Quotes About Actuality

All those young photographers who are at work in the world, determined upon the capture of actuality, do not know that they are agents of Death.

Si así fue, así pudo ser; si así fuera, así podría ser; pero como no es, no es.

The actuality of thought is life.

The fact speak for themselves.

I never go beyond immediate reality. There is nothing beyond immediate reality.

That episode of the imagination we call reality

They were stars on this stage, each playing to an audience of two: the passion of their pretense created the actuality. Here, finally, was the quintessence of self-expression-- yet it was probable that for the most part their love expressed Gloria rather than Anthony. He felt often like a scarecly tolerated guest at a party she was giving.

It's really hard to separate fantasy from reality.

I don't want to live in a fantasy world.

I completely identify with finding freedom in boundaries. That's why I tend to have more freedom when I write nonfiction over fiction: because I'm running up against actuality and beholden to the truth in a different way.

If we ask what poetry is we may say in general that it is a victory over the world; it is through a negation of the imperfect actuality that poetry opens up a higher actuality

As the ironist does not have the new within his power, it might be asked how he destroys the old, and to this it must be answered: he destroys the given actuality by the given actuality itself.

every actual instant of despair is to be referred back to possibility, every instant the man in despair is contracting it, it is constantly in the present tense, nothing comes to pass here as a consequence of a bygone actuality superseded. at every actual instant of despair the despairer bears as his responsibility all the foregoing experience in possibility as a present.

What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.

Nothing is more sacred than the facts.

Change just is the realization of some potentiality; or as Aquinas puts it, "motion is the actuality of a being in potency

There existed no need on Caladan to build a physical paradise or a paradise of the mind—we could see the actuality all around us. And the price we paid was the price men have always paid for achieving a paradise in this life—we went soft, we lost our edge.

But the prophetic instant releases something of infinite portent and power. The universe undergoes a ghostly shift. Thus, the wise prophet conceals actuality behind shimmering labels. The uninitiated then believe the prophetic language is ambiguous. The listener distrusts the prophetic messenger. Instinct tells you how the utterance blunts the power of such words. The best prophets lead you up to the curtain and let you peer through for yourself.

Only that which happens is possible.

I'm interested in the real world.

truth is reality

Madeleine L'Engle

That's what makes reality reality, the fact that it just keeps being true no matter how much you argue with it.

I have indicated, the most fundamental concepts of Aristotelian-Thomistic philosophy of nature (the theory of actuality and potentiality, hylemorphism, and so forth) overlap with those of Aristotelian-Thomistic metaphysics.