#real

I talked to him on Christmas, and again on March 5th. Neither one of us hung up the phone that whole time. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#awkward #christmas #conversation #dead-air #march-

You'll see some bad things, but if you didn't see them, they'd still be happening. ↗

— Paula Fox

#realism #slavery #truth #truth-telling #slavery

I bought salvation from a man on the street. He said, "Go down to the beach and let the waves wash your feet. ↗

— Gabriel Rheaume

#detroit #religious #spirituality #suicide #surreal

You can understand a philosophy thoroughly without having to follow it; but you understand religion only partially, that is, as a mere philosophy, unless you follow it. ↗

— Raheel Farooq

#reality #religion #religion

There is one notable thing about our Christianity: bad, bloody, merciless, money-grabbing and predatory as it is -- in our country particularly, and in all other Christian countries in a somewhat modified degree -- it is still a hundred times better than the Christianity of the Bible, with its prodigious crime -- the invention of Hell. Measured by our Christianity of to-day, bad as it is, hypocritical as it is, empty and hollow as it is, neither the Deity nor His Son is a Christian, nor qualified for that moderately high place. Ours is a terrible religion. The fleets of the world could swim in spacious comfort in the innocent blood it has spilt. ↗

— Mark Twain

#reality #truth #money

A worldview is a commitment, a fundamental orientation of the heart, that can be expressed as a story or in a set of presuppositions (assumptions which may be true, partially true or entirely false) which we hold (consciously or subconsciously, consistently or inconsistently) about the basic constitution of reality, and that provides the foundations on which we live and more and have our being. ↗

— James W. Sire

#ideology #narrative #philosophy #presupposition #reality

The making of miracles to edification was as ardently admired by pious Victorians as it was sternly discouraged by Jesus of Nazareth. Not that the Victorians were unique in this respect. Modern writers also indulge in edifying miracles though they generally prefer to use them to procure unhappy endings, by which piece of thaumaturgy they win the title of realists. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#writing #respect

We're living in science fiction, but we don't realize it. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#realize #science-fiction #science

I wished that, for once, faery tales – real faery tales, not Disney fairy tales – would have a happy ending. ↗

— Julie Kagawa

#real

Justice is what is good for the stronger. ↗

— Thrasymachus

#political-science #realism #science