A Quote by Bruno Latour

Reality is what resists. — © Bruno Latour
Reality is what resists.

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Reality is infinitely diverse, compared with even the subtlest conclusions of abstract thought, and does not allow of clear-cut and sweeping distinctions. Reality resists classification.
If an image is powerful enough, if it resists us, if, by its obscure coherence, part of it escapes our understanding, then it means that something has been won from reality.
If, therefore, the Greeks or others say that they are not committed to Peter and to his successors, they necessarily say that they are not of the sheep of Christ, since the Lord says that there is only one fold and one shepherd (Jn.10:16). Whoever, therefore, resists this authority, resists the command of God Himself.
The poet resists the pressures of reality, including the pressures of violence, in making, in forming, the poem. The tension is in the resistance - the poem is an act of resistance.
Reality's its own thing. And I'm not really into reality that much. I'm into this cinematic stylized reality that can comment on reality. It's like the most beautiful parts of reality and the saddest parts, but it's none of this middle ground.
What resists, persists.
One resists categorization at one's peril.
Truth resists simplicity.
The real is what resists symbolization absolutely.
Fortune resists half-hearted prayers.
Thought is not consecrated unless it resists trends.
Nature always resists the artist at the beginning.
The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.
The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it.
So long as man resists a situation, he will have it with him.
True friendship resists time, distance and silence.
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