"One will meet, for example, the virtual assumption that what is relative to thought cannot be real. But why not, exactly? Red is relative to sight, but the fact that this or that is in that relation to vision that we call being red is not itself relative to sight; it is a real fact."

-- Charles Sanders Peirce

#Real Quotes #Being Real Quotes #Vision Quotes

“Character + Chance = Success”
“If you want it, become it.”
“Believe me, I understand that most higher rate taxpayers are not the super-rich.”
“If Tolstoy were alive today and working at Panopticon Insurance, he'd say that all insurance companies are the same, then throw himself through an eighteenth story window and plunge to his death in a hail of glass and shattered dignity" (70).”

Source : Paul Neilan (2007). “Apathy and Other Small Victories: A Novel”, p.70, Macmillan
“I think the Israeli people understand now what I always say: that there cannot be a situation, under any agreement, in which we relinquish security control of the territory west of the River Jordan.”
“Useful knowledge, practical kindness, and beneficent laws -- these are not the Gospel; but, like philosophy, they are, or may be, its handmaids. They may make its task smooth and grateful; they may associate themselves with its victories, or they may prepare its way.”
“I wanted to be an empowered woman, and I became an empowered woman. And now I want to empower every woman. And I do it through my clothes, I do it through my words, I do it through my money, I do it through everything.”
“Once a place becomes special, it's no longer special.”

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