Reality Quotes - Page 11

• May the dreams of your past be the reality of your future.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Wise, Dream, Past

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• The supreme reality of our time is the vulnerability of our planet.

  John F. Kennedy

  Time, Environmental, Wilderness

  Speech to a joint session of the Dail and the Seanad, Dublin, Ireland, June 28, 1963.

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• Reality is for people who can't face drugs.

  Laurence J. Peter

  People, Drug, Luck

  Laurence J. Peter (1979). “Peter's people”, W. Morrow

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• The stupendous fact that we stand in the midst of Reality will always be something far more wonderful than anything we do.

  Eric Gutkind

  Facts, Wonderful, Midst

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• In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be.

  Huston Smith

  Emphasis, Ought

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• The paradox of Reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye.

  Shana Alexander

  Eye, Mind, Paradox

  Shana Alexander (1976). “Talking woman”

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• The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Real, Light, Mold

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• There's something beautifully soothing about a fact — even (or perhaps especially) if we're not sure what it means.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Mean, Facts, Soothing

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• It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.

  Margaret Fuller

  Determination, Honesty, Purity

  Margaret Fuller (1852). “Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli”, p.64

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• It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.

  Robert H. Goddard

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• These patients have turned away from outer reality; it is for this reason that they are more aware than we of inner reality and can reveal to us things which without them would remain impenetrable.

  Sigmund Freud

  Patient, Reason

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• Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Facts, Spirit, Realism

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

  David Myers

  Attitude, Views, Objectivity

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

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• When the mind's eye rests on objects illuminated by truth and reality, it understands and comprehends them, and functions intelligently; but when it turns to the twilight world of change and decay, it can only form opinions, its vision is confused and its beliefs shifting, and it seems to lack intelligence.

  Plato

  Confused, Twilight, Eye

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• What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable.

  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

  Agreement, People

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• Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

  Thomas Sowell

  Liberty, Littles, Too Much

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• Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

  Tupac Shakur

  Tattoo, Dream, Real

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Nothing is wholly obvious without becoming enigmatic. Reality itself is too obvious to be true .

  Jean Baudrillard

  Truth, Becoming, Obvious

  Jean Baudrillard (2001). “Selected Writings”, p.270, Stanford University Press

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• Artists erase reality to a greater or lesser extent, and substitute their own reality - created by their brains, instead.

  Semir Zeki

  Artist, Brain, Substitutes

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• Think about this: terrorism, epidemics, poverty, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction-all challenges that know no borders-the reality is that climate change ranks right up there with every single one of them.

  John F. Kerry

  Thinking, Epidemics, Mass Destruction

  "President Obama's strategy against ISIS remains unclear". "The Five", www.foxnews.com. September 5, 2014.

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• But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

  Alan Watts

  Men, Ink, Rorschach

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• Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

  T. S. Eliot

  Kindness, Atheism, Politics

  Four Quartets "Burnt Norton" pt. 1 (1936)

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• Tantric Zen, at first, does not appear to have a method. In Tantric Zen, you could meditate on a Brillo box or you could meditate on the clear light of reality.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Doe

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• Reality is just a point of view.

  Philip K. Dick

  Views, Point Of View

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• The idea of a hell that involves some kind of eternal punishment at the hands of a just and holy God is so profoundly difficult for us to handle emotionally, that the only person who would have enough authority to convince us of the reality of such a place would be Jesus Himself.

  John Gerstner

  Jesus, Punishment, Ideas

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