669 Quotes About Realization

Very early you come to the realization that nothing will ever take you away from yourself.

I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.

Unnatural death always provoked a peculiar unease, an uncomfortable realization that there were still some things that might not be susceptible to bureaucratic control.

The way in which a society organizes the life of its members ... is one "project" of realization among others. But once the project has become operative in the basic institutions and relations, it tends to become exclusive and to determine the development of the society as a whole.

In talking about equality and asking vehemently for its realization, nobody advocates a curtailment of his own present income.

It's good to slowly come to the realization that you understand nothing.

There's a realization that you have to do something but you just can't do it all the time.

I noticed every time I spent a lot of time in the bathtub, I would just get fantastic realizations about myself, and they were so valuable and liberating.

But egoism is more than this. It is the realization by the individual that he is above all institutions and all formulas; that they exist only so far as he chooses to make them his own by accepting them.