Reality Quotes - Page 14

• Understanding arises from reducing one type of reality into another.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Understanding, Reducing, Arise

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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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• Osama Bin Laden was responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocent people. Terror was brought to many countries on his direct orders and in his name, against men, women and children, Christians and Muslims. Osama Bin Laden claimed to be acting in the name of Islam, but in reality he made a mockery of the basic values of his and all other religions.

  Angela Merkel

  Christian, Country, Children

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• I know, of course, that by using film we can bring in other previously unknown worlds, realities beyond reality.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Unknown Worlds, Film, Courses

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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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• [Freud's] sense of reality is less clouded by wishful thinking than is the case with other people and [he combines] the qualities of critical judgment, earnestness and responsibility.

  Albert Einstein

  Responsibility, Thinking, People

  Albert Einstein (2017). “Einstein on Peace”, p.274, Pickle Partners Publishing

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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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• We've got to have a legacy of leadership. We've got to bring along with us a generation of black women who are going to confront twenty-first-century realities.

  Jewell Jackson McCabe

  Black, Twenties, Legacy

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• Any honest inquiry into the reality of nature also yields insights about ourselves.

  Carl Safina

  Yield, Inquiry, Honest

  Carl Safina (2010). “Song for the Blue Ocean: Encounters Along the World's Coasts and Beneath the Seas”, p.440, Macmillan

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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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• To be religious is to be sensitive to reality.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Religious, Sensitive

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “This Matter of Culture”

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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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• A lot of times you talk about what you know, but since our reality is so difficult, its hard to think about travelling beyond the stars to another dimension - fantasy worlds - when, in reality, you can't get a job on Earth.

  Kevin Grevioux

  Jobs, Stars, Thinking

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• You need a visualization of the outside obstacle and what can be better than a wall. For the Palestinians it means a division from each other, because the wall didn't separate Palestinians from Israelis, it separated them from themselves. This is the reality, and the wall is a kind of jail to the Palestinians.

  Hany Abu-Assad

  Wall, Mean, Jail

  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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• The issue of animal use and abuse can seem insurmountable, it is tragic and it is complex. We love our companion animals and we value wildlife but we are generally blind to the realities of what goes into the food we eat.

  Liz Marshall

  Animal, Issues, Abuse

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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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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• I never believe I'm presenting objective reality; I also don't want to delude people into thinking that my subject is talking directly to them.

  Joe Berlinger

  Believe, Thinking, Talking

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Mother Earth is in pain and ailing - bglobal warming. The world is dealing with issues of immigration, deindustrialization, and poverty. When I was born, there were 2.5 billion people living on the whole planet. Now there are 2.5 billion people living on less than $2 a day. That's the kind of reality we have to deal with.

  Danny Glover

  Mother, Pain, Issues

  "Black power mixtpe co-producer Danny Glover opens up". Interview with Ed Rampell, www.pbs.org. February 7, 2012.

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• The responsibility of the scientist or journalist is to convey the context. If you're talking about the Arctic Sea ice, you have to embrace the reality that there's a huge number of other things that influence that on a year-to-year basis.

  Andrew Revkin

  Responsibility, Talking, Years

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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