"In the American Metaphysical, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant."

-- Lionel Trilling

#Reality Quotes #Metaphysical Quotes #Materials Quotes

“Instead of trying to educate the human race, they should imitate the pedagogues of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, who concentrated their efforts on the education of a single person.”
“The night I announced I was getting married, Daddy paced for hours on the porch.”
“What is it about this ideological dream of the right to bear arms that overrides any other rights, I mean the rights to not have your children killed at school?”

Source : "Piers Morgan Live", transcripts.cnn.com. February 27, 2012.
“By the way, there is nothing cute about a pink wheelchair. Pink doesn't change a thing.”

Source : Sharon M. Draper (2012). “Out of My Mind”, p.3, Simon and Schuster
“The body has many needs. But the soul has only one: to be with God.”
“Faith and initiative rightly combined, remove mountains, barriers and achieve the unheard of and the miraculous.”
“Death fixes forever the relation existing between the departed spirit and the survivors upon earth.”
“At that [childhood] time, of course, if you were involved in art, it was going to be drawing and painting, because that's the only thing that was taught in the schools.”

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