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Quotes About Reality

Güç, hiçbir zaman göründüÄŸü yerde deÄŸildir.
~ John Taylor Gatto
The myth of a golden age of public schooling is the creation of Ell-wood P. Cubberley, Dean of Teacher Education at Stanford University. There never was such a thing.
~ John Taylor Gatto
The four most dangerous words in investing are: "this time it's different."
~ John Templeton
Delusion about history is a serious matter; it can gravely affect the history that is waiting to be made.
~ John Terraine
Planning to play: that's what saving for retirement is today - and it is antithetical to the nature of play, fully within the definition of work, and blissfully ignorant of the reality of death.
~ John Thorn
Human beings have an almost unlimited capacity for self-delusion. We can justify any amount of sadness if it fits our own particular standard of reality.
~ John Twelve Hawks
In reality, the universe is neutral about our existence. Only dogs care.
~ John Twelve Hawks
Religion, history, and philosophy are just fictions we've invented to explain our meaningless world.
~ John Twelve Hawks
Thomas Slater says that modern authority is based on a system of lies that are accepted by the general population. If you pull away the curtain and show the reality of power, people are motivated to question the fictions that govern their own lives.
~ John Twelve Hawks
The Grid still exists even if you don't see the lines
~ John Twelve Hawks
The brightest flashes in the world of thought are incomplete until they have been proved to have their counterparts in the world of fact.
~ John Tyndall
The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.
~ John Updike
Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings.
~ John Updike
a good story was frequently superior to the truth?
~ John Varley
You've seen the razzle-dazzle; here's the bitter reality.
~ John Varley
But I don't believe in heroes anymore. I just believe in people coping with their lives as best they can. You do what you have to do, and in some ways you have no more choice about it than a rock has about falling from a high place.
~ John Varley
If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.
~ John von Neumann
Se la gente non crede che la matematica è semplice, è solo perché non capisce quanto è complicata la vita.
~ John von Neumann
Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.
~ John W. Gardner
We've been a universal power for so long, I struggle to accept a reality where we are not. Humanity lost a lot more than a planet and a bunch of ships. We lost our standing, our reputation, our strength in the eyes of the others.
~ John Walker
Love the optimism, doubt the reality.
~ John Walker
About 20 per cent of the population believe themselves to have a food allergy and only about five per cent actually do.
~ John Warner
Well, there are some things a man just can't run away from.
~ John Wayne
Are you going to believe what you see or what I tell you?
~ John Wayne in McClintock