#reality

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

It is not good enough for things to be planned - they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation. ↗

— Walt Kelly

#done #energy #enough #good #intention

Film is a dramatised reality and it is the director's job to make it appear real... an audience should not be conscious of technique. ↗

— David Lean

#audience #conscious #director #film #job

I would be going until I went over the bounds of reality and was then caught up in a profound wish to be dead without having to go through the shaming defeat of suicide. ↗

— Joshua Logan

#caught #dead #defeat #go #going

There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#reality

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

Reality can be beaten with enough imagination. ↗

— Mark Twain

#reality #imagination