#reality

My head’ll explode if I continue with this escapism. ↗

— Jess C. Scott

#books #cool #culture #desire #emotion

The Olympic Movement gives the world an ideal which reckons with the reality of life, and includes a possibility to guide this reality toward the great Olympic Idea. ↗

— Pierre de Coubertin

#great #guide #idea #ideal #includes

Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion. ↗

— David Cronenberg

#confuse #illusion #only #psychotics #reality

There's no point in living in an alternate reality. ↗

— Jessica Cutler

#living #no point #point #reality

Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality. ↗

— Ram Dass

#our #out #plans #reality #tasty

You talk about the values that you have whether they're in favor or not in favor. That's how you lead. The reality is, we're losing more and more elections. ↗

— Artur Davis

#elections #favor #how #lead #losing

The reality is, some people don't want you to change or go anywhere different. ↗

— Kenneth Edmonds

#change #different #go #people #reality

Human existence being an hallucination containing in itself the secondary hallucinations of day and night (the latter an insanitary condition of the atmosphere due to accretions of black air) it ill becomes any man of sense to be concerned at the illusory approach of the supreme hallucination known as death. ↗

— de Selby

#death #flann-o-brien #hallucinations #reality #the-third-policeman

Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#appreciate #disadvantage #education #elegance #following

Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside? ↗

— Mary Douglas

#believe #encouraged #frustration #grand #jealousy