#real

The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it. ↗

— Daniel Webster

#appearance #fully #governed #know #more

My nature is to be linear, and when I'm not, I feel really proud of myself. ↗

— Cynthia Weil

#i #i feel #linear #myself #nature

On the other hand when you are someone who records their own songs you are basically stuck writing for one voice and for one style that can stifle you a bit. It's a real trade off. ↗

— Cynthia Weil

#bit #hand #off #other #own

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life. ↗

— Simone Weil

#fiction #life #make #make up #more

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. ↗

— Simone Weil

#attained #detached #great #illusions #only

The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation. ↗

— Simone Weil

#contemplation #degraded #faith #into #made

When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door. ↗

— Simone Weil

#door #except #impossible #know #lie

We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise. ↗

— Simone Weil

#imaginary #must #paradise #prefer #real

Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him. ↗

— Simone Weil

#compassion #difficult #him #just #know

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it. ↗

— Simone Weil

#does #first #force #intoxicates #man