Realities Quotes

• Time is the product of changing realities, beings, existences.

  

  Nikolai Berdyaev
  • Time
  • Realities
  • Existences

• 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 of the country; from the smell of its soil, the pattern of its fields, the beauty of its scenery and from the men and women who dwell and toil in the rural areas.

  

  George Stapledon
  • Country
  • Spirit
  • Inspiration

• Only a philosopher's mind grows wings, since its memory always keeps it as close as possible to those realities by being close to which the gods are divine.

  

  Plato
  • Memory
  • Philosopher
  • Realities

• Acknowledging the realities of structural and institutional racism is hard for conscionable white people. It might ask them to consider how they're personally implicated, or have gained from systems that have oppressed and rejected others. It might require them to take a next step. It's easier to say, "I don't see race," or to dismiss the Black Lives Matter movement as structureless and theatrical than to embrace and promote its most basic premise, which is to believe that black lives have worth.

  

  Emily Raboteau
  • Believe
  • Racism
  • Consider

• Please believe that one single positive dream is more important than a thousand negative realities.

  

  Adeline Yen Mah
  • Important
  • Dream
  • Realities

• Some trans people thought that in claiming that gender is performative that I was saying that it is all a fiction, and that a person's felt sense of gender was therefore "unreal." That was never my intention. I sought to expand our sense of what gender realities could be. But I think I needed to pay more attention to what people feel, how the primary experience of the body is registered, and the quite urgent and legitimate demand to have those aspects of sex recognized and supported.

  

  Judith Butler
  • People
  • Gender
  • Supported

• Reasonable ideas which find their sanction in the conscience of the righteous do not die; they are consequently realities and active forces, but they are so only to the extent that those who profess them know how to turn them to account.

  

  Ernesto Teodoro Moneta
  • Conscience
  • Forces
  • Account

• There comes a moment... When imagination gives out and Reality leaps forth. It is frightful!

  

  August Strindberg
  • Reality
  • Imagination
  • Monent

• Current cant equates fantasy with escapism, and current fashion would have it that fantasy is both easy to read and to write. It isn't. When it is done honestly, by a skillful writer, fantasy takes us far enough beyond our daily perceptions to open us to the essential realities beneath it. This is the true goal of all art.

  

  Ellen Kushner
  • Art
  • Fashion
  • Goal

• A fear-based faith distorts a lot of things, but what it distorts the most is the reflection we see in the mirror. Fear has a way of reflecting ugliness and distorted realities--lies with the appearance of truth--and gives us the false impression that fear tells the truth while concealing the reality that fear is a liar. It may be a good liar because it mixes fact with fiction, but it's a liar nonetheless. The reflections of fear must never be trusted, no matter how many nuggets of truth may be mixed in those ugly waters.

  

  Benjamin L. Corey
  • Truth
  • Faith
  • Mirror

• And one has to remember that no photography can pretend to show the truth. A picture only shows a given situation under a very specific perspective, consciously or not, openly or not, relevantly or not. Photographers have to accept they can just convey fragments of illusory realities and relate their own intimate experience of the world. In this process of fictionalising an unreachable truth, it's up to them to impose their doubts about any photographic truth, or accept being impotent pawns in the mediatic game.

  

  Antoine D'Agata
  • Truth
  • Photography
  • Realities

• It seems that certain transcendental realities emit rays to which the masses are sensitive. That is how, for example, when an event takes place, when at the front an army is in danger, or defeated, or victorious, the rather obscure news which the cultivated man does not quite understand, excite in the masses an emotion which surprises him and in which, once the experts have informed him of the actual military situation, he recognizes the populace's perception of that "aura" surrounding great events and visible for hundreds of kilometers.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Army
  • Danger
  • Surprises

• We say and exclaim within ourselves without breaking silence, in a tumult where everything speaks except our mouths. The realities of the soul are none the less real for being invisible and impalpable.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Soul
  • Silence
  • Realities

• We must have a spiritual rebirth. We must be born out of the belief in externalities into the belief of inner realities, out of the belief that we are separated from God, into the belief that we are part of a Unitary Wholeness.

  

  Ernest Holmes
  • God
  • Spiritual
  • Belief

• As soon as I saw him again I could forget all this existed; I would be calm. Was that a definition of love: a force that can drug you with calm and help you forget all the sandpaper realities of the world?

  

  Alix Ohlin
  • Love
  • Definition
  • Realities

• I think so much of my early life, even though I grew up White and middle class, I was completely shattered by the horrifically violent atmosphere I grew up in. I am a consequence of violence. That opened a door to many realities that I would not have experienced had I not survived what I did.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Violence
  • Grew Up
  • Survived

• There are certain realities about the world we live in. Syria and Iraq are just not going to get on air every day. For us as journalists, we're still trying to navigate this world. Journalism is changing. How do we tell our stories - especially with the wars that have continued for so long? How do we keep it relevant?

  

  Arwa Damon
  • Stories
  • Journalism
  • Realities

• Narrating incredible things as though they were real old system; narrating realities as though they were incredible the new.

  

  Cesare Pavese
  • Real
  • New
  • Incredible

• There's no eleventh commandment, "Thou shalt commit civil disobedience," There's no eleventh commandment, "Thou shalt not." What you do is you face the realities of the situation, and decide whether what you're doing will help or hurt the goal you set.

  

  Allard K. Lowenstein
  • Goal
  • Situation
  • Realities

• I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Considered
  • Accomplished
  • Realities

• Everyone, both big and small, can pull their weight, and ensure that the hopes and dreams of every child become realities.

  

  Alma Powell
  • Child
  • Dreams
  • Realities

• The thing about getting famous is that, often, the only people who are in a position to be honest with you about the realities of celebrity are the people who will make gobs of money if you go all in. They have no incentive to tell you the dirty truth, which Mr. Skampt attempted to tell me then.

  

  Hank Green
  • People
  • Celebrity
  • Realities

• The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after the death of the vegetated [i.e. mortal] body. This world of imagination is infinite and eternal, whereas the world of generation is finite and temporal. There exist in that eternal world the eternal realities of everything which we see reflected in this vegetable glass of nature.

  

  William Blake
  • Death
  • Imagination
  • Generation

• Surely one of the most visible lessons taught by the twentieth century has been the existence, not so much of a number of different realities, but of a number of different lenses with which to see the same reality.

  

  Michael Arlen
  • Different
  • Existence
  • Twentieth

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