To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, but to imagine your facts is another. – John Burroughs Category: Reality
This sort of adoration of the real is but a heightening of the beau ideal. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron Category: Reality
Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there. – E.H. Gombrich, Art and Illusion, 1960 Category: Reality
If I choose abstraction over reality, it is because I find it the lesser chaos. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com Category: Reality
A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the wills freedom after it. – Aldous Huxley Category: Freedom
Well, I think any time you delve into this sort of religion, politics, as you well know, youre going to, you know, touch a few nerves. I wasnt – now – and this is the honest truth. – Mel Gibson Category: Politics