Reality denied comes back to haunt.
Interpretation
Ignoring the truth of reality can lead to repercussions later.
This quote suggests that when individuals refuse to acknowledge or confront uncomfortable truths about reality, those truths will inevitably emerge and impact their lives. It serves as a warning about the consequences of denial and the importance of facing difficult realities instead of avoiding them.
In practice
In a self-help seminar, this quote can be used to encourage participants to face their personal challenges.
We are living in a computer-programmed reality, and the only clue we have to it is when some variable is changed, and some alteration in reality occurs. We have the overwhelming impression that we were reliving the present - deja vu.
Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.
On some other world, possibly it is different. Better. There are clear good and evil alternatives. Not these obscure admixtures, these blends, with no proper tool by which to untangle the components.
"Do you have information that there's an android in the cast? I'd be glad to help you, and if I were an android would I be glad to help you?" "An android," he said, "doesn't care what happens to another android. That's one of the indications we look for." "Then," Miss Luft said, "you must be an android."
The universe is information and we are stationary in it, not three dimensional and not in space or time.
A man is an angel that has gone deranged.
Alive without breath, As cold as death; Never thirsty, ever drinking, All in mail never clinking.
What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
The way to misuse our possessions is to use them as an insurance against the morrow. Anxiety is always directed to the morrow, whereas goods are in the strictest sense meant to be used only for to-day.
Skepticism . . . is not intellectual only it is moral also, a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul.
The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.
The high point of civilization is that you can hate me and I can hate you but we develop an etiquette that allows us to deal with each other because if we acted solely upon our impulse we'd probably go to war.
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