“Fiction isn't bad. It is vital. Without commonly accepted stories about things like money, states or corporations, no complex human society can… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Many have imagined republics and principalities which have never been seen or known to exist in reality; for how we live is… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“I remember Mitchell Sanders sitting quietly in the shade of an old banyan tree. He was using a thumbnail to pry off… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
The reality is: By the time swine flu got on the radar screen of global public health, it had already spread. It… — Nathan Wolfe Copy Share Image
Everyone in the Lotus Eaters is so concerned with appearances, but there's an emptiness under the surface that they're trying to ignore.… — Alexandra McGuinness Copy Share Image
I've already had a hard time dealing with some of the trappings of success and turned to some pretty stereotypical escape routes… — Zachary Cole Smith Copy Share Image
President Trump, who made his name in the business world and built a brand as a successful CEO via a reality TV… — Kristen Soltis Anderson Copy Share Image
When you are young, you need to know the reality because when you are in your bubble, you believe that, always, all… — Mauricio Pochettino Copy Share Image
The aim of human life is to know thyself. Think for yourself. Question authority. Think with your friends. Create, create new realities.… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
That is the first thing to learn — not to seek. When you seek you are really only window-shopping. The question of… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
One of the things about being a law student is that the academic discipline of law is very often removed from the… — Robert Rinder Copy Share Image
There's a stigma about reality shows and the people who star in them. Reality shows mean your career will end, your marriage… — Angela Yee Copy Share Image
I am seized with an abiding fear regarding what these two instruments are doing to our society, our culture and our heritage.… — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
Realities disguised as symbols are, for me, new realities that are immeasurably preferable. I make an effort to take them at their… — Claude Cahun Copy Share Image
I think a lot of the questions - questioning reality and the self and the desire to change, to me are always… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Directors like Satyajit Ray, Rossellini, Bresson, Buñuel, Forman, Scorsese, and Spike Lee have used non-professional actors precisely in order that the people… — John Berger Copy Share Image
By observing natural scientific discoveries through a perception deepened by meditation, we can develop a new awareness of reality. This awareness could… — Albert Hofmann Copy Share Image
The very essence of meditation is to be so silent that there is no stirring of thoughts in you, that words don't… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
As long as you feel pain, you're still alive. As long as you make mistakes, you're still human. And as long as… — Bernajoy Vaal Copy Share Image
Here's an easy way to see if a war movie is being truthful: If you see an explosion on a faraway hillside… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
It's so difficult to even suggest to me that I can't always achieve what I want right now; sometimes that is the… — Glenda Bailey Copy Share Image
Greed, fear, lust, hate, jealousy, these are part of reality too ... bundles of consciousness wrapped tightly, barbs on which you can… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
For Christians ultimate reality is and can only be a personal, sovereign, holy, and loving God. But even some Christians, under extra-biblical… — Roger E. Olson Copy Share Image
“One reality and truth about life is that either you suffer now and become successful in the future... Or do what it… — Onipede Ayomide Copy Share Image
I love the combination of smartness, pain, and what one might call conscious postmodern trashiness in this book: a version of the… — Alicia Ostriker Copy Share Image
Happiness is your real nature. You identify with yourself with the body and mind, feel it's limitations, and suffer. Realize your true… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
“A question. So what are people supposed to do if they want to avoid a collision (thud!) but still lie in the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The 'reality' shows on television, the Internet, these things have encouraged people to behave with less and less restraint. We are broadcasting… — Tim Pigott-Smith Copy Share Image
“There is a bird in a poem by T. S. Eliot who says that mankind cannot bear very much reality; but the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
You see a lot of interesting visual irony on movie sets all the time, you know duality, set illusions, the reality, all… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
I have travelled enough internationally to know and accept the reality that, overwhelmingly, people are well disposed to Australia but in truth… — Julia Gillard Copy Share Image
There's just something about this job as president every president faces, you know, that you think one thing going in and then… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Are Americans afraid to face the reality that there is a significant portion of this world's population that hates America, hates what… — Sean Hannity Copy Share Image
Reality television was in some ways being unimaginative at that time. We were excited about the possibilities of the form, to use… — John Landgraf Copy Share Image
A name is so important in biblical settings that Scripture frequently mentions God Himself changing someone's name to reflect a new reality.… — Tony Evans Copy Share Image
The only excuse for a novelist, aside from the entertainment and vicarious living his books give the people who read them, is… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
At the most simplistic level physicists tell us that what we see as reality is not actually accurate. A rock looks solid… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“We are all wired into a survival trip now. No more of the speed that fueled that 60's. That was the fatal… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Too often the result of affirmative action has been an artificial diversity that gives the appearance of parity between blacks and whites… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
It is a psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind; that is,… — Orison S. Marden Copy Share Image
