“It would be wisest not to worry too much about the sterile periods. They ventilate the subject and instill into it the reality of daily life.” RealityWould BeWorryToo MuchSubjectsPeriodsDaily LifeWisestInstill Author:Andre Gide
“I think J.S. Bach's music stands among humankind's greatest accomplishments. For me, Bach's music is not only as good as music gets, but also as good as it gets, period -- as good as existence, reality, life and the world.” ThinkingWorldRealityExistencePeriodsMusic IsAccomplishmentHumankindGreatest AccomplishmentGood As It GetsBach's Music Author:Andrew W.K.
“Einstein's space is no closer to reality than Van Gogh's sky . The glory of science is not in a truth more absolute than the truth of Bach or Tolstoy, but in the act of creation itself. The scientist's discoveries impose his own order on chaos, as the composer or painter imposes his; an order that always refers to limited aspects of reality, and is based on the observer's frame of reference, which differs from period to period as a Rembrant nude differs from a nude by Manet.” RealityOrderSpaceSkyCreationPeriodsGloryDiscoveryAspectScientistAbsolutesChaosPainterComposerObserversVansFrame Of Reference Book:The Act of Creation Source: The Act of Creation
“We must help all our young people to understand that ours is still a very poor country, that we cannot change this situation radically in a short time, and that only through the united efforts of our younger generation and all our people, working with their own hands, can China be made strong and prosperous within a period of several decades. The establishment of our socialist system has opened the road leading to the ideal society of the future, but to translate this ideal into reality needs hard work.” PeopleNeedsMadeStillsCountryHardHelpingHandsRealityYoungStrongPoorUnitedEffortSituationGenerationsHard WorkPeriodsIdealsChinaDecadesEstablishmentTranslateSocialistProsperousShort TimeYounger GenerationPoor CountriesIdeal Society Author:Mao Zedong
“The 60's has its own particular style and I think setting film in a period enables you to create your own reality that the audience can escape into and have fun, and in a way make it more real than it actually is.” ThinkingWayRealRealityFilmFunAudienceStyleParticularPeriodsSettingSettingsHaving Fun Author:Lionel Wigram
“Fantasy is seductive and much more wonderful than reality, but you can't take it to the bank. It's always an escape. And if used as an escape, as in attending a movie or a show for a circumscribed period of time, it's fine. When it starts to become undifferentiated from reality, it leads to big trouble.” IfsShowsBigsRealityUsedFantasyWonderfulTroubleFinePeriodsSeductiveAttending Author:Woody Allen
“We're now in one of those periods when the reality of intense pressure on the middle class diverges from long-held assumptions of how the American bargain should work” ShouldLongRealityClassMiddlePeriodsPressureIntenseAssumptionMiddle ClassBargains Author:James Fallows
“Ressentiment is always to some degree a determinant of the romantic type of mind. At least this is so when the romantic nostalgia for some past era (Hellas, the Middle Ages, etc.) is not primarily based on the values of that period, but on the wish to escape from the present. Then all praise of the “past” has the implied purpose of downgrading present-day reality.” MindRealityAgePastPurposeValuesWishMiddleTypePeriodsDegreesPraiseNostalgiaErasEtcMiddle AgesPresent DayImpliedDowngrading Book:On Feeling, Knowing, and Valuing: Selected Writings Source: On Feeling, Knowing, and Valuing: Selected Writings
“That is an incredible period I think when you have a near-death experience. You are really understanding that there is a greater self than the physical body, and the cosmic anatomy as I call it is suspended and physical, is almost attached to it but not quite, and you're living in that in-between sphere of apparent reality around you and then the real reality of the infiniteness of it all.” ThinkingRealSelfBodyRealityUnderstandingGreaterPeriodsIncrediblesSpheresCosmicAnatomySuspendedPhysical BodyNear DeathNear Death Experience Author:Maya Tiwari
“We cannot wholly rely, as though it were Medieval times, [on the notion that] the only reality is what we see in front of us. There are germs. There are changes that are happening in our planet's ecology that are happening over such a long period of time that we cannot see the changes.” LongRealityFrontsPlanetsPeriodsHappeningsNotionRelyEcologyOur PlanetMedievalGermsLong Periods Of TimeMedieval Times Author:John Hodgman
“We have entered a period of intolerance which combines, as it sometimes does in America, with a sugary taste for euphemism. This conjunction fosters events that go beyond the wildest dream of satire- if satire existed in America anymore; perhaps the reason for its weakness is that reality has superseded it.” IfsDoeSometimesReasonDreamRealityAmericaEventsInternetPeriodsTasteWeaknessSatireIntoleranceFree SpeechEuphemismConjunctionsWildest Dreams Author:Robert Hughes
“At certain periods of history it is only poetry that is capable of dealing with reality by condensing it into something graspable, something that otherwise wouldn't be retained by the mind.” MindRealityCertainPeriodsCapable Author:Joseph Brodsky
“I don't believe in God, but I do believe in that chaotic reality, and also this: that none of us knows anything about anything. Period.” KnowsBelieveRealityPeriodsDon't BelieveBelieve In GodChaotic Author:Emily Susan Rapp
“Meek's Cutoff by Kelly Reichardt. It's beautifully shot. It's a complex story. The filmmaker gave a very patient and feminine touch to a story that takes place during a period of history that's very masculine, without losing any of the unforgiving harshness of the reality where the characters found themselves in.” CharacterStoriesRealityFoundPeriodsLosingShotsComplexesPatientFilmmakerFeminineMasculineMeekUnforgivingHarshness Author:Chloe Zhao