#reality

The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy. ↗

— Max Jacob

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A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#death #deeds #die #forever #good

what is love? love is you! ↗

— Sonia Dea Octalia

#love #reality #dreams

The second advantage claimed for naturalism is that it is equivalent to rationality, because it assumes a model of reality in which all events are in principle accessible to scientific investigation. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

#advantage #assumes #because #claimed #equivalent

There may be the kinds of things that you may find interesting, but then there's also the practical reality of needing to make a living and this is what you have to choose from. ↗

— Jeffrey Jones

#choose #find #interesting #kinds #living

Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it ↗

— John Keats

#life #reality #experience

What happens is that people who are very religious but who are not in touch with reality, cannot be spiritual. ↗

— Keith Miller

#happens #people #reality #religious #spiritual

The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves. ↗

— Kahlil Gibran

#reality #beauty

That was always my fear, that perhaps books would lead me astray, teaching me about a life that didn’t match reality. ↗

— Stefanos Livos

#imagination #literature #reality #stories #teach

Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it 'creative observation.' Creative viewing. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#existance #reality #art