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Truth is that which affirms propositionally the nature of reality as it is. -- Ravi Zacharias
Revolutionary art and visionary physics are both investigations into the nature of reality. -- Leonard Shlain
Emotions are not tools of cognition. They tell you nothing about the nature of reality. -- Dave Galanter
Giving and receiving pleasure is the nature of the cosmos, the inner nature of reality. -- Marc Gafni
Metaphysics attempts to discover the ultimate nature of reality, and in this sense, the innerspace of science fiction is metaphysical fiction. -- Kate Wilhelm
The feeling that dreams show us the real nature of reality is something that's shared by many indigenous groups around the world. -- Stanley Krippner
Sometimes nature guards her secrets with the unbreakable grip of physical law. Sometimes the true nature of reality beckons from just beyond the horizon. -- Brian Greene
The Science Delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality in principle leaving only the details to be filled in. -- Rupert Sheldrake
When we recognize that the seemingly object nature of reality is nothing different than the subject nature of mind, which is rigpa, it is called enlightenment. -- Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
Reason as an organ for perceiving the true nature of reality and determining the guiding principles of our lives has come to be regarded as obsolete. -- Max Horkheimer
Monotheism owes its existence not to philosophic speculation about the nature of reality or knowledge or virtue, but to acceptance of reality identified with a supreme being. -- Israel Shenker
The syntactical nature of reality, the real secret of magic, is that the world is made of words. And if you know the words that the world is made of, you can make of it whatever you wish. -- Terence McKenna
The development of physics in the twentieth century already has transformed the consciousness of those involved with it. The study (of modern physics) produces insights into the nature of reality very similar to those produced by the study of eastern philosophy. -- Gary Zukav
I'd love to go back to Europe in the '20s and '30s, for the beginning of the Psychoanalytic Movement, and Freud and Jung, and all that was going on with discoveries in quantum physics. The whole nature of reality was changing and being challenged. -- Michael Sheen
Photography does deal with 'truth' or a kind of superficial reality better than any of the other arts, but it never questions the nature of reality - it simply reproduces reality. And what good is that when the things of real value in life are invisible? -- Duane Michals
I would say that in my scientific and philosophical work, my main concern has been with understanding the nature of reality in general and of consciousness in particular as a coherent whole, which is never static or complete but which is an unending process of movement and unfoldment.... -- David
Scientific reality is the modern human condition, and you can see that in the symbolic nature of my work. -- Thom Mayne
This is the merit and distinction of art: to be more real than reality, to be not nature but nature's essence. -- William Ernest Henley
Our idea of nature is increasingly being determined by scientific developments. And they have become decisive for our image of reality. -- Thom Mayne
Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human nature. -- Wilhelm Dilthey
I believe myself to possess a most singular combination of qualities exactly fitted to make me pre-eminently a discoverer of the hidden realities of nature. -- Ada Lovelace
Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Democratic institutions are based on a reality of human nature: that those with power, however benign or even noble their intentions, will do what they can to keep it. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
I would call myself a Gnostic. Which means, I'm interested in pursuing and understanding the spiritual nature of things. A Gnostic is somebody seeking knowledge of that aspect of reality. -- Robert Crumb
The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it. -- Gustave Courbet
It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures. -- Vincent Van Gogh
Planning to play: that's what saving for retirement is today - and it is antithetical to the nature of play, fully within the definition of work, and blissfully ignorant of the reality of death. -- John Thorn
Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony. -- Noam Chomsky
They should hold themselves absolutely upon the immovable foundation of truth and nature, whereby alone they can save themselves from misapprehensions and from the danger of being entirely carried away from reality into mere dreams and fictions. -- Ethan A. Hitchcock
Magic speaks to the child in all of us. No matter how sophisticated we become, there's still a part of us who wants to believe in an alternative reality, where we can defy the laws of nature. -- Criss Angel
A monkey is unaware that atoms exist. Likewise, our brainpower may not stretch to the deepest aspects of reality. The bedrock nature of space and time, and the structure of our entire universe, may remain 'open frontiers' beyond human grasp. -- Martin Rees
I think it's very dangerous, the idea of celebrity - you have to be constantly controversial to maintain the status of celebrity. Reality TV is the death of entertainment - it's just mindless TV but popular because of its voyeuristic nature, and people are very voyeuristic. -- David Suchet
The reality of any location in Britain being used in a TV program of a film is that something bad is going to happen! That's the nature of drama. Most of the things that get made or basically grisly detective shows about murders, accidents or medical dramas. -- Ben Wheatley
Whether rich or poor, a home is not a home unless the roots of love are ever striking deeper through the crust of the earthly and the conventional, into the very realities of being, not consciously always; seldom, perhaps; the simplicity of loving grows by living simply near nature and God. -- Lucy Larcom
Nature is where the reality happens. -- J.T.Abraham
There is no other reality than nature. -- Marco Casagrande
Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled. -- Richard P. Feynman
...any honest inquiry into the reality of nature also yields insights about ourselves... -- Carl Safina
Reality is obtained not by imitation, but by producing the sense of nature. -- Robert Henri
Appearance should never attain reality, And if nature conquers, then must art retire. -- Friedrich Schiller
Modern reality TV sets up these competitive situations to show us real human nature. -- Alexander Ludwig
Mother Nature comes up against reality, and the reality is that the system doesn't work. -- John Garamendi
An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature. -- Ayn Rand
Our reality is influenced by our notions about reality, regardless of the nature of those notions -- Joseph Chilton Pearce
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. -- Richard P. Feynman
Nothing is in reality either pleasant or unpleasant by nature but all things become so through habit -- Epictetus
The boundary between ourselves and other people and between ourselves and Nature, is illusion. Oneness is reality. -- Charlene Spretnak
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. -- Hannah Arendt
Tragedy had sent me headlong into reality. All the things I had seen before now looked different, even nature. -- Virginia C. Andrews
Imagination alone is not enough, because the reality of nature is far more wondrous than anything we can imagine -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
You shouldn't be afraid of science. Accepting the reality of nature makes life more exciting and even more precious. -- Lawrence M. Krauss
The Divine realm extends to the earthly; but the later, illusory in nature, does not contain the essence of Reality. -- Mahavatar Babaji
That's exactly why nature always trumps gardens. Gardens are just reality pruned of chaos. What doesn't work you rip out. -- Justina Chen
our present picture of physical reality, particularly in relation to the nature of time, is due for a grand shake up -- Roger Penrose
You have not known even a fragment of My reality. The full nature of this reality can never be understood by anyone. -- Sathya Sai Baba
affectation is fond of making a greater show than reality. ... Nature and truth have never learned to blow the trumpet, and never will. -- Lydia M. Child
Most people that work in [show] business, if they're not gypsies by nature, become gypsies, just because of the reality of this business. -- Charlie Hunnam
A whole new series of technologies like biotechnology, virtual reality, and super-computerization are appearing now that are leading us away from our nature-based roots. -- Chellis Glendinning
Metagapism is the belief that love is the ultimate reality, literally god and the one shared soul, and the source, nature and destiny of all. -- John K. Brown
We fail to reckon with the reality of human nature. By nature,we are egocentric. Our world revolves around us. None of us is totally altruistic. -- Gary Chapman
The reality is that every time we manipulate nature's rhythms, we create unintended consequences that then require us to make still further changes."~ Glenn Aparicio Parry -- Glenn Aparicio Parry
You and I are the force for transformation in the world. We are the consciousness that will define the nature of the reality we are moving into. -- Ram Dass
Deep within ourselves, we find the inner being, the inner source of love, which is our true nature. Love is the only reality, because only love works. -- Swami Dhyan Giten
Nature learns and changes as a result of stimuli, and certain habitats of nature will be formed that weren't there before. That's how I look at reality. -- David Wolfe
Animism is a monist metaphysical stance, based upon the idea that mind and matter are not distinct and separate substances but an integrated reality, rooted in nature. -- Emma Restall Orr
To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease to substitute a phantom for reality. -- Virginia Woolf
To assume that wealth or sexuality or the usage of power, any of these things are not void in nature, gives them a reality they don't actually have. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
For centuries the word 'nature' has been used to bolster prejudices or to express, not reality, but a state of affairs that the user would wish to see. -- Eva Figes
The art of seeing nature, or, in other words, the art of using models, is in reality the great object, the point to which all our studies are directed. -- Joshua Reynolds
Whatever conclusions we reach about the reality of God, the history of this idea must tell us something important about the human mind and the nature of our aspiration. -- Karen Armstrong
There are two different conceptions about the nature of the universe: (1) the world as a unity dependent on humanity; (2) the world as a reality independent of the human factor. -- Albert Einstein
The crude product of nature, the object fashioned by the industry of man, acquire their reality, their identity, only to the extent of their participation in a transcendent reality. -- Mircea Eliade

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