Reality Quotes - page 3

The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable. (Andrea Dworkin)
The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left. View quote
Orson Welles
Poetry is the deification of reality. View quote
Edith Sitwell
The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish. View quote
Samuel Gompers
It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept. View quote
Bill Watterson
Reality continues to ruin my life. View quote
Bill Watterson
I refer, of course, to the debts our nation has amassed for itself over decades of indulgence. It is the new Red Menace, this time consisting of ink. We can debate its origins endlessly and search for villains on ideological grounds, but the reality is pure arithmetic. View quote
Mitch Daniels
Humankind cannot bear very much reality. View quote
T. S. Eliot
Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive. View quote
William F. Buckley
What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. View quote
Plutarch
Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence. (George Steiner)
Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose. View quote
Czesław Miłosz
Art is not a reflection of reality, it is the reality of a reflection. View quote
Jean-Luc Godard
Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion. View quote
David Cronenberg
They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality. View quote
Frida Kahlo
The third world is not a reality, but an ideology. View quote
Hannah Arendt
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. View quote
Hannah Arendt
The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience. View quote
Frank Herbert
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary. View quote
Wilhelm Reich
Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality. (Nikola Tesla)
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. View quote
Albert Einstein
Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language. View quote
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Time is but a thought, a means of measurement, not a reality. View quote
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