Reality

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  • Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.
        Cicero   Best?
  • If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. . . . The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.
        Rudyard Kipling   Best?
  • Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than minority of them - never become conscious of them all. How much of total reality can such an apparatus let through?
        C. S. Lewis   Best?
  • There is not enough religion in the world to destroy the world's religions.
        Frederich Nietzsche   Best?
  • He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool.
        Soren Kierkegaard   Best?
  • In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
        Frederich Nietzsche   Best?
  • Gold is worse poison to a man's soul, doing more murders in this loathsome world, than any mortal drug.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
  • Let the world go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage, and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today, at home and around the world!
        John F. Kennedy   Best?
  • The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going.
        Unknown   Best?
  • The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt.
        Helen Keller   Best?
  • Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
        Eleanor Roosevelt   Best?
  • "Reality" is the only word in the English language that should always be used in quotes.
        Unknown   Best?
  • The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
        Harry Emerson Fosdick   Best?
  • How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
        Anne Frank   Best?
  • With Epcot Center the Disney corporation has accomplished something I didn't think possible in today's world. They have created a land of make-believe that's worse than regular life.
        P. J. O'Rourke   Best?
  • The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  • Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else.
        Will Rogers   Best?
  • Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
        Jules de Gaultier   Best?
  • A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over lousy fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average of the world's great civilizations before they decline has been 200 years. These nations have progressed in this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; from faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to Complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependency; from dependency back again to bondage.
        Alexander Fraser Tyler   Best?
  • I'd rather be black than gay because when you're black you don't have to tell your mother.
        Charles Pierce   Best?
  • ...one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  • Greatness is great power, producing great effects. It is not enough that a man has great power in himself, he must shew it to all the world in a way that cannot be hid or gainsaid.
        William Hazlitt   Best?
  • Mental health increases as we pursue reality at all cost.
        M. Scott Peck   Best?
  • There is a wide world out there, my friend, full of pain, but filled with joy as well. The former keeps you on the path of growth, and the latter makes the journey tolerable.
        R. A. Salvatore   Best?
  • We are here to change the world with small acts of thoughtfulness done daily rather than with one great breakthrough.
        Rabbi Harold Kushner   Best?
  • I think the prime reason for existence, for living in this world, is discovery.
        James Dean   Best?
  • They say that Heaven is like TV... a perfect little world, that doesn't really need you.
        Laurie Anderson   Best?
  • The will to excel and the will to win, they endure. They are more important than any events that occasion them.
        Vince Lombardi   Best?
  • There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.
        Napoleon Bonaparte   Best?
  • I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?
        Terry Pratchett   Best?
  • A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
        Carl Sandburg   Best?
  • The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.
        Ernest Hemingway   Best?
  • Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
        Karl Marx   Best?
  • A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
        Salman Rushdie   Best?
  • Take something you love, tell people about it, bring together people who share your love and help make it better. Ultimately, you'll have more of whatever you love for yourself and for the world.
        Julius Schwartz   Best?
  • Nothing in all the world is so nonsensical and contradictory, save mortals, that is, who live in the grip of the superstitions of the past.
        Anne Rice   Best?
  • The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people--that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.
        James Thurber   Best?
  • The most important principle of divine philosophy is the oneness of the world of humanity, the unity of mankind, the bond conjoining East and West, the tie of love which blends human hearts.
        Abdul Baha   Best?
  • He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
  • The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
        Augustine   Best?

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