Terry Goodkind Quotes About Reality
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The mice think they are right, but my cat eats them anyways. This is the point, reality is nothing, perception is everything.
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Wizard's Ninth Rule A contradiction can not exist in reality. Not in part, nor in whole.
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Reason and reality are the only means to just laws; mindless wishes, if given sovereignty, become deadly masters.
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I often hear people say that they read to escape reality, but I believe that what they’re really doing is reading to find reason for hope, to find strength. While a bad book leaves readers with a sense of hopelessness and despair, a good novel, through stories of values realized, of wrongs righted, can bring to readers a connection to the wonder of life. A good novel shows how life can and ought to be lived. It not only entertains but energizes and uplifts readers.
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Perception was easily accomplished, required little effort, and it never had to stand the test of reality.
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The only sovereign I can allow to rule me is reason. The first law of reason is this: what exists exists; what is is. From this irreducible, bedrock principle, all knowledge is built. This is the foundation from which life is embraced. Reason is a choice. Wishes and whims are not facts, nor are they a means to discovering them. Reason is our only way of grasping reality–it is our basic tool of survival. We are free to evade the effort of thinking, to reject reason, but we are not free to avoid the penalty of the abyss we refuse to see." -Richard
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Emotion did not play a part in truth, only reality did.
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Reality is irrelevant; Perception is everything.
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Are we our bodies? Is a small person less than a big person, then? If we were our bodies, then when we lost an arm, or a leg, would we be less, would we begin to fade from existence? No. We are the same person. We are not our bodies; we are our thoughts. As they form, they define who we are, and create the reality of our existence.
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Teachings that defy reason defy reality; what defies reality defies life. Defying life is embracing death.
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