If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
—William Blake
Showing posts with label reality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reality. Show all posts
Sunday, March 09, 2025
Post #3272
Monday, February 11, 2019
Post #2761
Después de los cuarenta años la verdadera cara la tenemos en la nuca, mirando desesperadamente para atrás. (After forty years, the real face is on the back of the neck, looking desperately back.)
—Julio Cortázar
—Julio Cortázar
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Post #1374
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
—William Arthur Ward
—William Arthur Ward
Sunday, October 06, 2013
Post #1365
Things are sullen, and will be as they are, whatever we think them or wish them to be.
—Ralph Cudworth
—Ralph Cudworth
Monday, May 21, 2012
Post #957
To do all that one is able to do is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do is to be a god.
—Napoleon Bonaparte
—Napoleon Bonaparte
Friday, April 06, 2012
Post #913
It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not, it's a visa, and it runs out fast.
—Jane Burchill
—Jane Burchill
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Post #780
Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes with which we see reality.
—Nikos Kasantzakis
—Nikos Kasantzakis
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Post #718
A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
—Samuel Johnson
—Samuel Johnson
Monday, August 01, 2011
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Monday, August 02, 2010
Post #304
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
—George Bernard Shaw
—George Bernard Shaw
Tuesday, March 09, 2010
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
Post #131
Reality is that stuff which, no matter what you believe, just won't go away.
—David Paktor
—David Paktor
A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.
- Dave
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