“The reality of what we really are is often times found in the small snips, way down at the bottom of things.”
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American writer and radio host 1921–1999Related quotes

“Dig down to solid bottom, if it can be found”
Source: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book I, Chapter V "The City Walls" Sec. 1
Context: After insuring on these principles the healthfulness of the future city... the next thing to do is to lay the foundations for the towers and walls. Dig down to solid bottom, if it can be found, and lay them therein, going as deep as the magnitude of the proposed work seems to require. They should be much thicker than the part of the walls that will appear above ground and their structure should be as solid as it can possibly be laid.

“In life, the way we perceive life and reality is often instrumental in how things can unfold.”
Vanna Bonta Talks About Quantum fiction: Author Interview (2007)

Source: Why We Fail as Christians (1919), p. 6

Und doch sehr oft, wenn wir uns von dem Beabsichtigten für ewig getrennt sehen, haben wir schon auf unserm Wege irgend ein anderes Wünschenswerthe gefunden, etwas uns Gemäßes, mit dem uns zu begnügen wir eigentlich geboren sind.
Maxim 68, trans. Stopp
Maxims and Reflections (1833)

“Now, that we do not really know of what sort each thing is, or is not, has often been shown.”
Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Fragments

Quoted in Philosophy of Science Vol. 37 (1934), p. 157, and in The Truth of Science : Physical Theories and Reality (1997) by Roger Gerhard Newton, p. 176
Context: What is it that we humans depend on? We depend on our words... Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others. We must strive continually to extend the scope of our description, but in such a way that our messages do not thereby lose their objective or unambiguous character … We are suspended in language in such a way that we cannot say what is up and what is down. The word "reality" is also a word, a word which we must learn to use correctly.

Source: Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community