Quotes About Realism

Warum wimmelt es nicht von Büchern, die Hohn und Spott über diese jämmerliche Welt, das sinnlose All, die gewalttätige, niederträchtige Menschheit ausgießen und die ganzen lumpigen Zustände der Lächerlichkeit preisgeben? Merkwürdig, Millionen von Menschen sterben jedes Jahr mit diesen Gefühlen im Herzen. Weshalb schreibe ich nicht so ein Buch? Weil ich eine Familie zu ernähren habe. Deshalb.

The reader must not imagine that he is to find in it wisdom, brilliancy, fertility of invention, ingenuity of construction, excellence of form, purity of style, perfection of imagery, truth to nature, clearness of statement, humanly possible situations, humanly possible people, fluent narrative, connected sequence of events

There is no way of accounting for people. You have to take them as they are.

Without writers fooling themselves about what their books might accomplish there would be no books at all.

King nos pedía que creyéramos en la posibilidad de que se produjeran pequeños actos cotidianos de fraternidad, no en un mundo perfecto. Lo real se vuelve así bello y a eso es a lo que se adhiere la esperanza. El utopismo es un precursor de la desesperanza; por ello, la fe y la esperanza necesitan encontrar belleza en lo cercano.

You may have noticed that when I do manage to care, I'm a pessimist.

Your such a cynic. Exactly, thats what you call a guy who tells you the truth.

But maybe 'the brutality of fact' isn't a phrase that precisely suits what he does. Perhaps, 'the awkwardness of truth' would be nearer the mark. …

Not ordinarily do men achieve this balance of opposites. The idealists are not usually realistic, and the realists are not usually idealistic. The militant are not generally known to be passive, nor the passive to be militant. Seldom are the humble self-assertive, or the self assertive humble. ...truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis that reconciles the two.

This is reality, not a dream.

Youthful dreams are precious things. They ought not to be dashed as foolish and unrealistic just because they are young dreams. Innocence ought not to be destroyed from any callous conviction that a realistic sort of cynicism is better.

It's less a matter of looking the other way than of closing our eyes to what we can't stop from happening.

I don't think I really invented anybody. I have drawn on real life.

The schoolmen peer with dulled eyes from amid the heap of precedents and prescriptions about them, and, distracted by seeing a thing sanctioned neither by precedent nor by prescription, dub the man realist, and rail against him for that his work fits none of their pigeon-holes.

It's odd how those who dismiss the peace movement as Utopian proffer the most absurdly dreamy reasons for war.

No matter your spiritual beliefs, if you hold any, the answer is the same: sometimes, why is not knowable. If you open the refrigerator door and a tub of Kozy Shack tapioca pudding tumbles out and splats open onto the floor, you clean it. You don't stand there and question why it happened, how it was possible. Why doesn't matter now.

At a time like this, we can't afford the luxury of thinking!

Avoid Believing Things Are Better Than They Really Are When You Are On A Peak, Or Worse Than They Really Are When You Are In A Valley. Make Reality Your Friend.

What hasn't been achieved by now will never be; and one has to reconcile oneself to this fact, quietly, fearlessly, and, if possible, without despair.

people, with their faults and ambiguities and weaknesses, and plumbing.

The naive view of reality therefore is not compatible with modern physics. To deal with such paradoxes we shall adopt an approach that we call model-dependent realism. It is based on the idea that our brains interpret the input from our sensory organs by making a model of the world. When such a model is successful at explaining events, we tend to attribute to it, and to the elements and concepts that constitute it, the quality of reality or absolute truth.

Though realism may be a tempting viewpoint, as we'll see later, what we know about modern physics makes it a difficult one to defend.

People who call themselves realists are often the biggest optimists of all.

Most people are optimists, although they may claim they are not. People who call themselves realists are often the biggest optimists of all.