Reality Quotes - Page 25

• The work of an artist who attempts lovingly to embrace reality, will ring false, will degenerate into kitsch.

  Karsten Harries

  Artist, Kitsch, Degenerates

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• Kitsch lends itself to a definition in terms of a systematic attempt to fly from daily reality: in time and in space.

  Matei Calinescu

  Space, Definitions, Systematic

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• Within a Metaphysics of Quality, science is a set of static intellectual patterns describing this reality, but the patterns are not the reality they describe.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Intellectual, Quality, Patterns

  Robert M. Pirsig (1991). “LILA An Inquriry into Morals”

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• A true artist is someone who gives birth to a new reality.

  Plato

  Artist, Giving, Birth

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• Dismantling the ego, quieting the mind, isn't something you can actively undertake to do. It just happens on its own, when you consciously accept the moment you are in, when you don't fight the present reality with thoughts of how you'd like it to be otherwise, or what you're afraid the next moment might bring, when you don't resist with justification or regret or blame of self or other.

  Jan Frazier

  Regret, Fighting, Self

  Jan Frazier (2007). “When Fear Falls Away: The Story of a Sudden Awakening”, p.192, Weiser Books

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• The universe cannot show you anything which you've intentionally chosen to block from your reality.

  Steve Pavlina

  Block, Shows, Chosen

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• All human unhappiness comes from not facing reality squarely, exactly as it is.

  Gautama Buddha

  Facing Reality, Unhappiness, Humans

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• Many Sages have said, "Your world is a dream. You're living in an illusion." They're referring to this world of the mind and the way we believe our thoughts about reality. When we see the world through our thoughts, we stop experiencing life as it really is and others as they really are.

  Adyashanti

  Dream, Believe, Mind

  Adyashanti (2011). “Falling into Grace: Insights on the End of Suffering”, p.8, Sounds True

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• For a sorcerer, reality, or the world as we all know it, is only a description.

  Carlos Castaneda

  World, Description, Knows

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• To the critical intelligence, nothing is left of absolute reality.

  Carl Jung

  Critical, Left, Absolutes

  Carl Gustav Jung, Richard Francis Carrington Hull (1992). “Two Essays on Analytical Psychology”, p.218, Psychology Press

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• Ignoring platforms that have gained critical mass is a great way to look slow and out-of-touch. Do not cling to nostalgia. Do not put your principles above the reality of the market. Do not be a snob.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Principles, Looks, Way

  Gary Vaynerchuk (2013). “Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World”, p.20, Harper Collins

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• For me, photography is not a means by which to create beautiful art, but a unique way of encountering genuine reality

  Daido Moriyama

  Beautiful, Photography, Art

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• Reality makes no sense at all, except possibly from God's point of view

  Lori Singer

  Views, Point Of View

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• Do not close your eyes before suffering. Find ways to be with those who are suffering by all means, Including personal contact and visits, images, sound. By such means, awaken yourself and others to the reality of suffering in the world.

  Gautama Buddha

  Mean, Eye, Suffering

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• An accurate, insightful view of current reality is as important as a clear vision.

  Peter Senge

  Views, Vision, Insightful

  Peter M Senge (2010). “The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization: First edition”, p.115, Random House

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• Success is an intoxicant, and intoxicated people seldom have a firm grasp on reality.

  Andy Stanley

  People, Firm, Intoxicated

  Andy Stanley (2011). “Next Generation Leader”, p.22, Multnomah

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• We have this misconception about women in the military, that they don't wear make-up, but in reality, they're very feminine women. You can be a tough woman, and still be a very nurturing and emotional parent. It's just not always black and white like that.

  Michelle Monaghan

  Military, Black And White, Emotional

  Source: collider.com

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• The strength of the script, for me, was that you're really left, right till the end, to know what's happening. This seemingly perfect, happy, kooky real relationship slowly turns into something horrifying, but you get there through a filter of reality with all of it.

  Harry Treadaway

  Real, Perfect, Filters

  Source: collider.com

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• Personally, I just want to work on stuff that challenges me, that excites me, and that I think is original. You want to do something that does to other people what films do to you. It's the most wonderful thing in the world when you can lose yourself from reality and go into a story, and believe it and go on that journey with people, and you have to work that will somehow do that. It won't always, but hopefully sometimes.

  Harry Treadaway

  Believe, Journey, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• In real science a hypothesis can never be proved true...A science which confines itself to correlating phenomena can never learn anything about the reality underlying the phenomena, while a science which goes further than this and introduces hypotheses about reality, can never acquire certain knowledge of a positive kind about reality; in whatever way we proceed, this is forever denied us.

  James Jeans

  Real, Forever, Way

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• Some who call themselves realists question whether the spread of democracy in the Middle East should be any concern of ours. But the realists in this case have lost contact with a fundamental reality: America has always been less secure when freedom is in retreat; America is always more secure when freedom is on the march.

  George W. Bush

  America, Democracy, Middle East

  Remarks by the President at the United States Air Force Academy Graduation Ceremony, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. June 2, 2004.

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• The fool says, "These are my sons, this is my land, this is my money." In reality, the fool does not own himself, much less sons, land, or money.

  Gautama Buddha

  Son, Land, Doe

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• Virtually all bad ideas come from universities, bad ideas that only survive when insulated from reality.

  Dick Armey

  Ideas, University, Bad Ideas

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• We Americans think we enjoy self-government. We have all the trappings of self-government, like elections. But in reality, we have gradually lost many of our rights to govern ourselves. We have the form of self-government, but only some of the substance. We are, in a sense, a nation run by a handful of judges who often enforce, not the law, but their personal opinions.

  Charles Colson

  Running, Thinking, Rights

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• Like medieval theologians we had a philosophy that explained everything to us in advance, and everything that did not fit could be readily identified as a fraud or a lie or an illusion... The perniciousness of the anti-Communist ideology of the Truman Doctrine arises not from any patent falsehood but from its distortion and simplification of reality, from its universalization and its elevation to the status of a revealed truth.

  J. William Fulbright

  Lying, Philosophy, Patents

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