Reality Quotes - Page 28

• Satre found atheism 'cruel', Camus 'dreadful', and Nietzsche 'maddening'. Atheists who consistently try to live without God tend to commit suicide or go insane. Those who are inconsistent live on the ethical or aesthetic shadow of Christian truth while they deny the reality that made the shadow.

  Norman Geisler

  Christian, Suicide, Atheist

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• Reality, unlike perception, cannot be changed by propaganda.

  Charles Hugh Smith

  Perception, Propaganda, Changed

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• The problems of the global economy are not based in perception, but in the reality of prices, balance sheets and income statements, vast concentrations of wealth and power, precarious systemic imbalances, ruthless exploitation, and command economies mismanaged by Central State/Bank policy and manipulation.

  Charles Hugh Smith

  Concentration Of Wealth, Perception, Balance

  "The 'Uncredible' Dog And Pony Show: Merkel And Sarkozy" by Charles Hugh Smith, www.businessinsider.com. October 10, 201.

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• My imagination creates my reality.

  Walt Disney

  Imagination, My Imagination

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• The marketplace is a wondrous institution. It harnesses the self-interest of each of us and puts it to work for the benefit of all. And it does so without intruding upon our desires, our privacy, or our freedom. It is regulation by reality, not by coercion.

  Harry Browne

  Self, Desire, Doe

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• Not only does the liberal paradigm not even come close to agreeing with the social and economic reality on the ground today, worse, it has largely congealed into a political religion. . .

  John Steele Gordon

  Political, Doe, Today

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• Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.

  William James

  Theatre, Heroism, World

  William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature”, p.123, Xist Publishing

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• When I look at the 'Rocky Balboa' film when I played the undisputed heavyweight champion, I feel like art is going to imitate life. I played the champ in a movie and I'm going to become the champ in reality.

  Antonio Tarver

  Art, Champion, Heavyweights

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• The nations, and the sects, of the Roman world, admitted with equal credulity, and similar abhorrence, the reality of that infernal art [witchcraft], which was able to control the eternal order of the planets, and the voluntary operations of the human mind. . . . They believed, with the wildest inconsistency, that this preternatural dominion of the air, of earth, and of hell, was exercised, from the vilest motives of malice or gain, by some wrinkled hags and itinerant sorcerers, who passed their obscure lives in penury and contempt.

  Edward Gibbon

  Art, Air, Order

  Edward Gibbon (1821). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.253

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• The theoretical fruits of deliberate oversimplification through idealization are not to be denied... Reality in all its messy particularity is too complicated to theorize about, taken straight. The issue is, rather (since every idealization is a strategic choice), which idealizations might really shed some light... which will just land us... diverting fairy tales.

  Daniel Dennett

  Taken, Land, Issues

  Daniel C. Dennett (2014). “Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Life”, p.497, Simon and Schuster

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• Most of us avoid telling the truth because it's uncomfortable. We're afraid of the consequences-making others feel uncomfortable, hurting their feelings or risking their anger. And yet, when we don't tell the truth, and others don't tell us the truth, we can't deal with matters from a basis in reality.

  Jack Canfield

  Hurt, Feelings, Matter

  FaceBook post by Jack Canfield from Dec 02, 2013

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• Yes, for all of us in the Shakespeare Squadron, writing is just that: not an escape from reality, but an attempt to change reality.

  William S. Burroughs

  Writing

  William S. Burroughs, James Grauerholz (2001). “Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs”, p.16, Grove Press

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• Most Americans living below the official poverty line own a car or truck - and government entitlement programs seldom provide cars and trucks. Most people living below the official poverty line also have air conditioning, color television, and a microwave oven - and these too are not usually handed out by government entitlement programs.
  
  Cell phones and other electronic devices are by no means unheard of in low-income neighborhoods, where children would supposedly go hungry if there were no school-lunch programs. In reality, low-income people are overweight more often than other Americans.

  Thomas Sowell

  Children, School, Mean

  "Dependency and Votes" by Thomas Sowell, www.nationalreview.com. May 24, 2011.

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• Markets are nimble and efficient, gathering the collective but disbursed intelligence of the economy's players and communicating up-to-the-minute realities of prices, product availability, etc. Government is typically cumbersome, plodding, and slow.

  Joel Miller

  Player, Government, Availability

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• It may be a good thing to copy reality; but to invent reality is much, much better.

  Giuseppe Verdi

  May, Good Things, Copies

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• The hardest thing over the years has been having the courage to go against the dominant wisdom of the time to have a view that is at variance with the present consensus and bet that view. The hard part is that the investor must measure himself not by his own perceptions of his performance, but by the objective measure of the market. The market has its own reality. In an immediate emotional sense the market is always right so if you take a variant point of view you will always be bombarded for some time by conventional wisdom as expressed by the market.

  Michael Steinhardt

  Emotional, Views, Years

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• There's really educated women out there who are feminists and they have read up on their stuff. They can talk to me right now, and school me on some things I've never known, and that's amazing, you are a scholar, you are wise, you are educated. But the unfortunate thing is also the reality, and the fact is, millions of people might not even know who these educated feminists are - hundreds will, thousands maybe.

  Lizzo

  Wise, School, Unfortunate Things

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You spend so much of your life crafting this stuff that you want to laugh in the room. I don't want to sit there and slit my wrists. And I think it reflects reality. People use humor to survive, even in the most horrific situations.

  Jenji Kohan

  Thinking, People, Laughing

  Source: collider.com

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• I never thought I would have an opportunity to act in the United States, and continue to expand my career outside of Europe. To be honest, my reality is bigger than I would have ever dared to dream.

  Diane Kruger

  Dream, Opportunity, Europe

  Source: collider.com

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• Reality also is that there are a lot of gaps, there are a lot of business in between the iconic things.

  Adam Shankman

  Gaps, Iconic

  Source: collider.com

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• The reason I got into this business was for the privilege to exist in different genres and different worlds and play out different realities.

  Lake Bell

  Play, Privilege, Different

  "Actress Lake Bell, first female voice of Apple ads, is taking over Hollywood one project at a time". Interview with Jason Guerrasio, www.businessinsider.com. November 30, 2015.

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• I'm used to something where you have to create an entire world, and I do like that process. I like getting the audience to believe that outside of the frame of your television set, there's a whole real world that exists, that is different from your day-to-day reality.

  Ronald D. Moore

  Real, Believe, Different

  Source: collider.com

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• Sometimes it seems like if you open up the door to reality and invite it in, it will just come flowing.

  Tobias Lindholm

  Doors, Sometimes, Invites

  Source: collider.com

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• The physicality was important to me. Because the film has Shane Black's dialogue, and [Robert] Downey's delivery, and you look at [Jon] Favreau, Don Cheadle and Gwyneth [Paltrow], it is this heightened level with a comedic aspect to it. Everything is grounded in reality, but it plays a little heightened.

  James Badge Dale

  Play, Black, Important

  Source: collider.com

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• One of the things that I discovered in my research is that some serial killers build an ultimate reality around themselves that they believe in, 100%.

  James Purefoy

  Believe, Serial Killer, Research

  Source: collider.com

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