"We ourselves are not an illusory part of Reality; rather are we Reality itself illusorily conceived."

-- Wei Wu Wei

#Reality Quotes

“Then there is a still higher type of courage - the courage to brave pain, to live with it, to never let others know of it and to still find joy in life; to wake up in the morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead.”

Source : Howard Cosell (1974). “Like it is”
“Love without conversation is impossible.”
“My gratitude to them [my first teachers] grows as I myself grow older.”

Source : "A History of Science". Book by George Sarton. Volume 2: "Hellenistic Science and Culture in the Last Three Centuries B.C.", Preface, 1959.
“You can laugh of everything, but not with everybody.”
“Once we affirm the goal of trying to make sure that you don't have jihadis infiltrating terrorist flows, we need to make sure we're doing it in a thoughtful way that's thinking about the 10 and 15 and 20 years long battle we're going to have against jihadists.”

Source : Source: abcnews.go.com
“I have an abiding interest in how ordinary people produce knowledge, and what it means for individuals to know the world. I thought I'd be a theoretical physicist because I love physicists' views of the world - I find general relativity and quantum theory thrilling - but I have always felt uneasy with the idea of an Ultimate Truth. One of the functions of science is to help us instrumentally; it helps us to build things like microchips and GPS satellites. But another function of science in the modern world is to help us feel "at home in the universe".”
“The Bowery station on the J line is what happens to a neighborhood once politicians realize the people who live there don't vote.”

Source : Andrew Vachss (2008). “Terminal: A Burke Novel”, p.21, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
“The difference between resemblance nominalism and class nominalism is that the former, but not the latter, brings in resemblance to account for the truthmakers of the propositions in question.”

Source : "Truthmaking". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. September 7, 2012.

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