Psychoanalysis justifies its importance by asserting that it forces you to look to and accept reality. But what sort of reality? A… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
Moving swiftly between different arenas like politics, architecture or commercial design is what I would consider defintive of my generation. I am… — Sarah Morris Copy Share Image
[Mortal City ] was also the beginning of the reality of the fact that I was going to have little pieces of… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
“The fact that reality doesn’t match what you want or expect isn’t reality’s fault. Besides, authenticity is overrated. When you were a… — Scott Meyer Copy Share Image
Democracy, to maintain itself, must repeatedly conquer every cell and corner of the nation. How many of our public institutions and private… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
The most powerful thing you can do to change the world is to change your own beliefs about the nature of life,… — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
The Australian Gerald Murnane, a genius on the level of Beckett, is known in Australia and Sweden but almost nowhere else. And… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
I would like to do a story where the country found itself a presidential candidate who actually will get elected preaching traditional… — Chris Claremont Copy Share Image
I started out in psychedelic drugs, and people said it was a flight from reality. It still is a flight from reality,… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Officials of governments that use or produce landmines should be forced to see the reality of how landmines hurt people and make… — Jackie Chan Copy Share Image
Nowledge which... transcends the bounds, the prejudices and prejudgements of any one society and culture is not an illusion but, on the… — Ernest Gellner Copy Share Image
You're not friends because you sit together at lunch, or talk on the phone, or you have matching flip-flops, or because can… — Bernajoy Vaal Copy Share Image
I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist. And my reality is that we live in a multifaceted, multicultural world. And maybe once… — Octavia Spencer Copy Share Image
It feels really bad when you fall in love with someone you can't have.It feels even worse when you are sure that… — Mhargs Abuda Copy Share Image
Since when has love ever looked for reasons, or evidence? Why would love bow to the reality of things, when it creates… — Paul Murray Copy Share Image
In a democracy, if people don't have accurate information, how can they be active citizens? How can they be part of the… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
As a Palestinian today I speak of a Palestinian and Arab demand for a state on 1967 borders. It is true that… — Khaled Mashal Copy Share Image
Then he reflected that reality does not usually coincide with our anticipation of it; with a logic of his own he inferred… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The Difference Engine can in reality (as has been already partly explained) do nothing but add; and any other processes, not excepting… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
Feynman's cryptic remark, "no one is that much smarter ...," to me, implies something Feynman kept emphasizing: that the key to his… — Philip Warren Anderson Copy Share Image
At the heart of 'The Famished Road' is a philosophical conundrum - for me, an essential one: what is reality? Everybody's reality… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
Often, when I want to read something that is satisfying to me as theology, what I actually read is string theory, or… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Everyone thinks that religion is the ball and chain. But the reality is that sin is the ball and chain. A relationship… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Natural politicians are skilled actors, recreating reality, adjusting and ad-libbing, synthesizing the scenes, saying the same thing over and over again and… — David Maraniss Copy Share Image
For a strong adversary (corps) the opposition of twenty-four squadrons and twelve guns ought not to have appeared very serious, but in… — Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim Copy Share Image
Catastrophic damage from climate-driven extreme weather is now an annual reality. The cost of not dealing with it will be much greater… — Avi Lewis Copy Share Image
“The firelight touches and transfigures her face, and we see, concretely illustrated, the impossible paradox and supreme truth—that perception is (or at… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Wake up! Wake up! Soon the person you believe you are will die - so now, wake up and be content with… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
“Well," said Ash, and she got out of her own bed and came to sit beside Jules. "I've always sort of felt… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
Most people sabotage themselves because they aren't mindful in the moment. Let your daily actions be governed by your goals & dreams.… — Jillian Michaels Copy Share Image
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, the United States would enter, in a formal way, what had been up… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
It is only that my illusion is more real to me than reality. And so do we often build our world on… — Mary Antin Copy Share Image
If Brock Lesnar was here right now, I'd take my boot off and throw it at him, and he'd better polish it… — Chael Sonnen Copy Share Image
Dying is like diving into a deep lake on a hot day. There's the shock of that sharp, cold change, the pain… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
We're not going to walk into the World Cup thinking, 'Ah, you know, we beat Norway 5-0 and we beat Japan so… — Kasey Keller Copy Share Image
Truth and reality in art do not arise until you no longer understand what you are doing and are capable of but… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
For me, it's just a normal artistic endeavour to explore the dark side. Certainly, I'm not alone in it. Artists generally don't… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
Somehow, there is this feeling that women require remedial financial education, and so everything must be dumbed down. The reality is that… — Sallie Krawcheck Copy Share Image
I felt proud of them and happy for them as friends. But then I was, not jealous in a bad way, but… — Malik Rose Copy Share Image
Imagination consists in expelling from reality several incomplete persons, and then using the magic and subversive powers of desire to bring them… — Rene Char Copy Share Image