“The supernatural world has always been more real to me than the real world.”
Anne Rice (1941) American writer
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“The supernatural world has always been more real to me than the real world.”
Anne Rice (1941) American writer
“I think a picture is more like the real world when it is made out of the real world.”
Robert Rauschenberg (1925–2008) American artist
Quoted in: Kenneth Coutts-Smith (1970) The dream of Icarus, p. 53
1970's
“There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality”
Richard Dawkins (1941) English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author
The Enemies of Reason, "Slaves to Superstition" [1.01], 13 August 2007, timecode 00:38:16ff
The Enemies of Reason (August 2007)
Variant: Science is the poetry of reality.
Context: The word 'mundane' has come to mean boring and dull, and it really shouldn't. It should mean the opposite because it comes from the latin 'mundus', meaning the world, and the world is anything but dull; the world is wonderful. There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.
“The religious world is but the reflex of the real world.”
Karl Marx (1818–1883) German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist
Vol. I, Ch. 1, Section 4, pg. 91.
(Buch I) (1867)
“The world in your mind is as real as the world outside of it.”
Melissa de la Cruz book The Van Alen Legacy
Source: The Van Alen Legacy
Wheeler L. Baker (1938) President of Hargrave Military Academy
Source: Crisis Management: A Model For Managers (1993), p. 77
“The real world is where the monsters are.”
Rick Riordan book The Lightning Thief
Source: The Lightning Thief
“The world you perceive is drastically simplified model of the real world.”
Herbert A. Simon book Administrative Behavior
Source: 1940s-1950s, Administrative Behavior, 1947, p. xxvi.