Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.
We have demythologized prematurely, that we've actually lost the vocabulary for discussing reality at its largest scales. The idea that myth is the opposite of knowledge, or the opposite of truth, is simply to disallow it. It is like saying poetry is the opposite of truth.
In recent times, more and more human thinking has come to assume that the idea of a universal natural law and the idea of 'God' are pointing to one and the same reality.
We don't want people to have expectations of us, but then we have expectations of everybody else.
The Prohibition era is so vividly depicted in Lawless. John Hillcoat does a remarkable job of rooting his film in such a tangible reality.
Words don't come easily, like forgive me.
To revolutionaries the significant reality is the world which they are fighting to bring about, not the world they are fighting to overcome.
All creative work has its greatest reality while it is still in a man's mind, before he begins to execute it.
The overarching factor to me is if we can't be kind to each other, we won't be kind to the planet.
Your opinion of yourself becomes your reality. If you have all these doubts, then no one will believe in you and everything will go wrong. If you think the opposite, the opposite will happen. It’s that simple.
One of the reasons I've gotten so attached to talking to scientists is that. . . they know there is a reality.
All are called to be what in the reality of God they already are.
There is no reality on this earth except religion and the power of love; all the rest is even more fugitive than life itself.
In societies where modern conditions of productions prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into representation. The images detached from every aspect of life fuse in a common stream in which the unity of this life can no longer be re-established. Reality considered partially unfolds, in its own general unity as a pseudo-world apart, an object of mere contemplation. . . The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.
In space-time everything which for each of us constitutes the past, the present and the future is given en bloc. . . Each observer, as his time passes, discovers, so to speak, new slices of space-time which appear to him as successive aspects of the material world, though in reality the ensemble of events constituting space-time exist prior to his knowledge of them.
We live in the most multicultural, multiracial, multiethnic America ever, and I get the sense that because of that reality so many of us are turning nativist.
A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.
Your thinking creates your reality.
It is through your presence that creates your reality. What am I creating? I am a co-creator.
Sociological method as we practice it rests wholly on the basic principle that social facts must be studied as things, that is, as realities external to the individual. There is no principle for which we have received more criticism; but none is more fundamental. Indubitably for sociology to be possible, it must above all have an object all its own. It must take cognizance of a reality which is not in the domain of other sciences. . . there can be no sociology unless societies exist, and that societies cannot exist if there are only individuals.