Quotes About Constructed Reality

#1. We live almost completely immersed in a socially constructed reality that so fully absorbs our energy and attention that virtually none remains to experience the wonder of our existence.

Duane Elgin

#2. The cost of scientific advance is the humbling recognition that reality was not constructed to be easily grasped by the human mind. This is the cardinal tenet of scientific understanding. Our species and its ways of thinking are a product of evolution, not the purpose of evolution.

E. O. Wilson

#3. Tell her the Town told you to come read old dreams.

Haruki Murakami

#4. Dogs are us, only innocent.

Cynthia Heimel

#5. All directors are control freaks and very obsessive. I get the feeling that directors as kids, they all have had a childhood with not too much contact with other kids. They constructed their own reality and they continue to do it. It's a funny breed, directors.

Stellan Skarsgard

#6. Knowing yourself now requires the understanding that the conscious you occupies only a small room in the mansion of the brain, and that it has little control over the reality constructed for you.

David Eagleman

#7. I'm a late developer in everything. I have a fast mind and fast metabolism, and I'm an intense worker, but in terms of life development, I'm way behind.

Richard C. Armitage

#8. I have found that I get a better reaction from people once I am less bothered about their reaction.

William Hague

#9. Only by recognizing the boundaries of our socially constructed scientific-technological reality can we transcend them in imagination and then achieve effective human action.

Jerome Ravetz

#10. The essential ingredients for relationship are affection and commitment.

Robert A. Johnson

#11. The perception of reality is something that is constructed by the human mind based on its own needs and knacks.

Abhijit Naskar

#12. Love follows knowledge.

Catherine Of Siena

#13. Realism is not a matter of any fidelity to an empirical reality, but of the discursive conventions by which and for which a sense of reality is constructed.

John Fiske

#14. They say the sun brings life to the universe. The sun will rise and
look at it. Isn't it dead? Everything is dead. Dead men are everywhere. There are only people in the world, and all around them is silence
that's what the earth is.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#15. Marriage is not an incidental human construction but a creational reality. Any sexual ethic constructed without a clear connection to a theology of marriage is destined to be deficient.

Stanton L. Jones

#16. Reality is constructed by our perception, and it does not actually exist without it.

Russell Eric Dobda

#17. Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.

David Eagleman

#18. Is it really credible that random processes could have constructed a reality ... which excels in every sense anything produced by the intelligence of man?

Michael Denton

#19. If the Lord had meant us to pay income taxes, he'd have made us smart enough to prepare the return.

Kirk Kirkpatrick

#20. Television is a very highly constructed, and edited, and censored, and tailored, and marketed reality. But I'm not judgemental about it. I don't have anything against television. I just personally don't feel curious.

Jodhi May

#21. For the first time in American history, men in authority are talking about an 'emergency' without a foreseeable end ... such men as these are crackpot realists: in the name of realism they have constructed a paranoid reality all their own.

C. Wright Mills

#22. Everything that occurs teaches and prepares you for the next stage of life. Nothing is lost.

Zig Ziglar