"It is no use dealing with illusions..." - Quote by Winston Churchill
It is no use dealing with illusions and make-believes. We must look at the facts. The world ... is too dangerous for anyone to be able to afford to nurse illusions. We must look at realities.
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More on Realism
“It is not always possible to have everything go as one likes. In working with allies, it sometimes happens that they develop opinions of their own”
“I've sought a constructive relationship with Russia, but what I have also been is realistic in recognizing that there is some significant differences in how Russia views the world and how we view the world.”
“We ought not to desire the impossible.”
More on Truth
“Reality is a unified whole, but thought cuts it up into fragments.”
“Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.”
“For years I've wanted to live according to everyone else's morals. I've forced myself to live like everyone else, to look like everyone else. I said what was necessary to join together, even when I felt separate. And after all of this, catastrophe came. Now I wander amid the debris, I am lawless, torn to pieces, alone and accepting to be so, resigned to my singularity and to my infirmities. And I must rebuild a truth-after having lived all my life in a sort of lie.”