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

• 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 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

• So, we, as human beings, live in a very imprecise world. A world where our perceptions of reality are far more important than actual reality.

  

  Daniel Keys Moran
  • World
  • Important
  • Live

• Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

  

  Philip K. Dick
  • Reality
  • Stop

• Television is a very highly constructed, and edited, and censored, and tailored, and marketed reality. But I'm not judgemental about it. I don't have anything against television. I just personally don't feel curious.

  

  Jodhi May
  • Reality
  • Judgemental

• Despite the beliefs and teachings of religion and psychology, impulses are biological and psychic directional signals to nudge the individual toward his or her greatest opportunities for expression and development privately, and also to insure the person's contribution to mass social reality.

  

  Jane Roberts
  • Reality
  • Psychology

• And I will never, ever respond to anybody - man, woman, vegetable, or mineral - who tells me to keep my mouth shut.

  

  Janice Dickinson

• Rugrats was my favorite cartoon growing up as a kid.

  

  Michael Angarano
  • Kids
  • Growing
  • Cartoon

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

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Reality
  • Safety
  • Shadow