Vs Reality Quotes
What we call knowledge does not and cannot have the purpose of producing representations of an independent reality, but instead has an adaptive function.
The realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know.
Skepticism is only a time-based reality, and as an ultimate reality, it's always wrong, because everything always happens.
The acceptance of certain realities doesn't preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs.
Not to dream more boldly may turn out to be, in view of present realities, simply irresponsible.
The body comes and goes. This life, my friend, will come and go. It is a fleeting moment, an impulse in an eternal reality.
It's my belief that sanity lies in realizing that reality is not exactly what we had in mind.
Dream what you want! Start creating your own reality! Work hard for it and the rest will follow! Love and Blessings!
Literature should be more revolutionary than revolutions themselves; writers must find the means to continue to be critical of the negative elements in the sociopolitical reality.
Photographic cropping is always experienced as a rupture in the continuous fabric of reality.
The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda.
People are rarely as attractive in reality as they are in the eyes of the people who are in love with them. Which is, I suppose, as it should be.
People suffer from pain and call it evil, yet in reality it may be growing pains of the Spirit-the changing of the body into a finer and more spiritual substance.
Life's missed opportunities, at the end, may seem more poignant to us than those we embraced — because in our imagination they have a perfection that reality can never rival.
The fear is not real, Dil Bahadur; it is only in your mind, like all other things. Our thoughts form what we believe to be reality.
We need to educate people about the reality of Islam, the logics of Islam. I am sure every free man in this world would fight the ideology of Islam.
Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that.
The difference between a GOP convention and Comic-Con is that the people at Comic-Con have a much firmer grasp of reality.
If you did not write every day, the poisons would accumulate and you would begin to die, or act crazy or both-you must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.
Monotheism owes its existence not to philosophic speculation about the nature of reality or knowledge or virtue, but to acceptance of reality identified with a supreme being.
Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain begins to fester.
The true problem with virtual reality is that orientation is no longer possible. We have lost our points of reference to orient ourselves. The de-realized man is a disoriented man.
Loving the ideal more than the reality is the cause of all the misery the human species creates for itself.
People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still.
I wrote a book called The Taste of New Wine because I couldn't find a book that talked about the reality of the situation and how we were dishonest and afraid.
I want story, wit, music, wryness, color, and a sense of reality in what I read, and I try to get it in what I write.
People who say that violence doesn't accomplish anything have not read history. I don't celebrate that reality, but there you have it.
There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.
Story isn't a flight from reality but a vehicle that carries us on our search for reality.
History is that form which his imagination seeks comprehension of the living existence of the world in relation to his own life, which he thereby invests with a deeper reality.
Learning between grown-ups and kids should be reciprocal. The reality, unfortunately, is a little different, and it has a lot to do with trust, or a lack of it.
Dreams, though, are cheap, and the real task comes when you start putting in place the steps needed to make those dreams a reality.
The end (goal) of art is to figure the hidden meaning of things and not their appearance; for in this profound truth lies their true reality, which does not appear in their external outlines.
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
I look at my music in the beginning, and the sexual songs, the partying songs, those are the realities because those things happen.
Thus my faith grew that my beautiful dream for the future would become reality after all, even though this might require long years.
observation of realities has never, to put it mildly, been one of the strengths of economic development theory.
TV networks are dying. The death throes of religion give us jihads. The death throes of television give us reality shows.
Truth and reality in art do not arise until you no longer understand what you are doing and are capable of but nevertheless sense a power that grows in proportion to your resistance.
