A Quote by Ayn Rand

We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality

Ayn Rand

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Cannot Consequences Reality We Cannot

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Ayn Rand
Russian - Writer
February 2, 1905 - March 6, 1982

The one reality you can't evade is personal experience.

David Bentley Hart

Anxiety is an even better teacher than reality, for one can temporarily evade reality by avoiding the distasteful situation; but anxiety is a source of education always present because one carries it within.

Rollo May

If you evade suffering, you also evade the chance of joy.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Politics are about power; we cannot evade that truth or its consequences. We dream of a better world but it is in Utopia - that is, nowhere.

D. W Brogan

You can evade life, but you can not evade Death.

T. S. Eliot

If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Pseudo-mysticism seeks to evade reality; authentic mysticism wants to live it.

Vernon Howard

What does it cost to lose those weeks, that light, the very nights in the year preferred over all others? Can you evade the dying of the brightness? Or do you evade only its warning? Where are you left if you miss the message the blue nights bring?

Joan Didion

So it is useless to evade reality, because it only makes it more virulent in the end. But instead, look steadfastly into the slit, pin-pointed, malignant eyes of reality: as an old-hand trainer dominates his wild beasts. Take it by the scruff of the neck, and shake the evil intent out of it; till it rattles out harmlessly, like gall bladder stones, fossilized on the floor.

Caitlin Thomas

It turns out a VAT - a value-added tax - is a very easy tax to collect and a very hard tax to evade. It's a really good idea. It was invented about 60 years ago in France, of course. Because they're so good at taxing. They had a business tax that was easy to evade, and the head of the French IRS invented this value-added tax, which is very hard to evade.