“I wonder, whether, if I had had any education I should have been more, or less, of a fool than I am. It would have deprived me surely of those exquisite moments of mental flatulence which every now and then inflate the cerebral vacuum with a delicious sense of latent possibilities-of stretching oneself to cosmic limits, and who would ever give up the reality of dreams for relative knowledge?” IfsGivingShouldHas BeensMomentsDreamRealityWonderPossibilityFoolLimitsGiving UpShould HaveOneselfRelativeCosmicNow And ThenDeliciousDeprivedExquisiteShould Have BeenVacuumsStretchingLatentCerebralFlatulence Book:Her Brothers Her Journal Source: Her Brothers Her Journal
“Books are influential in proportion to their obscurity, provided that the obscurity be that of inexpressible Realities. The Bible is the most obscure book in the world. He must be a great fool who thinks he understands the plainest chapter of it.” ThinkingWorldBookRealityFoolProportionChaptersObscureInfluentialObscurity Book:The Root, the Rod and the Flower Source: The Root, the Rod and the Flower
“What I am trying to do is something different - an effect of reality, but what some fools call Impressionism, a term that is usually misapplied, especially by the critics who don't hesitate to apply it to Turner, the greatest creator of mysterious effects in the whole world of art.” WorldTryingArtDifferentWholeRealityTermEffectsFoolCriticsCreatorWhole WorldMysteriousTurnerImpressionism Author:Claude Debussy
“Ultimately, the Indian public is not fool. They can spot the difference between what is said for effect and what is done in reality. Whether it is politicians or actors or social activists, they know for sure whom to trust or not.” KnowsSaidDoneRealityActorsSocialDifferencesEffectsFoolPoliticianSpotsIndianActivistWhom To Trust Author:Rahul Bose
“So long as mathematicians can impose up-and-down semantics upon students while trafficking personally in the non-up-and-down advantages of their concise statements, they can impose upon the ignorance of man a monopoly of access to accurate processing of information and can fool even themselves by thought habits governing the becoming behavior of professional specialists, by disclaiming the necessity of, or responsibility for, comprehensive adjustment of the a priori thought to total reality of universal principles.” MenLongRealityResponsibilityPrinciplesInformationStudentsIgnoranceFoolBecomingHabitBehaviorAdvantageUniversalAccessStatementsAccurateMathematicianMonopolyUp And DownGoverningComprehensiveAdjustmentSpecialistsProcessingTraffickingConciseSemantics Author:R. Buckminster Fuller
“Only fools imagine they are already awake. How clearly they understand everything! How easily they distinguish this deception from that reality!” RealityImagineFoolDeceptionAwake Author:Zhuangzi
“The fool says, "These are my sons, this is my land, this is my money." In reality, the fool does not own himself, much less sons, land, or money.” DoeRealityLandSonFoolMy Son Author:Gautama Buddha
“When you get the call from Quentin Tarantino, it's the call of a lifetime. You don't allow yourself to be vulnerable enough or to be fool enough to expect that phone call to happen, in reality.” EnoughRealityHappensFoolLifetimePhonesVulnerablePhone CallsQuentinTarantino Author:Walton Goggins
“I don't want to fool people. If I wanted to do that, I would be working with virtual reality. I want to operate on the other level, the other end of the illusion spectrum. I want to create the worst possible illusions so it doesn't really fool people, but instead give people a measure of their own belief. It makes them aware of how much they need to be fooled in order to understand the world around them.” PeopleIfsWorldWantNeedsGivingEndsRealityWould BeWantedOrderBeliefLevelsWorstFoolIllusionSpectrumFooledVirtual Reality Author:Vik Muniz
“I would love to be a guest on a talk show or a panel that shows women who have been on reality shows who've had success, to prove to audiences that you don't have to be a fool to become successful.” Has BeensShowsRealityAudienceSuccessfulFoolProveGuestsTalk ShowsReality ShowsBecoming Successful Author:NeNe Leakes
“In the voyeurism of Reality TV, the viewer's passivity is kept intact, pampered and massaged and force-fed Chicken McNuggets of carefully edited snippets that permit him or her to sit in easy judgment and feel superior at watching familiar strangers make fools of themselves. Reality TV looks in only one direction: down.” FeelsLooksRealityForceEasyTvsFoolJudgmentStrangerFamiliarSuperiorsFedsChickensPermitViewersOne DirectionReality TvPassivityEditedPamperedPassivity Is Author:James Wolcott
“And then the dreams break into a million tiny pieces. The dream dies. Which leaves you with a choice: you can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream.” DreamRealityDiesChoicesBreakMillionsPiecesFoolTinySettlingHeartburn Author:Nora Ephron