Quotes About Reality

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All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.

Why spend our time searching to feel reality, when it's the times that don't feel real that we remember forever?

Every attempt to fix eternity is an escape from reality. I will be plaguing my days with moments and minutes. For ever is too far!

We distance ourselves for protection, Wear scarves when it's cold. What seems most outlandish in our autobiography Is what really happened.

In daily life, reality gives us material incentives to restrain our irrationality. But what incentive do we have to think rationally about politics?

Like Aristotle, conservatives generally accept the world as it is; they distrust the politics of abstract reason – that is, reason divorced from experience.

We must consult our means rather than our wishes.

Conservatism is the politics of reality

In politics, manipulating reality can take presidence over finding reality.

The problem is, of course, that not only is economics bankrupt but it has always been nothing more than politics in disguise ... economics is a form of brain damage.

It is truly a triumph of rhetoric over reality when people can believe that going into politics is 'public service,' but that producing food, shelter, transportation, or medical care is not.

Politics, as hopeful men practise it in the world, consists mainly of the delusion that a change in form is a change in substance.

In politics, what appears is.

The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.

What counted was not the facts but the fears.

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

By repetition, each lie becomes an irreversible fact upon which other lies are constructed.

The so-called Real World. Human misery and sadness. Blind politics and general cruelty.

One of the reasons that politics lets us down is that we keep comparing it to our ideal narratives, to politics on TV or in the movies, which is tidier and better fits such structures.

When politicians deny anything fiercely, there is a good chance that it will happen.

The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.

Gnostic politics is self-defeating in so far as its disregard for the structure of reality leads to continuous warfare.

There are times when American politics seems like little more than two groups in a fever to prevent each other from trespassing upon their respective soothing versions of unreality