Reality Quotes - Page 36

• Reality is the original Rorschach.

  Malaclypse the Younger

  Rorschach, Originals

  Malaclypse The Younger (2013). “Principia Discordia: The Magnum Opiate of, Malaclypse the Younger”, p.85, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The world of demons, fallen Angels, is very real - a fact we need to know. We have to face up to this terrible reality, so that we do not fall unsuspectingly into their hands and come under their tyranny.

  Basilea Schlink

  Real, Fall, Angel

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• The sense of space within the reality of any building is a new concept wherever architecture is concerned. But it is essential ancient principle just the same and is not only necessary now but implied by the ideal of democracy itself.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Space, Democracy, Principles

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• A religious belief is not a statement about Reality, but a hint, a clue about something that is a mystery, beyond the grasp of human thought. In short, a religious belief is only a finger pointing to the moon. Some religious people never get beyond the study of the finger. Others are engaged in sucking it. Others yet use the finger to gouge their eyes out. These are the bigots whom religion has made blind. Rare indeed is the religionist who is sufficiently detached from the finger to see what it is indicating - these are those who, having gone beyond belief, are taken for blasphemers.

  Anthony de Mello

  Religious, Taken, Eye

  "One Minute Nonsense". Book by Anthony de Mello (p. 134), 1992.

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• Concepts are always frozen. Reality flows.

  Anthony de Mello

  Frozen, Flow, Concepts

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• The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist (our friends being friends only in the light of an agreeable folly which travels with us through life and to which we readily accommodate ourselves, but which at the bottom of our hearts we know to be no more reasonable than the delusion of the man who talks to the furniture because he believes that it is alive.).

  Marcel Proust

  Giving Up, Believe, Heart

  Marcel Proust (1970). “The past recaptured”, Random House (NY)

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• Please don't think that I am one of those squishy types who can't handle reality. I have plenty of real-world things to deal with all the time. I have deadlines, meetings, I answer the phone, I get turned down, I wait in lines and am forced to pass for normal all the time.

  Henry Rollins

  Real, Thinking, Phones

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• I've grown up with girls that are like Precious. I've grown up with people that are like everyone that I read about in that book. And so years later, when I was given the role, I just felt a huge responsibility to show the reality of that situation and to show that we're not making it up.

  Gabourey Sidibe

  Girl, Book, Responsibility

  "Gabourey Sidibe, From 'Precious' To 'AfroPop'". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. January 31, 2013.

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• We create our own reality because of our inner emotional - our subconscious - reality draws us into those situations from which we learn. We experience it as strange things happening to us (and) we meet the people in our lives that we need to learn from. And so we create these circumstances at a very deep metaphysical and subconscious level.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Emotional, People, Needs

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• Women remain children all their lives, for they always see only what is near at hand, cling to the present, take the appearance of a thing for reality, and prefer trifling matters to the most important.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Children, Hands, Important

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer (illustrated)”, p.63, Full Moon Publications

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• The frontiers are not east or west, north or south; but wherever a man fronts a fact, though that fact be a neighbor, there is anunsettled wilderness between him and Canada, between him and the setting sun, or, farther still, between him and it. Let him build himself a log house with the bark on where he is, fronting IT, and wage there an Old French war for seven or seventy years, with Indians and Rangers, or whatever else may come between him and the reality, and save his scalp if he can.

  Henry David Thoreau

  War, Men, Years

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers (Annotated Edition)”, p.257, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Since once again, O Lord, in the steppes of Asia, I have no bread, no wine, no altar, I will raise myself above those symbols to the pure majesty of reality, and I will offer to you, I, your priest, upon the altar of the entire earth, the labor and the suffering of the world.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Wine, Suffering, World

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1969). “Building the Earth: And The Psychological Conditions of Human Unification”

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• Talk of revolution is one of avoiding reality.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Revolution, Avoiding

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• The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.

  William Butler Yeats

  Dream, Unseen, World

  Rebecca Pauline Christine Brugsma, William Butler Yeats (1933). “The Beginnings of the Irish Revival ...”

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• How paradoxical it is to search reality for the pictures that are stored in one's memory.

  Marcel Proust

  Memories, Paradoxical

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• We shall take whatever action is necessary to contain the growth of the money supply. The government, unlike so many of its predecessors, will face up to economic realities.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Money, Government, Growth

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• The sophisticated concern about art sinks before a spontaneous love of reality, and I thank the photograph for being so transparent a vehicle for things.

  George Santayana

  Art, Spontaneous, Sophisticated

  George Santayana (1967). “Animal Faith and Spiritual Life”, Irvington Pub

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• Without arts programmes there's only reality TV, and reality TV needs the arts to show it what reality is.

  Billy Connolly

  Art, Needs, Tvs

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For the heavenly fire no longer strikes depraved cities, it is rather the lens which cuts through ordinary reality like a laser, putting it to death.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Cutting, Fire, Cities

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• For me, the photography, in its purest form, is a variant of the fable. Another way of saving the appearances - a way of signifying, through this fabulous capture, that this supposed real world is always about to lose its meaning and its reality.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Photography, Real, Fables

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• An electric chain seems to vibrate, as it were, between our brain and him or her preserved there [in a Daguerreotype] so well by the limner's cunning. Time, space, both are annihilated, and we identify the semblance with the reality.

  Walt Whitman

  Space, Brain, Daguerreotypes

  Walt Whitman (1998). “The Journalism: 1834-1846”, Peter Lang Pub Incorporated

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• The three most disastrous inventions of our time have been the birth control pill, the camera and nuclear weaponry. The first offers sex in terms of sterility, the second reality in terms of fantasy, and the third security in terms of destruction.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Sex, Birth Control Pills, Firsts

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• The runner stopped dead, lost his balance, froze in one of those violent attitudes in which the photographers petrify living reality.

  Jean Cocteau

  Attitude, Balance, Photographer

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• The line between the reality that is photographed because it seems beautiful to us and the reality that seems beautiful because it has been photographed is very narrow.

  Italo Calvino

  Beautiful, Lines, Has Beens

  Italo Calvino (2017). “Difficult Loves”, p.61, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Everyone should know nowadays the unimportance of the photographic in art: that truth, life, or reality is an organic thing which the poetic imagination can represent or suggest, in essence, only through transformation, through changing into other forms than those which were merely present in appearance.

  Tennessee Williams

  Art, Essence, Imagination

  Tennessee Williams (1990). “The Theatre of Tennessee Williams”, p.131, New Directions Publishing

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