Reality Quotes - Page 19

• When God says no, we are sometimes tempted to wonder if He loves us. In reality, it’s because He loves us, He sometimes says no.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Sometimes, Wonder, Tempted

  Twitter post from Sep 03, 2016

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• One clings to life although there is nothing to be called life; another clings to death although there is nothing to be called death. In reality, there is nothing to be born; consequently, there is nothing to perish.

  Bodhidharma

  Born

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• Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.

  Bodhidharma

  Middle

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• The ancient intuition that all matter, all "reality," is energy, that all phenomena, including time and space, are mere crystallizations of mind, is an idea with which few physicists have quarreled since the theory of relativity first called into question the separate identities of energy and matter. Today most scientists would agree with the ancient Hindus that nothing exists or is destroyed, things merely change shape or form; that matter is insubstantial in origin, a temporary aggregate of he pervasive energy that animates the electron.

  Peter Matthiessen

  Ideas, Space, Intuition

  Peter Matthiessen (1998). “Nine-Headed Dragon River: Zen Journals 1969-1982”, p.69, Shambhala Publications

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• Donald Trump isn't really running for president, come on! This is obviously a new reality show, Celebrity Presidential Apprentice. It ends with the incompetent celebrity being berated, humiliated, then unceremoniously fired.

  Michael R. Burch

  Running, Presidential, Ends

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• Donald Trump said he will not decide about a possible run for the presidency until after the current season of Celebrity Apprentice wraps up. Say what you want about Trump, at least this guy has his priorities in order. He doesn't want to let actual reality get in the way of his reality show.

  Jay Leno

  Running, Order, Priorities

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• People want reality that tells them how right they are all the time.

  David Brooks

  People, Want

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• Remembrances last longer than present realities.

  Jean Paul

  Remembrance, Lasts

  Jean Paul (1862). “Titan: A Romance”, p.36

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• There is a certain point of unity within the self, and between the self and its world, certain complicity and magnetic mating, a certain harmony, that conscious mind and will cannot direct. Perhaps analysis and the separate mastery of each element are required before the instincts are ready to assume command, but only at first. Command by instinct is swifter, subtler, deeper, more accurate, more in touch with reality than command by conscious mind. The discovery takes one's breath away.

  Michael Novak

  Discovery, Self, Unity

  Michael Novak (1993). “The Joy of Sports: End Zones, Bases, Baskets, Balls, and the Consecration of the American Spirit”, p.172, Rowman & Littlefield

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• If you are a very intelligent person, you will see this: All the realities in the universe can be changed!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Intelligent, Changed, Persons

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• Mystery is the wine of this universe. It makes us dizzy and makes us feel happy! Man needs enigma so that he can get rid of the dullness of the reality!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Wine, Men, Needs

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• Our external physical reality is a mathematical structure.

  Max Tegmark

  Structure, Mathematical

  "Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality". Book by Max Tegmark, January 7, 2014.

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• Give weather reports. It helps the reality of a scene if foghorns are blowing or kites are in the sky on a windy afternoon or the day's so hot wallpaper is peeling off the walls.

  Sid Fleischman

  Wall, Sky, Weather

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• Reality and Fiction are different in that fiction has to make sense.

  Ray Bradbury

  Different, Fiction, Make Sense

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• Conservatism is the politics of reality

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Conservatism

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• The reality of art is disclosed only in experience, not in reflection upon experience.

  Clement Greenberg

  Art, Reflection, Art Is

  Clement Greenberg (1971). “Art and Culture: Critical Essays”, p.243, Beacon Press

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• Artist should look at the reality and brutality of modern life in all its color, nature with all its imperfections - that should be the challenge to the modern painter not the didactic idealization of the past. The new generation should forge a new path.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Artist, Past, Color

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• Surrealism is based on the belief in the superior reality of certain forms of previously neglected associations, in the omnipotence of dreams, in the disinterested play of thought. It tends to ruin once and for all other psychic mechanisms and to substitute itself for them in solving all the principle problems of life.

  Andre Breton

  Dream, Psychics, Omnipotence

  "Manifestoes of Surrealism". Book by André Breton, 1969.

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• Therefore, the two processes, that of science and that of art, are not very different. Both science and art form in the course of the centuries a human language by which we can speak about the more remote parts of reality, and the coherent sets of concepts as well as the different styles of art are different words or groups of words in this language.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Art, Two, Style

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• In Shakespeare the birds sing, the bushes are clothed with green, hearts love, souls suffer, the cloud wanders, it is hot, it is cold, night falls, time passes, forests and multitudes speak, the vast eternal dream hovers over all. Sap and blood, all forms of the multiple reality, actions and ideas, man and humanity, the living and the life, solitudes, cities, religions, diamonds and pearls, dung-hills and charnelhouses, the ebb and flow of beings, the steps of comers and goers, all, all are on Shakespeare and in Shakespeare.

  Victor Hugo

  Dream, Fall, Heart

  Victor Hugo (2001). “William Shakespeare”, p.80, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• You visualize yourself as the person you want to be. You strive to make the ideal in your mind become a reality on the canvas of Time.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Mind, Want, Canvas

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• Everyone should be sacked at least once in their career because perfection doesn't exist. It's important to have setbacks, because that is the reality of life.

  Anna Wintour

  Careers, Perfection, Important

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• Theology differs from science in many respects, because of its different subject matter, a personal God who cannot be put to the test in the way that the impersonal physical world can be subjected to experimental enquiry. Yet science and theology have this in common, that each can be, and should be defended as being investigations of what is, the search for increasing verisimilitude in our understanding of reality.

  John Polkinghorne

  Understanding, Tests, Matter

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• A political philosophy (often called "political science" by practitioners who are not averse from verbal trickery) must deal with contemporary realities. If it does not, if it is charged with "ideals," it is merely a variety of romantic fiction, although it may not be recognized as such.

  Revilo P. Oliver

  Philosophy, Political, Doe

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• If you want to get people off drugs, improve reality.

  David R. Brower

  People, Drug, Want

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