Quotes About Reality

Si la simpatía de los amigos no altera los hechos, por lo menos los hace más soportables.

To know you are safe is to know you create your reality. Feeling safe does not mean to 'not feel vulnerable' - quite the opposite. To truly feel safe is to freely allow the feeling of vulnerability. This is to know that vulnerability is not a problem to be solved; vulnerability is a state of expansion – a state of growth. To realize this is to rejoice in the discovery and feeling of vulnerability.

Few are naive enough to really believe what they say, but the palace of lies is a comfortable mansion with many rooms.

He is free to evade reality, he is free to unfocus his mind and stumble blindly down any road he pleases, but not free to avoid the abyss he refuses to see. —Ayn Rand1

From denials of child molesting and sexual harassment to the overwhelming science of global warming, an element of American conservatism has grown over decades in an environment distinct from the rest of the country (and reality), nurtured by an ever-growing ecosphere of alternative truth.

All indications are overwhelmingly yes. 5 MACHINERY OF DECEPTION He is free to evade reality, he is free to unfocus his mind and stumble blindly down any road he pleases, but not free to avoid the abyss he refuses to see. —Ayn Rand1 Years

The base price of admission is a willingness to accept that an unstable, pathological liar leads it and pretend otherwise.

Politics was always centrally about identity and belonging and meaning, but in the decades following World War II, democracy operated within constraints with regard to a shared set of institutional statements about reality.

Does a society live in a shared reality?

In a civil society like the United States, that shared reality, that truth, is the core energy that drives the functioning of society.

Stuart Stevens

The dystopian Shangri-La that so many on the right inhabit was years in the making. If it often seems that the Republican Party is living in a world disconnected from reality, that's because it is. Large elements of the Republican Party have made a collective decision that there is no objective truth.

For Republicans, that "home" invariably meant a gauzy view of an idealized America somewhere in the 1950s that never existed.

In reality, the Republican Party isn't serious about deficit reduction, because politicians know their voters don't feel affected by the mind-boggling numbers and subsequently don't really care.

The simple reality is that the Republican Party was in business with Russian intelligence efforts, what used to be known as the KGB, and precious few leading the Republican Party seem to give a damn.

Conspiracies are dominant realities in the world Trump and his followers inhabit.

I did not think them perfect; no man may be a hero to his valet or political consultant.

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.

Most people are distrustful of others who present themselves as one thing, then turn out to be another. I find it more useful to let them make their presumptions, then follow their preconceived notions.

Only then did I realise that for me, and many others, Israel was virtual. For Murad, Israel was 'home.' Israel was a reality; a harsh reality.

You can't believe everything you hear. Sometimes, you can't even believe your eyes.

The problem with real life is there's no musical score. In movies, you know you're in danger because there's an ominous chord underlining the scene, a dissonant melodic line that warns of sharks in the water and boogeymen behind the door. Real life is dead quiet, so you're never quite sure if there's trouble coming up.

I'm always aware that under the spritely twitter of birds, bones are being crunched and ribbons of flesh are being stripped away, all of it the work of bright-eyed creatures without feeling or conscience. I don't look to nature for comfort or serenity.

The problem with real life is there's no musical score. In movies, you know you're in danger because there's an ominous chord underlining the scene