Denial Of Reality Quotes

• To deny that human beings are filled with anti-social passions betrays a denial of reality and a lack of self-awareness. One has to be taught nonsense for a great many formative years to believe it.

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  Dennis Prager

  Believe   Passion   Reality  

  Dennis Prager (2016). “A Dark Time in America”, p.8, Creators Publishing

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• Religion is a belief in invisible beings, inaudible voices, intangible entities, undetectable forces, and events and judgments that happen after we die. It therefore has no reality check. And it is therefore uniquely armored against criticism, questioning, and self-correction. It is uniquely armored against anything that might stop it from spinning into extreme absurdity, extreme denial of reality… and extreme, grotesque immorality.

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  Greta Christina

  Reality   Voice   Self  

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• Virtual reality is a denial of reality. We need to be open to the powers of imagination, which brings something useful to reality. Virtual reality can imprison people.

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  Hayao Miyazaki

  Reality   People   Imagination  

  Source: www.midnighteye.com

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• It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.

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  Bill Watterson

  Life   Success   Beautiful  

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• That is the most accurate, predictive model for his behavior....I think Obama gets up every morning with a worldview that is fundamentally wrong about reality...If you look at the continuous denial of reality, there has got to be a point where someone stands up and says that this is just factually insane.

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  Newt Gingrich

  Morning   Reality   Thinking  

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• Hope is the denial of reality. It is the carrot dangled before the draft horse to keep him plodding along in a vain attempt to reach it." "Are you saying we shouldn't hope?" "I'm saying we should remove the carrot and walk forward with our eyes open!

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  Margaret Weis

  Horse   Eye   Reality  

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• Wonder is not a Pollyanna stance, not a denial of reality; wonder is an acknowledgement of the power of the mind to transform, to notice, to decide what experience shall mean.

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  Christina Baldwin

  Inspirational   Mean   Reality  

  Christina Baldwin (1991). “Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest”, Bantam

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• Dreams of innocence are just that; they usually depend on a denial of reality that can be its own form of hubris.

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  Michael Pollan

  Dream   Reality   Denial  

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.183, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Hope is the denial of reality.

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  Margaret Weis

  Hope   Reality   Denial  

  Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman (2009). “Dragons of the Dwarven Depths: Lost Chronicles, Volume One”, p.22, Wizards of the Coast

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• Life is worthy of the name only when it reflects Reality in action. No university will teach you how to live so that when the time of dying comes, you can say: I lived well I do not need to live again. Most of us die wishing we could live again. So many mistakes committed, so much left undone. Most of the people vegetate, but do not live. They merely gather experience and enrich their memory. But experience is the denial of Reality, which is neither sensory nor conceptual, neither of the body, nor of the mind, though it includes and transcends both.

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  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Spiritual   Wisdom   Memories  

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