“Finally, it is important to make it clear that imagination is not an exercise for those detached from reality, those who live in the air. On the contrary, when we imagine something, we do it necessarily conditioned by a lack in our concrete reality. When children imagine free and happy schools, it is because their real schools deny them freedom and happiness.” ChildrenImportantRealRealitySchoolImaginationClearImagineAirSocietyExerciseDenyContraryConcreteDetachedFreedom And Happiness Author:Paulo Freire
“The truth of art consists in its power to break the monopoly that those in power exercise by defining what is real.” ArtRealRealityBreakExerciseMonopolyDefining Book:The old moderns: essays on literature and theory Source: The old moderns: essays on literature and theory
“Language is power, in ways more literal than most people think. When we speak, we exercise the power of language to transform reality. Why don't more of us realize the connection between language and power?” PeopleThinkingWayRealitySpeakLanguageRealizingExerciseConnectionsLiteralPower Of LanguageLanguage And Power Author:Julia Penelope
“[P]rescientific people... could never guess the nature of physical reality beyond the tiny sphere attainable by unaided common sense. Nothing else ever worked, no exercise from myth, revelation, art, trance, or any other conceivable means; and notwithstanding the emotional satisfaction it gives, mysticism, the strongest prescientific probe in the unknown, has yielded zero.” PeopleGivingMeanArtRealityReligionCommonEmotionalExerciseSatisfactionMythTinyCommon SenseRevelationsMysticismStrongestZeroSpheresTrance Author:E. O. Wilson
“A corporation is simply a form of organization used by human beings to achieve desired ends... Protecting the free-exercise rights of corporations like Hobby Lobby, Conestoga, and Mardel protects the religious liberty of the humans who own and control those companies.” HumansEndsRealityFormUsedReligionPoliticsChurchReligiousHuman BeingsCompanyLibertyRightsAchievePolicyExerciseProtectOrganizationSeparationIdeologyCorporationsHobbiesChurch And StateSeparation Of Church And StateReligious Liberty Author:Samuel Alito
“On the one hand I follow a vocation because I have an ability that I should exercise, but I want to use it for a reason, because I don't see that the freedoms that I enjoy are God-given realities. So I have a very healthy, activist general tension in me which feels that no, this is not gratuitous, it is important to keep this in focus.” WantFeelsShouldImportantReasonUseHandsRealityGivenEnjoyAbilityFocusExerciseHealthyTensionActivistVocation Author:Wolfgang Tillmans
“I take for granted that for the imaginative writer, the exercise of the imagination is part of the basic process of coping with reality, just as actors need to act all the time to make up for some deficiency in their sense of themselves.” NeedsRealityActorsProcessImaginationExerciseGrantedImaginativeCopingDeficiency Author:J. G. Ballard
“You cannot be responsible for Jim Crow. You can not be responsible for racism. This is much more a problem for the person exercising racism.You are confronted with the reality of racism when you go in the streets, when the eyes of others come upon you. [James] Baldwin goes back with you to all the experiences you went through and gives a name to them, and explains why it is like this.” GivingPersonsProblemRealityEyeNamesStreetsExerciseRacismResponsibleCan NotCrowBeing ResponsibleJim Crow Author:Raoul Peck
“I don't experience much loneliness, oddly. Sometimes I have thought I was lonely and it turned out I was in reality wanting a snack, just like sometimes I have thought I was mad and it turned out I was actually wearing too many sweaters. I've always been very content in the company of my own thoughts, and I prefer to spend much of my time alone. But I do like conversation - for the exercise, for the spark, for the let's-see-where-it-takes-us, for being able to dip into communal creativity when you're tired of your own air.” SometimesRealityCreativityLonelinessExerciseLonelyMadTiredMe Alone Author:Patricia Lockwood
“Acting is a child's game. It's your willingness to suspend one reality and substitute it for another. That reality lives and breathes in your imagination. The actors that I want to be like exercise that way of thinking, and that's kind of what I do.” ThinkingKindRealityImaginationActingExerciseBreatheWillingness Author:Walton Goggins
“All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.” LifeRealityHappinessWalksJourneyWalkingExerciseWanderHikingNew ThoughtTrekkingStrollingSaunteringWalking AwayConceivingIdeationActive MindsHiking Outdoors Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“I've always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. You're trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what that's about so you can represent it.” TryingRealityCertainActingFiguresEmotionalExerciseEmpathyConfused Author:Edward Norton
“The world is your exercise book, the pages on which you do your sums. It is not reality, though you may express reality there if you wish. You are also free to write lies, or nonsense, or to tear the pages.” IfsWorldWritingMayBookRealityLyingWishTearsExercisePagesNonsenseDeceitWish YouMessiahRemember Where You Came Author:Richard Bach
“Beginning with Santa Claus as a cognitive exercise, a child is encouraged to share the same idea of reality as his peers. Even if that reality is patently invented and ludicrous, belief is encouraged with gifts that support and promote the common cultural lies. The greatest consensus in modern society is our traffic systems. The way a flood of strangers can interact, sharing a path, almost all of them traveling without incident. It only takes one dissenting driver to create anarchy.” IfsWayChildrenIdeasRealityLyingBeliefCommonSupportPathShareModernExerciseStrangerDriversAnarchyFloodTrafficPeersConsensusSantaIncidentsCognitiveSanta ClausModern Society Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“Time can divorce us from the reality of people, it can separate us from people and turn them into ghosts. Or rather it is we who turn them into ghosts or demons. Some kinds of fruitless preoccupations with the past can create such simulacra, and they can exercise power, like those heroes at Troy fighting for a phantom Helen.” PeopleKindRealityPastTurnsFightingHeroExerciseDivorceGhostDemonPhantomsPreoccupationHelen Book:The Sea, The Sea Source: The Sea, The Sea
“If the work of our sanctification presents us with difficulties that appear insurmountable, it is because we do not look at it in the right way. In reality, holiness consists in one thing alone, namely, fidelity to God's plan. And this fidelity is equally within everyone's capacity in both its active and passive exercise.” IfsWayLooksRealityPlansOne ThingExerciseCapacityDifficultyActiveHolinessPassiveRight WayFidelitySanctificationGod's PlanInsurmountable Author:Jean-Pierre de Caussade