Wole Soyinka Quotes

Don't take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion.

Wole Soyinka

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• Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Reality
  • Thoughts
  • Now

• The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.

  

  Tacitus
  • Great
  • Desire
  • Safety

• Companies need to understand that the quicker they report product safety problems to CPSC, the quicker we can take action together and protect consumers from injuries.

  

  Hal Stratton
  • Together
  • Action
  • Safety

• Any real virtual reality enthusiast can look back at VR science fiction. It's not about playing games... 'The Matrix,' 'Snow Crash,' all this fiction was not about sitting in a room playing video games. It's about being in a parallel digital world that exists alongside our own, communicating with other people, playing with other people.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• Every reality show plot pales in comparison to our history.

  

  Rachel Skarsten
  • History
  • Reality
  • Comparison

• The 21st-century curator works in a supremely globalised reality.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Reality
  • Works
  • Curator

• London had so much death in its history, it was hard to find a spot without spirits. They formed a safety net. Still, you had to hope the ones you got were good.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Good
  • History
  • Hope

• I always think that I have plenty of time for everything, and then the reality of it doesn't quite match up.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Up
  • Time
  • Think

• For me it's even more interesting, because my character comes out of the shadow. It's a chance to really act emotionally, because the situation is an extreme one.

  

  Ian McDiarmid
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Chance

• The attempt to live by the reality of our own nature, which means our limits as well as our potentials, is a profoundly moral regimen.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Live
  • Nature
  • Reality

• Reality is not exhausted by knowledge. Inaccessible to research are the ultimate facts. All scientific conclusions are based on axioms, all reasoning depends ultimately upon faith. Faith is virgin thinking, preceding all transcendent knowledge. To believe is to abide at the extremities of spirit.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Reality

• I try to encourage people to look at our past in a critical way because as our education, we have a great, great history. But in reality we are poorest in ethics and philosophy, so I try to raise people’s consciousness on how we deal with our past.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • People
  • Great
  • History

• My religiosity consists in a humble admiration of the infinitely superior spirit that reveals itself in the little that we, with our weak and transitory understanding, can comprehend of reality. Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • God
  • Reality
  • Understanding

• There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.

  

  Anais Nin
  • Free
  • Reality
  • Imagination

• My black hero is and always will be Martin Luther King, not just because of the strength of his oratory but because his vision was very much the reality that I'd come to take for granted.

  

  David Harewood
  • Reality
  • Black
  • Vision

• There is no fixed physical reality, no single perception of the world, just numerous ways of interpreting world views as dictated by one's nervous system and the specific environment of our planetary existence.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • World
  • Reality
  • Single

• I like to watch all those shows that shouldn't be on the air - reality shows.

  

  Jerry Lewis
  • Reality
  • Air

• I have so much to thank reality TV for.

  

  Sia LSD
  • Reality

• For most of us, when our 'dreams' - I use the word with reservations - came true, and marriage and motherhood became a reality, the romcoms, like horoscopes, swiftly lost their allure.

  

  Mariella Frostrup
  • True
  • Reality
  • Lost

• After a post-Bill Berry softening with albums like 'Up' and 'Reveal,' R.E.M. seems to be toughening up again; on the strength of the first single, 'Discoverer,' the band's new record looks to continue with the same muscular rock and roll that defined its last album, 'Accelerate.'

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Up
  • Single
  • Band

• I have to shoot without any breaks. I yell at Herzog and hit him. I have to fight for every sequence. I wish Herzog would catch the plague, more than ever.

  

  Klaus Kinski
  • Wish

• Fiction is the study of the human condition under imagined circumstances.

  

  Charles Stross
  • Study

• I now myself live, in every detail, striving for wisdom, while I formerly merely worshipped and idolized the wise.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Live
  • Wisdom
  • Wise

• Don't take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Reality
  • Safety
  • Shadow