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#reality

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #reality




You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance.


Charles Ives


#cannot #corner #hope #off #reality

Everything depends therefore on encountering thought at its source. Such thought is the reality of man's being, which achieved consciousness and understanding of itself through it.


Karl Jaspers


#being #consciousness #depends #encountering #everything

I'm trying to stay as calm as possible and focus one day at a time, but when reality sets in, I feel everything: anxiety, excitement, nerves, pressure and joy.


Shawn Johnson


#calm #day #everything #excitement #feel

One might suppose that reality must be held to at all costs. However, though that may be the moral thing to do, it is not necessarily the most useful thing to do. The Greeks themselves chose the ideal over the real in their geometry and demonstrated very well that far more could be achieved by consideration of abstract line and form than by a study of the real lines and forms of the world; the greater understanding achieved through abstraction could be applied most usefully to the very reality that was ignored in the process of gaining knowledge.


Isaac Asimov


#math #reality #science #science

Our approach to reality, our sense of reality, cannot assume that the text of nature, the book of life, is a cryptogram concealing just a single meaning. Rather, it is an expanding riddle of a multiplicity of resonating images.


Peter Redgrove


#meaning #nature #reality #symbols #life

Things aren't like this," he kept repeating. "It shouldn't be this way." As if he had access to some other plane of existence, some parallel, "right" universe, and had sensed that our time had somehow been put out of joint. Such was his vehemence that I found myself believing him, believing, for example, in the possibility of that other life in which Vina had never left and we were making our lives together, all three of us, ascending together to the stars. Then he shook his head, and the spell broke. He opened his eyes, grinning ruefully. As if he knew his thoughts had infected mine. As if he knew his power. "Better get on with it," he said. "Make do with what there is.


Salman Rushdie


#parallel-universe #pragmatism #reality #life

We should tackle reality in a slightly jokey way, otherwise we miss its point.


Lawrence Durrell


#reality #life

Tatsuya: What you have "right now" won't necessarily continue on until forever... Hiro: ... Yeah, I know.


Ibuki Haneda


#forever #happiness #reality #love

The first year was like icing. Then the cake started to show through …


John Ashbery


#cake #love #poetry #reality #year

You can take a dog outside, but you can't make it pee


Micah Amyx


#humor #pee #reality #humor






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