Reality Quotes - Page 17

The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.

We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.

Let's just say I was testing the bounds of reality...

Confused by thoughts, we experience duality in life. Unencumbered by ideas, the enlightened see the one Reality.

If one person dreams alone... It is only a dream. When many people dream together... It is the beginning of a new reality.

The boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion

Homemaking is surely in reality the most important work in the world.

The ultimate tyranny in a society is not control by martial law. It is control by the psychological manipulation of consciousness, through which reality is defined so that those who exist within it do not even realize that they are in prison. They do not even realize that there is something outside of where they exist.

To achieve contact with reality is not to transport oneself elsewhere, it is not transcendence but thorough immersion in one's surroundings. A reality which is neither purely physical nor metaphysical, but both at once.

As birds' wings beat the solid air without which none could fly so words freed by the imagination affirm reality by their flight.

Perfection never exists in reality, but only in our dreams.

Skin has become inadequate in interfacing with reality. Technology has become the body's new membrane of existence.

When we begin to glimpse the reality of God, the natural reaction is to worship him. Not to have that reaction is a fairly sure sign that we haven't yet really understood who he is or what he's done.

You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.

True transformation occurs only when we can look at ourselves squarely and face our attachments and inner demons, free from the buzz of commercial distraction and false social realities. We have to retreat into our own cocoons and come face-to-face with who we are. We have to turn toward our own inner darkness. For only by abandoning its attachments and facing the darkness does the caterpillar's body begin to spread out and its light, beautiful wings begin to form.

Children are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment.

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Reality is for people that lack imagination.

Achievement requires more than a vision - it takes courage, resolve and tenacity. All you have got to do is plant that seed in your mind, care for it, work steadily toward your goal, and it will become a reality

Life is like jury duty. Just do it and get it over with.

Christianity doesn’t deny the reality of suffering and evil… Our hope… is not based on the idea that we are going to be free of pain and suffering. Rather, it is based on the conviction that we will triumph over suffering.

People often criticize my films for being pessimistic; there are certainly many reasons for being pessimistic but I don’t see my films that way. They’re founded in the belief that revolution doesn’t belong on the cinema screen but outside in the world. Never mind if a film ends pessimistically but exposes certain mechanisms clearly enough to show people how they work and the ultimate effect is not pessimistic. My goal is to reveal such mechanisms in a way that makes people realize the necessity of changing their own reality.

Untouchability is a terrible reality.

Skill alone cannot teach or produce a great short story, which condenses the obsession of the creature; it is a hallucinatory presence manifest from the first sentence to fascinate the reader, to make him lose contact with the dull reality that surrounds him, submerging him in another that is more intense and compelling.