Words bend our thinking to infinite paths of self-delusion, and the fact that we spend most of our mental lives in brain… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
To transcend means to "go beyond," but this need not compel us to an ornate dualist view that regards transcendent levels of… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
Religions are easy to invent. Most traditional religions have little or nothing to do with reality, are dependent on obfuscation, interpretation, guilt,… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
People still assume the White House Correspondents' Association works for the White House, when in reality, it's a group of journalists who… — Hasan Minhaj Copy Share Image
There is something evocative about the idea of destruction. This act of destruction is the expression of an idea... that what we… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
Real peace comes only when you stop chasing it. When you relax your driving desire for comfort, real fulfillment arises. When you… — Henepola Gunaratana Copy Share Image
I'm urging all my millennial peers and the young people coming up behind us to look for signs and symptoms of them… — Charlie Kirk Copy Share Image
A short story is a writer's way of thinking through experience... Journalism aims at accuracy, but fiction's aim is truth. The writer… — John L'Heureux Copy Share Image
Man's life is thought, And he, despite his terror, cannot cease Ravening through century after century, Ravening, raging, and uprooting that he… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Do not close your eyes before suffering. Find ways to be with those who are suffering by all means, Including personal contact… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“There is beauty all around us, and the light finds us when we realize, we are all part of that beauty and… — Tom Althouse Copy Share Image
Worship is our response to the overtures of love from the heart of the Father. Its central reality is found 'in spirit… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
Trying to maintain a pleasant state and avoid an unpleasant state is actually the cause of sorrow. When you stop resisting, you… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
In this situation, it becomes vital that our own country orient its policies in consonance with this basic evolutionary condition rather than… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
I don't think it ever does any harm in any business to feel that there is someone there who cares about it.… — Andre Balazs Copy Share Image
For me, it was really a childhood dream coming true. It's sort of where the fantasy led reality, and then I got… — Mae Jemison Copy Share Image
She has spent most of the day reading and is feeling rather out of touch with reality, as if her own life… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
Planning to play: that's what saving for retirement is today - and it is antithetical to the nature of play, fully within… — John Thorn Copy Share Image
Time and times are but cogwheels, unmatched, grinding on oblivious to one another. Occasionally - oh, very rarely! - the cogs fit;… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
We often take for granted that our lights will come on when we flip the light switch, but the reality is that… — Richard Burr Copy Share Image
The Senate was holding hearings on deceptive sweepstakes practices. These companies target the elderly, making them think they're going to get a… — Colin Quinn Copy Share Image
The reality of our century is technology: the invention, construction and maintenance of machines. To be a user of machines is to… — Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Copy Share Image
Our approach to reality, our sense of reality, cannot assume that the text of nature, the book of life, is a cryptogram… — Peter Redgrove Copy Share Image
The great cosmic illusion is a hierophany… One is devoured by Time, not because one lives in Time, but because one believes… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
At a certain stage of our progressive attainment, every Initiate undergoes an "Illumination by Sound" in which the Music of the Spheres… — Corinne Heline Copy Share Image
I have always enjoyed dealing with a slightly surrealistic situation and presenting it in a realistic manner. I've always liked fairy tales… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
It was a play of opportunity. It's certainly something that he can do. He has the wherewithal to do that. It's a… — Les Miles Copy Share Image
“When the river of emotions bursts its banks and expectations go over the edges of reality, the brain creates hallucinations. Ringxiety-stricken people… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality… — Mark Knopfler Copy Share Image
“Thomas, says there are no real dragons. Only they are in your head, he says." "Thomas is right, my love, so do… — Karen Harper Copy Share Image
The war was an escape to reality... The only thing that mattered were human relationships; not money, not position, not even family...… — William Wyler Copy Share Image
The physical reinvention of the world is endless, relentless, fascinating, exhaustive; nothing that seems solid is. If you could stand at just… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
How can there be methods and systems to arrive at something that is living? To that which is static, fixed, dead, there… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
I directed 24's pilot. I felt we should follow the characters around as if we were a documentary crew, using available light,… — Stephen Hopkins Copy Share Image
The value of science is not simply what the next model of the iPod you will buy next week, but its real… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Why are all reflections lovelier than what we call reality? -- not so grand or so strong, it may be, but always… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
To the enlightened man... whose consciousness embraces the universe, to him the universe becomes his 'body', while the physical body becomes the… — Anagarika Govinda Copy Share Image
This is the most religious country in the world and sometimes we try to stifle that fact or hide it. But the… — Joe Lieberman Copy Share Image
Act as if what you intend to manifest in life is already a reality. Eliminate thoughts of conditions, limitations, or the possibility… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
