Titon Rahmawan quote: “The bizarre reality of an often absurd and contradictory world is that one's success and happiness can be a thorn in th…”

“Science is the most real guide for civilisation, for life, for success in the world. To search for a guide other than science is absurdity, ignorance and heresy.”

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881–1938) Turkish army officer, revolutionary, and the first President of Turkey

As quoted in Atatürkçülük, Volume I, General Staff of the Republic of Turkey, Millî Eğitim Basımevi, 1984, p. 283

“In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

Source: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“Success is terrifying. Like happiness, it is often appreciated in retrospect.”

Julie Andrews (1935) British actress, singer, author, theatre director, and dancer

This Week (18 September 1966)
Context: Success is terrifying. Like happiness, it is often appreciated in retrospect. It's only later that you place it in perspective. Years from now, I'll look back and say, "God, wasn't it wonderful?"

“Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than
any other.”

Brian Tracy (1944) American motivational speaker and writer

“One of the greatest powers in the world is the ability to define reality and cause others to accept it. This power is even increased although negatively when one can define reality and make others accept it even when it is to their disadvantage.”

Maulana Karenga (1941) Political activist

Kawaida and Questions of Life and Struggle (2008)

“I believe in the future resolution of these two states, dream and reality, which are seemingly so contradictory, into a kind of absolute reality, a surreality, if one may so speak.”

André Breton book Manifestoes of Surrealism

Source: Manifestoes of Surrealism

“It seems significant that according to quantum physics the indestructibility of energy on one hand — which expresses its timeless existence — and the appearance of energy in space and time on the other hand correspond to two contradictory (complementary) aspects of reality.”

Wolfgang Pauli (1900–1958) Austrian physicist, Nobel prize winner

"Modern Examples of Background Physics" ["Moderne Beispiele zur Hintergrundsphysik"] (1948) as translated by David Roscoe in Atom and Archetype (1992) edited by Carl Alfred Meier
Context: It seems significant that according to quantum physics the indestructibility of energy on one hand — which expresses its timeless existence — and the appearance of energy in space and time on the other hand correspond to two contradictory (complementary) aspects of reality. In fact, both are always present, but in individual cases the one or the other may be more pronounced.

“An incomprehensible metaphysics is a bizarre physics that, like other marvels, science one day will reveal.”

Zafar Mirzo (1972)

“You can not be an absurd optimist, but you can not have a sad or cramped approach because at the moment so is out of reality.”

Mariano Rajoy (1955) Spanish politician

6 May, 2014
As President, 2014
Source: El Mundo http://www.elmundo.es/espana/2014/05/06/53688afde2704e95318b4570.html

“To me, absurdity is the only reality.”

Frank Zappa (1940–1993) American musician, songwriter, composer, and record and film producer

As quoted a review of This door is too small (for a bear) (2010) http://www.needcompany.org/cgi-bin/www_edit/projects/nc/scripts/nc.cgi?session=38&a=v&t=EN&id=11029

“The bizarre reality of an often absurd and contradictory world is that one's success and happiness can be a thorn in the eyes of others.”

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