Reality Quotes - Page 27

• ... I still wish to contend that some metaphors enable us to see aspects of reality that the metaphor's production helps to constitute. But that is no longer surprising if one believes that the world is necessarily a world under a certain description - or a world seen from a certain perspective.

  Max Black

  Believe, Perspective, Wish

  Max Black (1990). “Perplexities: Rational Choice, the Prisoner's Dilemma, Metaphor, Poetic Ambiguity, and Other Puzzles”

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• Consciousness creates reality.

  Bernard Haisch

  Consciousness

  Bernard Haisch (2010). “The Purpose-guided Universe: Believing in Einstein, Darwin, and God”, p.168, Red Wheel/Weiser

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• Honorable beginnings should serve to awaken curiosity, not to heighten people's expectations. We are much better off when reality surpasses our expectations, and something turns out better than we thought it would.

  Baltasar Gracian

  People, Expectations, Curiosity

  "The Art of Worldly Wisdom". Book by Baltasar Gracián. Maxim 19, 1647.

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• If you want to know the reality of life, then you should travel. At first travel your country, after that start travelling the world. Travel to know your surroundings so that we can say that you are an aware person. Nature, people and culture are calling you, so travel.

  Imran Khan

  Country, People, Culture

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• There's a snobbery at work in architecture. The subject is too often treated as a fine art, delicately wrapped in mumbo-jumbo. In reality, it's an all-embracing discipline taking in science, art, maths, engineering, climate, nature, politics, economics.

  Norman Foster

  Art, Math, Engineering

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• Moving swiftly between different arenas like politics, architecture or commercial design is what I would consider defintive of my generation. I am looking at reality and playing fast and loose with it.

  Sarah Morris

  Moving, Design, Different

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• All creative work has its greatest reality while it is still in a man's mind, before he begins to execute it.

  John Prebble

  Men, Creative, Mind

  John Prebble (1956). “Disaster at Dundee”

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• The reality is that our independent judiciary is the most respected branch of our government and the envy of the world.

  Ted Olson

  Independent, Government, Envy

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• Things aren't getting better; they're getting worse. The White House is completely disconnected from reality. It's like they're just making it up as they go along. The reality is that we're losing in Iraq.

  Chuck Hagel

  Iraq, White, House

  "Republican senators challenge Bush on Iraq". www.irishtimes.com. June 20, 2005.

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• The Republican base is now made up of religious and neoconservative ideologues, and the uneducated white underclass with a token person of color or two up front on TV to obscure the all-white, all reactionary all backward — there-is-no-global-warming — rube reality. Actual conservatives, let alone the educated classes, have long since fled.

  Frank Schaeffer

  Religious, Redneck, Color

  "Why Are the Republicans Such Anti-Obama Liars?". www.huffingtonpost.com. April 01, 2009.

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• The Self is the one Reality that always exists, and it is by the light of the Self that all other things are seen.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Light, Self

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• Expose yourself to aloneness. When a person is left alone, he starts thinking of higher reality - about death, life, soul, God and the mystery of all.

  Chinmayananda Saraswati

  Thinking, Soul, Mystery

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• One advantage of the discovery of the Photographic Art will be, that it will enable us to introduce into our pictures a multitude of minute details which add to the truth and reality of the representation, but which no artist would take the trouble to faithfully copy from nature.

  Henry Fox Talbot

  Art, Discovery, Details

  William Henry Fox Talbot (1992). “Henry Fox Talbot: Selected Texts and Bibliography”

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• Dali likes me taking his picture because he is interested in pictures that do not simply reproduce reality. Even in photos he prefers to appear outside reality .That is surrealistic!

  Philippe Halsman

  Likes

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• You do not have to imagine things; reality gives you all you need.

  Andre Kertesz

  Giving, Needs, Imagine

  André Kertész, British Broadcasting Corporation (1985). “Kertész on Kertész: a self-portrait”

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• The more tightly you cling to your faith, the looser your grip is on reality.

  David Alan Harvey

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• Science teaches you to open your eyes and appreciate the reality around you. Religion teaches you to close your eyes and cling to the fantasy within you.

  David Alan Harvey

  Eye, Appreciate, Fantasy

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• In media terms, the camera always lies, providing an edited version of reality.

  Mal Fletcher

  Lying, Media, Cameras

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• ... the stranger is not a threat but an opportunity to grow in my view of reality, to grow in my own sense of possibility

  Parker J. Palmer

  Opportunity, Views, Stranger

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• Speculators are obsessed with predicting: guessing the direction of stock prices. Every morning on cable television, every afternoon on the stock market report, every weekend in Barron's, every week in dozens of market newsletters, and whenever business people get together. In reality, no one knows what the market will do; trying to predict it is a waste of time, and investing based upon that prediction is a purely speculative undertaking.

  Seth Klarman

  Morning, Weekend, People

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• It is only by remembering that 'Another lives in me' that we can die daily to that old, false, usurping self, and that we can continue to be drawn further in and higher up into the life of God. To 'practice the presence' is to continually call to mind this great reality.

  Leanne Payne

  Self, Practice, Mind

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• From an endless beach of reality, we take a grain of sand and call it the world.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Beach, World, Sand

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• At any moment in time, our reality is based on whatever we focus on.

  Tony Robbins

  Focus, Moments, Moments In Time

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• It would be impossible to accept naturalism itself if we really and consistently believed naturalism. For naturalism is a system of thought. But for naturalism all thoughts are mere events with irrational causes. It is, to me at any rate, impossible to regard the thoughts which make up naturalism in that way and, at the same time, regard them as a real insight into external reality...If it is true, then we can know no truths. It cuts its own throat.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, Cutting, Events

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.144, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• This is an important distinction, because most of the modern philosophies that deny that we can know reality, and ultimately truth, make the mistake of constructing epistemological systems to explain how we know reality without first acknowledging the fact that we do know reality. After they begin within the mind and find they can't construct a bridge to reality, they then declare that we can't know reality. It is like drawing a faulty road map before looking at the roads, then declaring that we can't know how to get from Chicago to New York!

  Josh McDowell

  New York, Mistake, Philosophy

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