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Reality Quotes by Simone Weil
- Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false?
- Attachment is a manufacturer of illusion and whoever wants reality ought to be detached.
- Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
- The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object…
- A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to…
- Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
- One can never really give a proof of the reality of anything; reality is not something open to proof, it is something established. It is…
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- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
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