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- Nov 07, 2020
Reality Quotes
What's real depends on where you're standing.
This set weighs reality against illusion, touching on digital-age facts that can't be hidden, the difference between a screen character and the actor playing tough, and why escapist fantasy still appeals. For adjacent emotional ground, see our Pain quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human nature.
- Certitude
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the other hand, for the whole human being who wills, feels, and represents, external reality is given simultaneously and with as much certitude as his own self.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
The sciences which take socio-historical reality as their subject matter are seeking, more intensively than ever before, their systematic relations to one another and to their foundation.
- Extraordinarily
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a prophet; I can only use historical reality to come to a view of the future, and my view is that Africa will return to being African and not European. The advent of colonialism was foreign to the country itself, but it will return to what it was before the Europeans arrived.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the game of politics, both parties are sometimes guilty of passing really stupid laws that, in reality, are purely symbolic and have no real impact on anyone.
- Comedy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Paranormal reality shows are some of the best unintentional comedy in the history of recorded entertainment.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that the people who are trying to shut down WikiLeaks are going to have to accept this as a fact of reality that cryptography allows you to do this kind of thing.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
A reflection of an exact image is the closest thing to you-so that you can see it-but it's far enough away so that you really understand it. There is real life in this movie, but it hovers just an inch above reality.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love the ultimate escapism of paranormal and fantasy - all of the otherworldly creatures, magic, and possibilities that transport both reader and writer away from reality for a while - it's such delicious fun!
- Prison
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- Nov 07, 2020
My character in 'Prison Break' needs to be formidable. In reality, I'm not very tough at all.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
Until we address the pervasive structural and interpersonal threats facing communities of color, we will remain unequipped to make equity a reality.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reality, for me at least, is that the finest recreation of a paper game, played on computer, pales in comparison with the actual, face-to-face experience.
- Self-Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
- Nov 07, 2020
We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020