Real Quotes - Page 738

We shall maintain that no statement which refers to a 'reality'transcending the limits of all possible sense- experience can possibly have any literal significance.

There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.

We've spent now about 150 years trying to convince ourselves that photographs are reliable evidence, some unimpeachable slice of the real world. That was a myth from the very beginning.

I think the best comedic actors don't play it for comedy, they play it for reality. Then you find it funny because it's real. Playing the genre is the worst thing you can do - it's embarrassing.

Nothing's real unless you want it to be, and anything can be real if you want it to enough; so real doesn't really mean anything.

Only fools imagine they are already awake. How clearly they understand everything! How easily they distinguish this deception from that reality!

Without Ukraine, Russia's imperial aspirations are essentially nostalgia, but it's not a real policy.

A real capitalist knows that $10 given today does a lot more good than $100 given 10 years from now.

You have a whole life in the outdoors, you realize you have a sense of responsibility to protect these wild places.

My goal in politics from the very beginning has been, and will be, the goal of giving Ukraine a chance to finally secure a firm footing in the world as a competitive, independent and real European state.

I really got consumed with the idea of how people who are deemed crazy or insane often have a firmer grasp on reality than normal people. The average person goes through life thinking it will go on forever.

Mixtapes, it's for everyone and you throw them in the trash quickly. While an album is an object that only your real fans take the trouble to buy and know you have prepared something special.

If you put a song on SoundCloud for free and it blows up, you'll drop it as a single and maybe get some change off of it, but the real fans are going to be those that come to the shows.

When you burn the chair, you suddenly realize that the chair in your mind did not burn or disappear

I think the three years have demonstrated how little this argument has to do with reality.

A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death.

Imagination, realm of enchantment!- which the most beneficent of beings bestowed upon man to console him for reality- I must quit you now.

New Orleans - the real New Orleans - is the soul of the country.

Because I now realize, after all this time, I have never truly felt worthy of all that I have been given.

That’s one of the nice things about writing, or any art; if the thing’s real, it just lives. All the attendant hoopla about it, the success over it or the critical rejection—none of that really matters. In the end, the thing will survive or not on its own merits. Not that immortality via art is any big deal. Truffaut died, and we all felt awful about it, and there were the appropriate eulogies, and his wonderful films live on. But it’s not much help to Truffaut.

Cynicism is reality with an alternate spelling.

The one who cannot see that on Earth a big endeavor is taking place, an important plan, on which realization we are allowed to collaborate as faithful servants, certainly has to be blind.

Delight in smooth sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts ... genuine love of peace and pathetic belief that love can be its sole foundation ... the utter devotion of the Liberals to sentiment apart from reality ...though free from wickedness or evil design, played a definite part in the unleashing upon the world of horrors and miseries [WWII]

Nourish your hopes, but do not overlook realities.

The real secret to freedom seems to lie in the ability to deal with ambiguity, the capacity to tolerate noise and yet hear within its wild randomizing abandon the possibilities of innovation and transformations.