Quotes About Reality

The point in all this is that language is a handy whipping boy to summon and belabor when we have failed in some serious way. In other words, we play politics with language, and in so doing conceal the reality and the complexity of our situation from ourselves and from those foolish enough to put their trust in us.

Looking at a king's mouth, one would think he never sucked at his mother's breast.

Things are always like that. Our eye sees something; we take a stone and aim at it. But the stone rarely succeeds like the eye in hitting the mark.

Understanding the role of God's protection will not help us very much if we don't first understand exactly why we need it. If your eyes are not yet open to the behind-the-scenes context of our new life in Christ—if you are still skeptical about the whole business—prepare to be jolted by the reality of the conflict raging around you.

I dont want to die Then you shouldnt have been born

But when you're depressed, you think baloney is filet mignon. You score it, marinate it, and slap it on the grill. But when you finally bite into it, reality sets in (or is it heartburn?) and you realize it ain't steak---it's baloney.

In a Google world, meaning and ontology are entirely in the eyes and minds of the beholder. One thing can be many different things to many different people.

Otro aspecto esencial del código abierto es que los usuarios pueden fabricar los productos por sí mismos, si quieren; no necesitan pagar por ello. Lo cual es magnífico para el 0,1 por ciento del usuario básico, que muchas veces es la mejor fuente de ideas e innovaciones en torno al producto. Pero la realidad es que el otro 99,9 por ciento de usuarios más bien pagarían para que alguien se los fabricase si les garantizan que funcionarán. Éste es el

The plain unvarnished reality that we cannot escape who we are and most of the time we die as we lived.

Don't judge me. I mean that. You have a great husband and two sweet kids—" "They're sixteen and thirteen. They stopped being sweet years ago

normalcy bias. We suppose the world will continue to spin the way it always has. We tell ourselves that what we are seeing isn't, in fact, the cataclysm that it is.

research has shown that we have a remarkable ability to think and feel our way into happier or more depressed states, regardless of external reality, and you can train yourself to live in either an optimistic or a pessimistic frame of mind regardless of your external circumstances.

Old age teaches you in a very unkind way that things won't necessarily get better. Not in this life. In fact, you can pretty much count on things degenerating. Being content is not a lack of ambition. It's being able to rest and relax and know that your worth doesn't come from what others think of you or even what you think of you.

There're some things that can't be helped. They just are. You either live with them or you don't. Simple as that. There's nothing simple about it. You got that right. You certainly got that right.

We live in imaginary, virtual worlds created by corporations that profit from our deception.

People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster. —JAMES BALDWIN

After years on a drunken bender, Americans are awakening to lies masked in patriotism and glory.

All you have to do is work hard, obey the rules, and believe in yourself. This myth is disseminated across the political spectrum. It is the essential message peddled by everyone from Oprah and the entertainment industry to the Christian Right and positive psychologists. But this promise, as the masses of underemployed and unemployed are discovering, is a fiction.16

the portrayal of reality in the state-controlled press and popular entertainment is harmonious and pleasant. Justice, in the narratives approved for public consumption, is always served. Goodness always triumphs. Goals are always attained. This dichotomy, although not on the level of Stalin's Soviet Union or Hitler's Nazi Germany, is nevertheless present in American culture and getting worse. The gap between who we are and who we think we are is steadily expanding.

Real life, our own life, is viewed next to the lives of celebrities as inadequate and inauthentic.

Those who slip into this illusion ignore the signs of impending disaster. The physical degradation of the planet, the cruelty of global capitalism, the looming oil crisis, the collapse of financial markets, and the danger of overpopulation rarely impinge to prick the illusions that warp our consciousness,.

The vast distance between perceived reality and the official version of reality is characteristic of totalitarian systems. The state abolishes liberty and rights while claiming to uphold and defend them.

When a nation becomes unmoored from reality, it retreats into a world of magic. Facts are accepted or discarded according to the dictates of a preordained cosmology. The search for truth becomes irrelevant.

A public that can no longer distinguish between truth and fiction is left to interpret reality through illusion.