“Be patient, do nothing, cease striving. We find this advice disheartening and therefore unfeasible because we forget it is our own inflexible… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
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Now, for Romney to believe that somebody's grandmother is going to be so cut off she is going to self deport... He… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
For to the extent that we act toward others as we feel we might, we open ourselves to their inner reality, and… — C. Terry Warner Copy Share Image
The practical man demands an appearance of reality at least. Always dealing in the concrete, he regards mathematical terms not as symbols… — Tobias Dantzig Copy Share Image
“David Hume, the greatest skeptic of them all, once remarked that after a gathering of skeptics met to proclaim the veracity of… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Immediate knowledge tells us only that God is, not what he is. But if God is not an empty Being beyond the… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
It has been said that I have three heroes: Christ, Marx and Freud. This is reducing everything to formulae. In truth, my… — Pier Paolo Pasolini Copy Share Image
... in the eyes of its visitors, Venice has no reality of its own. Anyone visiting the place has already seen so… — Christian Boltanski Copy Share Image
The concept of individual rights is so prodigious a feat of political thinking that few men grasp it fully - and two… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
[P]rescientific people... could never guess the nature of physical reality beyond the tiny sphere attainable by unaided common sense. Nothing else ever… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
So it is useless to evade reality, because it only makes it more virulent in the end. But instead, look steadfastly into… — Caitlin Thomas Copy Share Image
The aim of the poet is to inform or delight, or to combine together, in what he says, both pleasure and applicability… — Horace Copy Share Image
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As [Gershom] Scholem explains, this [Shabbetaian] doctrine is connected to the idea that 'the elect are fundamentally different from the crowd and… — Shadia Drury Copy Share Image
I was in New York 9/11. Mark's [Wahlberg] from Boston, flew there immediately after. I was in Nice Bastille Day when the… — Peter Berg Copy Share Image
I see the world at peace. If we can hold that thought, that thought has a power. The thought is witnessing a… — John Morton Copy Share Image
It's difficult to make movies. For me it was easier, as a refugee in Switzerland, to make documentary films, because I didn't… — Mano Khalil Copy Share Image
We can construct, deconstruct and reconstruct our sexuality any way we want: it is our privilege as thinking creatures. However, human sexuality… — Jennifer Morse Copy Share Image
Puerto Rican independence movement wasn't just rooted in some sort of personal intransigence or some passionate Latino temperament. It was rooted in… — Nelson Antonio Denis Copy Share Image
I, the dreamer clinging yet to the dream as the patient clings to the last thin unbearable ecstatic instant of agony in… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
It is immediately apparent, however, that this sense-world, this seemingly real external universe - though it may be useful and valid in… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
I think we create our own reality by the thoughts we have. Recovery for me has been learning how to choose my… — Dan Fante Copy Share Image
Withdraw allegiance from the old categories of the Negative (law, limit, castration, lack, lacuna), which the Western thought has so long held… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Perhaps people need to understand some history here. Rene Descartes, in the late 16th, early 17th century, postulated that body, mind, physicality… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
I grew up in a show business family, so we've always had a great sense of balance, being so close to my… — Andy Gibb Copy Share Image
Falsehood, like a drawing in perspective, will not bear to be examined in every point of view, because it is a good… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I think that people are going to find more interest in the human condition, especially with them being weaned on so much… — Dolph Lundgren Copy Share Image
The second thing: nobody has ever been able to drop the ego because ego is not a reality that you can drop;… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
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Oliver Wendell Holmes said, "Think things, not words." In words, many see a need for "social justice" to override "the dictates of… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Zen takes the opposite tack; it holds that true reality is the fundamental unity of mind and matter, inner spirit and external… — Tom Hoover Copy Share Image
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Wasn't it better if they kept this desire to see each other hidden within them, and never actually got together? That way,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others. Inner peace is… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
Scholars of the East and West have heroically consecrated their whole working lives to making available, by means of their own disciplines,… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
The only thing I've consistently been interested in in the last twenty-five years is writing very short texts. That continues to interest… — Sarah Manguso Copy Share Image
If we have a Democratic Senate I think the Republican Party will wake up to the reality that their opposition to comprehensive… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
“Nature is typified by strength; humanity by weakness. Nature adheres to an immutable order; humanity to an ever-increasing chaos. Nature recognizes no… — Boyd Rice Copy Share Image
Monotheism is the primitive religion which centers human consciousness on Hive Authority. There is One God and His Name is _______ (substitute… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
![“... in the eyes of its visitors, Venice has no reality of its own. Anyone visiting the place has already seen so many pictures of it that they can only attempt to view it via these clichés, and they take home photographs of Venice that are similar to the ones they already knew. Venice [is]…” quote by Christian Boltanski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/27a/christian-boltanski-23691_backdrop_in-the-eyes-of-its-visitors-venice-has-n_158297.jpg)
![“[P]rescientific people... could never guess the nature of physical reality beyond the tiny sphere attainable by unaided common sense. Nothing else ever worked, no exercise from myth, revelation, art, trance, or any other conceivable means; and notwithstanding the emotional satisfaction it gives…” quote by E. O. Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0d0/e-o-wilson-1348_art_p-rescientific-people-could-never-guess_717283.jpg)
![“As [Gershom] Scholem explains, this [Shabbetaian] doctrine is connected to the idea that 'the elect are fundamentally different from the crowd and not to be judged by its standards. Standing under a new spiritual law and representing as it were a new kind of reality, they are beyond good and…” quote by Shadia Drury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3b7/shadia-drury-74677_beyond-good-and-evil_as-gershom-scholem-explains-this-shabbet_2038151.jpg)
![“I was in New York 9/11. Mark's [Wahlberg] from Boston, flew there immediately after. I was in Nice Bastille Day when the truck drove through and killed all these people. It's the new reality, unfortunately. The idea of trying to explore how we process this kind of event, how we survive…” quote by Peter Berg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/185/peter-berg-14447_bastille_i-was-in-new-york-9-11-mark-s-wahlberg-f_2093673.jpg)
