Real Quotes - Page 383

Besides the respect of the lives of human beings, all the animals and plants should be on the list too. That is the real humanitarianism.

Nonsense is that which does not fit into the prearranged patterns which we have superimposed on reality...Nonsense is nonsense only when we have not yet found that point of view from which it makes sense.

Task switching exacts a cost few realize they are even paying.

We fail to reckon with the reality of human nature. By nature,we are egocentric. Our world revolves around us. None of us is totally altruistic.

Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye, and deny it.

There are two things a real man likes - danger and play; and he likes woman because she is the most dangerous of play things.

Reality is captured in the categorical nets of Language only at the expense of fatal distortion.

People think they have taken quite an extraordinarily bold step forward when they have rid themselves of belief in hereditary monarchy and swear by the democratic republic. In reality, however, the state is nothing but a machine for the oppression of one class by another, and indeed in the democratic republic no less than in the monarchy.

Self-realization is liberation. Liberation is self-realization.

True religion is the realization of truth.

The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning.

I have a split - of my real home-life side that's real-life, and then the creative side that is not necessarily real-life, but it intersects my real-life so much.

Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and has powers of reality.

The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acpuire it.

The photographer and the director are where reality and fantasy meet.

It's not like you're closing the old doors and that investigators working away in a laboratories on a unique hypothesis are no longer needed. My gosh, they are indeed. But this becomes a real engine for hypothesis generation and even for proof if you have interventions that you can carry out in this kind of large scale and conduct them in a rigorous way. I guess, yeah, it's different. But it's different in a good way.

It's not demons (who at least have a human face) but Hell itself that seems to be laughing inside me, it's the croaking madness of the dead universe, the spinning cadaver of physical space, the end of all worlds blowing blackly in the wind, formless and timeless, without a God who created it, without even its own self, impossibly whirling in the absolute darkness as the one and only reality, everything.

Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.

I realize that, while often happy and often cheerful, I am always sad.

The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.

In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.

If you listen to the political discourse in America today, you would think that all our problems have been caused by the Mexicans of the Chinese or the Muslims. The reality is that we have caused our own problems. Whatever has happened has been caused by isolating ourselves or blaming others.

I can mourn internally, just be quiet about it. I have my moments but I'm not a real, expressive person, especially when it comes to like sadness.

I'm just looking for that moment to drop my Jedi knickers and pull out my real light saber.

The theater has fallen into the hands of real estate men and syndicates and those who have no love or interest in the stage or its life, but who have considered it principally as a means to make money.