Reality Quotes - Page 366

Metaphysics is the study of the most general nature and basic structure of reality, and therefore the concepts of metaphysics, concepts like time, space, identity, resemblance, substance, property, fact, event, composition, possibility, etc., are the most fundamental concepts. Thus metaphysics is the most fundamental theoretical discipline.

I think as artists we have an opportunity to shed light and share different stories and expose different realities and inspire people and give a different perspective.

Everyone has dreams. But it is what you do with these dreams that is important. Dreams, once you make the decision to act on them can become reality.

A myth is more powerful - and more lasting - than reality.

There are certain realities we must speak of with our children that were not present when I was a child.

Of all the views that are detached from reality, the most delusional is that Christians are persecuted in the U.S.

If you are strong enough as a couple, reality shows can be a good thing for the relationship.

One person's dream is another's reality.

[The photograph is] still a space to reorganize our thoughts about reality and our place in the world. How do you disentangle the surface of reality?

Even before I started photography, I began to see that there was a disjunction between available languages and reality.

All I do know, for certain, after 53 years in this business, is that writers who sincerely think that their language can represent reality ought to be plumbers.

Men reform a thing by removing the reality from it, and then do not know what to do with the unreality that is left.

There definitely is exposure in reality shows, but the exposure will basically get you more reality shows.

Reality TV has totally destroyed soap operas. They're gone. They used to be the biggest thing in the world - they're gone.

We have developed this capability. The heavy-water project today is a reality. This knowledge belongs to Iran. Nobody can take it from us. As they (Europeans) see Iran's determination, they will be forced to show flexibility and accept it.

Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the Reality and interested in telling about it.

This life is made to change all reality. We are here for the benefit, happiness, and welfare of a new reality; a new direction.

It's been a long time coming but the reality is that this process is at a crossroads.

There's always going to be that pressure when you're in front of the camera. When you're famous it's just an extreme version of reality and there's a pressure to look a certain way.

I believe I am looking for rightness. My work has so much to do with reality that I wanted to have a corresponding rightness. That excludes painting in imitation. In nature everything is always right: the structure is right, the proportions are good, the colours fit the forms. If you imitate that in painting, it becomes false.

I've come to realize that I'm a image maker, not an object maker. Images come to me as photographs because I don't have any other way of express them. I have to translate everything into still or moving pictures. I've learned that reality is not important to me. In the end it is the representation of reality that I'm striving to capture.

But he was not kidnapped. ... It's in his imagination. He creates his own world and he believes it is reality.

While I love to read contemporary fiction, I'm not drawn to writing it. Perhaps it's because the former journalist in me is too inhibited by the press of reality; when I think about writing of my own time I always think about nonfiction narratives. Or perhaps it's just that I find the present too confounding.

Government exists to create and preserve conditions in which people can translate their ideas into practical reality. In the best of times, much is lost in translation. But we try.

Reality TV rots people's brains.