Aldous Huxley on ignoring reality

Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and the more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.

~ Aldous Huxley

Francis Menton on progressivism and reality

To be a woke progressive the first requirement is that you must refuse to acknowledge the real world as it exists.  You must pretend that the world is something else, something immediately transformable into a fantasy of perfection through coercive collective action.  You also must firmly close your eyes to any facts or evidence that might contradict such progressive fantasy, and indeed you must demand that any such facts or evidence be suppressed and never mentioned.

~ Francis Menton, The Essence Of Progressivism Is Refusal To Deal With Reality, Manhattan Contrarian, December 9, 2020

Ana Bozovic on the return to reality

It's fairy dust when everyone feels flush.  When they don't feel flush, I think they return to reality.

~ Ana Bozovic, Facebook video, March 19, 2020

Eckhart Tolle on sanity and insanity

To recognize one's own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence.

~ Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Tim Burton on insanity

One person's craziness is another person's reality.

~ Tim Burton

Will Rogers on winning an argument

People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.

~ Will Rogers