Quotes About Reality

the actuality of thought is life

However, it is not the same with the subject matter, but, generally speaking, that which is true and better is naturally always easier to prove and more likely to persuade.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Sophocles said that he drew men as they ought to be; Euripides, as they are.

For none of the others can exist independently: substance alone is independent: for everything is predicated of substance as subject.

If, then, 'substance' is not attributed to anything, but other things are attributed to it, how does 'substance' mean what is rather than what is not?

Being will not have magnitude, if it is substance. For each of the two parts must be in a different sense.

It is, (10) then, clearly impossible for Being to be one in this sense.

Algunos creen q para ser amigos basta con querer, como si para estar sanos bastara con desear buena salud

Lastly (4) in each of his infinite bodies there would be already present infinite flesh and blood and brain—having a distinct existence, however, from one another, and no less real than the infinite bodies, and each infinite: which is contrary to reason.

Existentia nunquam ad essentiam rei pertinent.

If the poet's description be criticized as not true to fact, one may urge perhaps that the object ought to be as described—an answer like that of Sophocles, who said that he drew men as they ought to be, and Euripides as they were.

whenever a reasonable explanation comes to sight as to why a thing appears to be but is not true, this makes for greater trust in the truth.

Nobody's happy. What's happy? Happiness is over when the lights come on

the parrots were annoyingly arrogant. You could buy the most beautiful one in town, she observed, but that wouldn't make it love you. You could feed it, care for it and exclaim over its loveliness, but there was nothing to guarantee that it would stay home with you. There had to be a lesson there somewhere.

It makes more sense if you've lived it." A

Fairy tales thrive on black and white. In life, there's only grey – no bad guys, no good guys. You could be the Cheshire cat, Snow White, a troll or a pastry-making witch whose diet consists only of little kids, but you'll always be you.

And if you don't like that you can acquaint yourself with the axioms that neither you nor anybody else are the centre of the universe and that what you call complications are simply another name for life itself. Worry is life, and life is worry. And the absence of worry is death.

Philosophers have explained space. They have not explained time.

If you want to turn a vision into reality, you have to give 100% and never stop believing in your dream.

Als je jong bent, denk je dat er normale mensen bestaan, maar dat jij de pech hebt ze niet te kennen. Later kom je erachter dat dat onzin is, dat er geen normale mensen bestaan. Er bestaan alleen patiënten. Sommige patiënten weten zich staande te houden ten koste van andere patiënten en die noemen we daarom geen patiënten. Die noemen we geslaagd

Ze zei: 'Je denkt steeds weer dat jij de uitzondering bent.' 'Wie denkt dat?' 'Ik.' 'Dat denkt iedereen,' zei ik, 'daarom trouwen mensen, daarom maken ze kinderen, daarom gaan ze door met leven, omdat ze denken dat het voor iedereen geldt maar niet voor hen, omdat ze denken dat zij de uitzondering zijn.

People say that we're searching for the meaning of life. I don't think that's it at all. I think that what we're seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances within our own innermost and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.

It wasn't so easy like you think. Everybody was so starving and frightened, and tired they couldn't believe even what's in front of their eyes.