Reality Quotes - Page 36

• 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

  Space, Matter, Fields

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• Imagination consists in expelling from reality several incomplete persons, and then using the magic and subversive powers of desire to bring them back in the form of one entirely satisfying presence.

  Rene Char

  Imagination, Magic, Desire

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• Truth and fact are old-fashioned and out-of-date, my friends, fit only for the dull and vulgar to live by. Appearance, not reality, is what the clever dog grasps at in these clever days. We spurn the dull-brown solid earth; we build our lives and homes in the fair-seeming rainbow-land of shadow and chimera.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Dog, Clever, Home

  Jerome K. Jerome “Clocks”, Library of Alexandria

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• Chris Davis [of the Davisfunds] has a temple of shame. He celebrates the things they did that lost them a lot of money. What is also needed is a temple of shame squared for things you didn't do that would have made you rich. Forgetting your mistakes is a terrible error if you are trying to improve your cognition. Reality doesn't remind you. Why not celebrate stupidities in both categories?

  Charlie Munger

  Mistake, Errors, Stupidity

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• There has never been a master plan. Anyone who wanted to do it, we fired because it takes on a life of its own and doesn't cover new reality. We want people taking into account new information.

  Charlie Munger

  People, Want, Information

  Charlie Munger's opening speech at the 2004 Wesco Financial Annual Meeting, www.tilsonfunds.com. May 5, 2004.

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• We make realities out of our dreams and dreams out of our realities. We are the dreamers of the dream.

  Roald Dahl

  Dream, Dreamer, Our Dreams

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• Reality is always the foe of famous names.

  Petrarch

  Names, Foe

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• The reality you experience is a reflection of what you believe is most possible.

  Darryl Anka

  Believe, Reflection

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• I have come to the conclusion that Tony Blair has finally gone mad ... he made assertions that are so jaw-droppingly and breathtakingly at variance with reality that he surely needs professional psychiatric help.

  Boris Johnson

  Mad, Needs, Gone

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• To those of us who are not theologians, does it matter whether a thing is ordained or merely allowed? Are events that seem out of control caused by God? Or does He allow them to occur at the hands of human beings? You can spend a lot of time pondering that one and end up pretty much where you started. In either case, the purpose remains the same - our sanctification. God is in the business of making us walking, breathing examples of the invisible reality of the presence of Christ in us.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Hands, Breathing, Events

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• Teaching which ignores the realities of children will be rejected as surely as any graft which attempts to ignore the body's immune system.

  Howard Gardner

  Children, Teaching, Body

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• In this world of illusion, where at the end of the examination, we find everything to be of little importance, of little worth, if there is a sign of reality, of something one can depend upon, and in which one can recognize a sign of eternity, it is in the constancy of friendship.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  World, Examination, Littles

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• Every mind has its particular standard of good and bad, and of right and wrong. This standard is made by what one has experienced through life, by what one has seen or heard; it also depends upon one's belief in a certain religion, one's birth in a certain nation and origin in a certain race. But what can really be called good or bad, right or wrong, is what comforts the mind and what causes it discomfort. It is not true, although it appears so, that it is discomfort that causes wrongdoing. In reality, it is wrongdoing which causes discomfort, and it is right-doing which gives comfort.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Race, Giving, Mind

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• Space is still filled with the noise of destruction and annihilation, the shouts of self-assurance and arrogance, the weeping of despair and helplessness. But round about the horizon the eternal realities stand silent in their age-old longing. There shines on them already the first mild light of the radiant fulfillment to come. From afar sound the first notes as of pipes and voices, not yet discernable as a song or melody. It is all far off still, and only just announced and foretold. But it is happening, today.

  Alfred Delp

  Song, Self, Voice

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• We are now at the point in the age of global warming hysteria where the IPCC global warming theory has crashed into the hard reality of observations.

  Roy Spencer

  Hysteria, Age, Global Warming

  "What climate change? Fewer people than EVER believe the world is really warming up". www.express.co.uk. September 19, 2013.

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• Fleeing persecution is not a crime. And we do not seek to pander to a noisy, tiny minority who will never embrace modern multicultural Australia. But there are important truths we must face. There is a history and a reality that we cannot ignore. The challenge before us is real, the questions we grapple with as elemental as life and death.

  Bill Shorten

  Real, Australia, Life And Death

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• All is the Self or Brahman. The saint, the sinner, the lamb, the tiger, even the murderer, as far as they have any reality, can be nothing else, because there is nothing else.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Self, Saint, Lambs

  Swami Vivekananda (1955). “Complete Works”

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• I have been asked many times, Why do you laugh so much and make so many jokes? I become serious sometimes-when I have a stomachache! The Lord is all blissfulness. He is the reality behind all that exists. He is the goodness, the truth in everything. You are His incarnations. That is what is glorious. The nearer you are to Him, the less you will have occasions to cry or weep. The further we are from Him, the more will long faces come. The more we know of Him, the more misery vanishes.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Long, Laughing, Faces

  Swami Vivekananda (196?). “Swami Vivekananda on Himself”

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• The leading edge of reality is mind, and mind is the primary substratum of being.

  Terence McKenna

  Mind, Primaries, Edges

  Terence McKenna (1998). “True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival”, M J F Books

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• Niagaras of beauty are flowing by untapped by ordinary consciousness. . . . Would that we could send robots who could film these psychedelic realities. . . . The presence of so much beauty is an argument to me that truth cannot be far away.

  Terence McKenna

  Ordinary, Robots, Psychedelic

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• Because I believe psychedelics are a kind of higher dimensional sectioning of reality, I think they give the kind of stereoscopic vision necessary to hold the entire hologram of what's happening in your mind. The old paradigm is gone.

  Terence McKenna

  Believe, Thinking, Giving

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• Machine thinking is the opposite of mindfulness. If we're really engaged in mindfulness when walking along the path to the village, then we will consider the act of each step we take as an infinite wonder, and a joy will open our hearts like a flower, enabling us to enter the world of reality.

  Nhat Hanh

  Flower, Heart, Thinking

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• When all hope is lost, pig-headed refusal to acknowledge reality will always save the day.

  Andy Ihnatko

  Pigs, Refusal, Lost

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• Reality television, which turned its eye on people who were doing nothing but being themselves, was the perfect expression of this trend [of narcissism]. Let's look at ourselves, it said. Aren't we fascinating?

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Eye, Expression, People

  Alexander McCall Smith (2007). “Espresso Tales”, p.10, Anchor

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• The time has come to put into practice the charity taught by the masters and priests of all times. The words said between the pigeons' cooing under the sacred porticos of all the temples should now turn into concrete reality.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Practice, Charity, Sacred

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