“The touch of reality is salvation for the man who smothers amid forms and shadows. A blind man would rejoice in sight though his eyes opened on the carnage of a battlefield.” MenRealityEyeFormHe ManShadowSightBlindSalvationHis EyesRejoiceBattlefieldsBlind ManCarnage Author:Oscar W. Firkins
“In every community there are little knots of fantastic extremists who loudly proclaim that they are striving for righteousness, and who, in reality, do their feeble best for unrighteousness. Just as the upright politician should hold in peculiar scorn the man who makes the name of politician a reproach and a shame, so the genuine reformer should realize that the cause he champions is especially jeopardized by the mock reformer who does what he can to make reform a laughingstock among decent men.” MenShouldLittlesDoeRealityNamesCausesRealizingCommunityHe ManPoliticianShameStriveGenuineReformFantasticChampionDecentRighteousnessPeculiarScornExtremismExtremistMockKnotsReproachReformersDecent ManUnrighteousness Book:The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses Source: The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses
“One of man's important mistakes, one which must be remembered, is his illusion in regard to his I. Man such as we know him, the 'man-machine,' the man who cannot 'do,' and with whom and through whom everything 'happens,' cannot have a permanent and single I. His I changes as quickly as his thoughts, feelings and moods, and he makes a profound mistake in considering himself always one and the same person; in reality he is always a different person, not the one he was a moment ago.” KnowsMenPersonsImportantDifferentMomentsFeelingsRealityHappensMistakeHe ManIllusionMachinesRegardProfoundMoodPermanentRememberedConsidering Author:G. I. Gurdjieff
“I think, is wonderful about growing older, is appreciation for the miracle of existence, of life. I thank God every day. I also do believe that belief and imagination manifests reality. And therefore, even though it took twenty-five years, I did find the house, eventually, and the man I could live with.” ThinkingMenYearsBelieveRealityHouseBeliefImaginationExistenceFiveGrowingWonderfulHe ManMiracleTwentiesAppreciationFive YearsThank GodGrowing OldTwenty FiveGrowing OlderExistence Of Life Author:Barbra Streisand
“The man visited by ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for realities is an enthusiast; the man who supports his madness with murder is a fanatic.” MenDreamRealityVisionSupportHe ManMadnessMurderEcstasyFanaticsFanaticismCriminal Mind Author:Voltaire
“The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist (our friends being friends only in the light of an agreeable folly which travels with us through life and to which we readily accommodate ourselves, but which at the bottom of our hearts we know to be no more reasonable than the delusion of the man who talks to the furniture because he believes that it is alive.).” KnowsMenGivingBelieveHeartDoeRealityLightArtistHoursAliveSacrificeHe ManConversationGiving UpBottomFollyReasonableDelusionFurnitureAccommodate Book:The past recaptured Source: The past recaptured