#reality

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity. ↗

— George Santayana

#dignity #dominates #end #exact #exact measure

It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#communication #essentially #illusion #imagine #incidental

No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#ever #languages #reality #representing #same

I still believe that capitalism is too harsh and I believe that, even within that, there is a lot of satisfaction and beauty if you happen to be one of the lucky ones, although that doesn't eradicate the reality of the suffering. It's all true at once, kind of humming and sublime. ↗

— George Saunders

#beauty #believe #capitalism #eradicate #even

It is not necessary to deny another's reality in order to affirm your own. ↗

— Anne Wilson Schaef

#another #deny #necessary #order #own

I would only ever be involved in a reality show that was about real life and had lots of action. ↗

— Steven Seagal

#action #ever #had #i #involved

I have failed to continue to set an example for a secure, loving family unit as an example for our children. That is the reality of it. There is no way of getting around it. ↗

— Seal

#children #continue #example #failed #family

If I leave, reality will devour me. Then they will all really be dead. ↗

— Asne Seierstad

#devour #i #leave #me #reality

These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are; at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile. ↗

— Ayrton Senna

#best #bring #cannot #doing #else

Fame isolates people from reality. That happens to many artists, and I don't want it to happen to me. ↗

— Shakira

#fame #happen #happens #i #isolates