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Many in the modern world fell for the myth that we're living in a static, fixed, flat reality of just material things.
Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.
It's time for us all to step up. We've been extremely successful, but to be honest it's a reality check for everybody.
We aren't going to have peace on Earth until we recognize the basic fact of the interrelated structure of all reality.
The photograph suggests that our image of reality is made up of images. It makes explicit the domination of mediation.
Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but thats not reality, its just another aesthetic form of fiction.
What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.
I have an imagination because my life is so boring that my imagination lets me get off the reality of what's going on.
To the extent math refers to reality, we are not certain to the extent we are certain, math does not refer to reality.
I am obsessed with trash TV. I watch all reality shows. I watch all the "Housewives." I am a huge fan of "New Jersey."
George Orwell once wrote that a false belief sooner or later collides with physical reality, usually on a battlefield.
The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.
If the victories we create in our heads were let loose on reality, the world we know would drown in blazing happiness.
The presence of others who see what we see and hear what we hear assures us of the reality of the world and ourselves.
We think there is color, we think there is sweet, we think there is bitter, but in reality there are atoms and a void.
Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.
To rise above the crowd, you must discipline yourself unceasingly to the strict demand and realities of your ambition.
The reality is that these cases are happening all the time. It's when they get out of control that you have a problem.
I watch '60 Minutes' and 'Dateline' and '20/20.' I work in fantasy all day, so when I go home I want to touch reality.
Many of the concepts we once thought belonged to speculation or science fiction are now part of our understood reality.
We can feel sorry for ourselves or we can put the work boots on and understand the situation and the reality of it all.
Poetry affords us a respite in which we may gather renewed strength for the old struggle to adapt ourselves to reality.
What I lacked [in La Nausee] was a sense of reality. I have changed since. I have slowly learned to experience reality.
People look around you, the signs are everywhere. You've left it for somebody other than you to be the one who to care.
When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.
Reality TV is really just based for sensationalism. So, it's extreme versions and extreme caricatures of personalities.
Dreams are reality at its most profound, and what you invent is truth because invention, by its nature, can't be a lie.
Photography is a kind of virtual reality, and it helps if you can create the illusion of being in an interesting world.
Behind every myth lies a truth; beyond every legend is reality, as radiant (sometimes as chilling) as the story itself.
I'm parodied as being some right-wing fundamentalist extremist, it just isn't true. The parody doesn't reflect reality.
Face it: a nation that maintains a 72% approval rating on George W. Bush is a nation with a very loose grip on reality.
Besides being complicated, reality, in my experience, is usually odd. It is not neat, not obvious, not what you expect.
The UN, of course, must also adapt to modern demands and take into account the reality of the modern world in its work.
I'm not going to experience the reality of hardship that sometimes my characters live in. I'm very cautious about that.
Often, to be free means the ability to deal with the realities of one's own situation so as not to be overcome by them.
Language is double-edged; through words a fuller view of reality emerges, but words can also serve to fragment reality.
Your ideas need not have anything to do with reality. Making conclusions is a sure way of not enhancing our perception.
Reality... includes a perceiver, who has memories, thoughts, desires, emotions - [which] a normal camera tends to omit.
Travelers perceptions do not always reflect the reality of a situation, and ignorance is costing the industry billions.
To describe this world is not to describe reality 'in itself', as it is independently of how we regard and describe it.
I read and I read; and I was like a medieval king, I had fallen in love with the picture long before I saw the reality.
Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.
I feel God when I find myself in a situation which spontaneously opens me to the larger reality that exists all around.
I love The West Wing for many reasons. The show has been a fantasy. But we have offered a parallel universe to reality.
Shadows are in reality, when the sun is shining, the most conspicuous thing in a landscape, next to the highest lights.
I think when you come from a reality show, nobody really respects you from the movie industry or from the WWE industry.
Gnostic politics is self-defeating in so far as its disregard for the structure of reality leads to continuous warfare.
Our beliefs are what create our experiences. As we change our beliefs, we alter our perception, our version of reality.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.