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  1. alain de botton _ Religion for Atheists: A

    It is hope--with regard to our careers, our love lives, our children, our politicians, and our planet--that is primarily to blame for angering and embittering us. The incompatibility between the grandeur of our aspirations and the mean reality of our condition generates the violent disappointments which rack our days and etch themselves in lines of acrimony across our faces.
    book-quotelifehopereality

  2. Alain de Botton _ Religion for Atheists: A

    It is one of the unexpected disasters of the modern age that our new unparalleled access to information has come at the price of our capacity to concentrate on anything much. The deep, immersive thinking which produced many of civilization's most important achievements has come under unprecedented assault. We are almost never far from a machine that guarantees us a mesmerizing and libidinous escape from reality. The feelings and thoughts which we have omitted to experience while looking at our screens are left to find their revenge in involuntary twitches and our ever-decreasing ability to fall asleep when we should.
    book-quoterealityinformationthinking

  3. Manuel Rivas _ The Carpenter's Pencil

    el humano no es fruto de la perfección, sino de una enfermedad"
    book-quoterealityhumanityspain

  4. Patrick McGrath _ Trauma

    We see nobody clearly. We see only the ghosts of absent others, and mistake for reality the fictions we construct from blueprints drawn up in early childhood. This is the problem.
    book-quoterealitytraumaother-people

  5. Stephen R. Donaldson _ The Mirror of Her Dreams

    The speed felt tremendous. And the bottom of the ravine was treacherous. She ought to control her mount somehow - slow it; steer it to safer footing. Of course. And while she was at it, she ought to defeat the Alend Monarch's army, take care of Master Gilbur and the arch-Imager Vagel, and produce peace on earth. While composing great music with her free hand. Instead of doing all that, however, she concentrated with a pure white intensity that resembled terror on simply staying in the saddle
    book-quotesarcasmrealityirony

  6. Stephen R. Donaldson _ Lord Foul's Bane

    A real man-real in all the ways that we recognize as real-finds himself suddenly abstracted from the world and deposited in a physical situation which could not possibly exist: sounds have aroma, smells have color and depth, sights have texture, touches have pitch and timbre. There he is informed by a disembodied voice that he has been brought to that place as a champion for his world. He must fight to the death in single combat against a champion from another world. If he is defeated, he will die, and his world-the real world-will be destroyed because it lacks the inner strength to survive.The man refuses to believe that what he is told is true. He asserts that he is either dreaming or hallucinating, and declines to be put in the false position of fighting to the death where no "real" danger exists. He is implacable in his determination to disbelieve his apparent situation, and does not defend himself when he is attacked by the champion of the other world. Is the man's behavior courageous or cowardly? This is the fundamental question of ethics."
    book-quoterealityethicscowardice

  7. Jean Baudrillard _ Simulacra and Simulation

    To dissimulate is to pretend not to have what one has. To simulate is to feign to have what one doesn't have.
    book-quoterealitysimulationhaving

  8. Jean Baudrillard _ Simulacra and Simulation

    It is useless to dream of revolution through content, useless to dream of a revelation through form, because the medium and the real are now in a single nebula whose truth is indecipherable.
    book-quoterevolutiontruthreality

  9. Jean Baudrillard _ Simulacra and Simulation

    The only weapon of power, its only strategy against this defection, is to reinject the real and the referential everywhere, to persuade us of the reality of the social, of the gravity of the economy and the finalities of production.
    book-quotesocietypowerreality

  10. Jean Baudrillard _ Simulacra and Simulation

    Today abstraction is no longer that of the map, the double, the mirror, or the concept. Simulation is no longer that of a territory, a referential being, or a substance. It is the generation by models of a real without origin or reality: a hyperreal.
    book-quoterealitymapterritory

  11. Jean Baudrillard _ Simulacra and Simulation

    it is dangerous to unmask images, since they dissimulate the fact that there is nothing behind them}.
    book-quoterealitysimulationunmasking

  12. Jean Baudrillard _ Simulacra and Simulation

    The media represents world that is more real than reality that we can experience. People lose the ability to distinguish between reality and fantasy. They also begin to engage with the fantasy without realizing what it really is.They seek happiness and fulfilment through the simulacra of reality, e.g. media and avoid the contact/interaction with the real world.
    book-quotehappinessrealitymedia
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