reality never matched their dreams; happiness was just around the corner - a corner they never turned.  And the source of it all [is] the human mind.

  Dan Millman

  Dream, Confused, Mind

  Dan Millman (2009). “Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives”, p.20, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Whatever comes and goes, is not reality. See the event as event only. Then you are vulnerable to reality, no longer armoured against it, as you were when you gave reality to events and experiences.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Events, Vulnerable, Comes And Goes

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• Only that, nothing more - a tiny beam of light to show some hidden aspect of reality, to help decipher and understand it and thus to initiate, if possible, a change in the conscience of some readers.

  Isabel Allende

  Light, Tiny, Helping

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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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• Science teaches you to open your eyes and appreciate the reality around you. Religion teaches you to close your eyes and cling to the fantasy within you.

  David Alan Harvey

  Eye, Appreciate, Fantasy

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• The further we analyse the manner in which such an engine performs its processes and attains its results, the more we perceive how distinctly it places in a true and just light the mutual relations and connexion of the various steps of mathematical analysis; how clearly it separates those things which are in reality distinct and independent, and unites those which are mutually dependent.

  Ada Lovelace

  Independent, Light, Analysis

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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 self identity of Man is transcultural, and thus cannot have any single point of reference. Pluralism is not synonymous with tolerance of a variety of opinions. Pluralism amounts to the recognition of the unthinkable, the absurd, and up to a limit, intolerable. Reality in itself does not need to be transparent intelligible.

  Raimon Panikkar

  Men, Self, Pluralism Is

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• The key to turning dreams into reality is action.

  Jim Rohn

  Dream, Keys, Action

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• There must always be a discrepncy between concepts and reality, because the former are static and discontinuous while the latter is dynamic and flowing

  William James

  Static, Latter, Former

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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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• When a person has access to both the intuitive, creative and visual right brain, and the analytical, logical, verbal left brain, then the whole brain is working...And this tool is best suited to the reality of what life is, because life is not just logical-it is also emotional.

  Stephen Covey

  Emotional, Creative, Brain

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• Happiness arises when you relax into the reality of your natural condition. The secrets of the universe are already in you as you. Seeking anything implies that you don't have it; every search for the idea of enlightenment leads you further away from it. The magnificance of life does not await you - it actually is you.

  Mark Whitwell

  Ideas, Secret, Enlightenment

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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 point of life is to find the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality.

  Lillian Smith

  Dream, Life Is, Equilibrium

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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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• The culture of irony is the culture of postmodernism, which I would furiously want to denounce. We have to act ethically and politically. Irony is a defensive position, against reality. It always knows what to think about reality. The idea of commitment and engagement is central to me, which is not ironic.

  Simon Critchley

  Commitment, Thinking, Ideas

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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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• Repentance is a realization that what God wants from you and what you want from God are not going to be achieved by doing the same old things, thinking the same old thoughts. Repentance is a decision to follow Jesus Christ and become his pilgrim in the path of peace. Repentance is the most practical of all words and the most practical of all acts. It is a feet-on-the-ground-kind-of-word. It puts a person in touch with the reality that God creates.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Jesus, Thinking, Old Things

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• You've got to be hungry - for ideas, to make things happen and to see your vision made into reality

  Anita Roddick

  Ideas, Vision, Hungry

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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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