Reality Quotes

10773 Reality quotes by 5151 unique authors

Too often the result of affirmative action has been an artificial diversity that gives the appearance of parity between blacks and whites that has not… — Shelby Steele
Human beings are compelled to adopt a belief system; some paradigm to provide meaning, purpose, and understanding to our lives. A quick survey of the… — Terry Rossio
Very few of the heroes of the Golden Age of American finance had much interest in the solid realities of what underlay their structure of… — Robert Heilbroner
Did you think you could have the good without the evil? Did you think you could have the joy without the sorrow? . . .… — Ray Stannard Baker
What is different in capitalist civilization has been two things. First, the process of meritocracy has been proclaimed as an official virtue instead of being… — Immanuel Wallerstein
A second variety concentrated on presumed major transformations of the capitalist system as of some recent point in time, in which the whole earlier point… — Immanuel Wallerstein
We must distinguish between the kind of structural transformation that would leave in place (even increase) the realities of the exploitation of labor, and one… — Immanuel Wallerstein
Mortality is, in reality, a very, very short period. It is literally a snap of the fingers compared to an eternity. It is so short… — Hartman Rector, Jr.
To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause with the birth… — Mary McCarthy
In this oasis of quiet, before the wonderful spectacle of nature, one easily experiences how profitable silence is, a good that today is ever more… — Pope John Paul II
It is a time of darkness, of faith. We shall not see Christ's radiance in our lives yet; it is still hidden in our darkness;… — Caryll Houselander
The modern world, a world which has experienced marvelous achievements but which seems to have lost its sense of ultimate realities and of existence itself. — Pope John Paul II
Pure logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge of the empirical world. All knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in it. — Albert Einstein
If we judged by realities we should give honor not to the rich for the fine clothes they wear but to the poor who are… — Odo of Cluny
Grief is accepting the reality of what is. That is grief's job and purpose-to allow us to come to terms with the way things really… — Henry Cloud
Hate a liar more than I hate thief. A thief is only after my salary a liar is after my reality. — Curtis Jackson
Events appear sad, pleasant, or painful, not because they are so in reality, but because we believe them to be so and the light in… — Petrarch
I have absolutely no fear of death. From my near-death research and my personal experiences, death is, in my judgment, simply a transition into another… — Raymond Moody
The only reality is God. There cannot be another and God is love. — Unknown Author
The spirit of a country, if it is to be true to itself, needs continually to draw great breaths of inspiration from the simple realities… — Unknown Author
The world exists only when we think about it; creation stories are for children. In reality the world is created every moment. — Jean Klein
This is how you falsify reality, ... The problem in India is not the Islamic fundamentalists. It's the Hindu fundamentalists, who will destroy India in… — Mahesh Bhatt
The reality is that if we in this rich, lucky quarter of the planet cannot make a stand for the 30 million other species we… — Bob Brown
Because I have confidence in the power of truth and in the spirit, I believe in the future of mankind. Affirmation of the world and… — Albert Schweitzer
Written language must be considered as a particular psychic reality. The book is permanent; it is an object in your field of vision. It speaks… — Gaston Bachelard

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