![... [L]ess than at any time does a simple reproduction of reality tell us anything about reality. A photograph of the Krupp works or GEC yields almost nothing about those institutions. Reality proper has slipped into the functional. The reification of human relationships, the factory, let's say, no longer reveals these relationships. Therefore something has to be constructed, something artificial, something set up.](/assets/img/quote-photos/less-than-at-any-time-does-a-simple-reproduction-of-reality-tell-us-anythin.jpg)
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simple simplicity
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simple ideas usual
The Q I loathe and despise, the Q every single writer I know loathes and despises, is this one: 'Where,' the reader asks, 'do you get your ideas?' It's a simple question, and my usual response is a kind of helpless, 'I don't know.' Ayelet Waldman
simple important spontaneous
The better organized you are in the simple things, the more spontaneous and free you can be in the ore important things. Brian Tracy
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Putting on a new pair of glasses or sunglasses is a simple way to completely transform your look - just like a new hairstyle. Brad Goreski
simple names people
I tried to make it a simple as possible for people so they could pronounce my name. Jamie Farr
simple world ignored
The world’s not so simple anymore, I guess it never was. We ignored it, now we can’t. Branch Rickey
simple want able
If there was a simple ethic for the band, it was that we want to be able to do whatever we want to do. Billy Corgan
simple ideas wish
The idea of Socialism is at once grandiose and simple. . .We may say, in fact, that it is one of the most ambitious creations of the human spirit, . . .so magnificent, so daring, that it has rightly aroused the greatest admiration. If we wish to save the world from barbarism we have to refute Socialism, but we cannot thrust it carelessly aside. Ludwig von Mises
reality fiction epiphany
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reality limits fairy-tale
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reality thinking people
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reality ideas broken
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reality men order
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reality self giving
That fierce imprisonment in the self is but the obverse of the self-giving which is absolute reality. C. S. Lewis
reality choices painting
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reality causes indifference
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yield flames fire
Wit is brushwood; judgment, timber; the one gives the greatest flame, the other yields the most durable heat; and both meeting make the best fire. Thomas Overbury
yield insight aesthetic
What always seems miraculous is when aesthetic necessities yield an insight which otherwise I would have missed. Susan Griffin
yield joy tears
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yield waiting mind
Perhaps you will have to spend hours on your knees or upon your face before the throne. Never mind. Wait. God will do great things for you if you will wait for Him. Yield to Him. Cooperate with Him. John Smith
yield order people
A sermon is a form that yields a certain kind of meaning in the same way that, say, a sonnet is a form that deals with a certain kind of meaning that has to do with putting things in relation to each other, allowing for the fact of complexity reversal, such things. Sermons are, at their best, excursions into difficulty that are addressed to people who come there in order to hear that. Marilynne Robinson
yield devil way
The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn. Martin Luther
yield sensual want
If any sensual weakness arise, we are to yield all our sound forces to the overthrowing of so unnatural a rebellion; wherein how can we want courage, since we are to deal against so feeble an adversary, that in itself is nothing but weakness? Nay, we are to resolve that if reason direct it, we must do it, and if we must do it, we will do it; for to say "I cannot" is childish, and "I will not" is womanish. Philip Sidney
yield black mind
Combining quantum entanglement with wormholes yields mind boggling results about black holes. But I don't trust them until we have a theory of everything which can combine quantum effects with general relativity. i.e. we need to have a full blown string theory resolve this sticky question. Michio Kaku
yield rose grace
To my surprise, Joscelin rose. ‘Phedre-’ He began, then halted. Sitting below him, I watched him smile to himself, quiet and private. ‘Phedre yields with a willow’s grace,’ he said softly. ‘And endures with the strength of mountains. Without her, life would be calm; and yet lack all meaning. Jacqueline Carey