„Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.“

— Nikos Kazantzakis

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„"Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality," says one of my favorite Byzantine mystics. I did this when a child; I do it now as well in the most creative moments of my life.“
— Nikos Kazantzakis
„Faith is like radar that sees through the fog -- the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.“
— Corrie ten Boom
„Reality has changed, and we changed with it. However, I never changed sides. I have always been on the side of justice, democracy and social equality.“
— Dilma Rousseff
„Literature is indispensable to the world. The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.“
— James Baldwin
„If the word integration means anything, this is what it means: that we, with love, shall force our brothers to see themselves as they are, to cease fleeing from reality and begin to change it.“
— James Baldwin
„We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.“
— Ayn Rand
„Dialectics does not deny the syllogism, but teaches us to combine syllogisms in such a way as to bring our understanding closer to the eternally changing reality.“
— Leon Trotsky
„You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.“
— Buckminster Fuller
„You write in order to change the world… if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.“
— James Baldwin
„You gotta make a change. Its time for us as a people to start making some changes, lets change the way we eat, lets change the way we live, and lets change the way we treat each other. You see the old way wasn't working so its on us, to do what we gotta do to survive.“
— Tupac Shakur