Quotes About Reality

I don't believe you.' 'That doesn't make any difference. Whether you believe it or not doesn't change the facts. It doesn't depend on belief.

Critically, I realised that terrorists, who I had always imagined as horned devils, could be worryingly human.

Many people are so comfortable and rooted in this way of knowing reality that they are unable to engage in any meaningful dialogue, being so sure of the 'facts', and that their version of 'reality' is the true one and nothing else possibly could be.

La reconciliación sólo es posible sobre la base del conocimiento de la realidad

He reflected. 'I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!

woman is an eminently poetic reality since man projects onto her everything he is not resolved to be.

maintenant je n'ai plus de regrets,parce que les choses qui n'existent pas pour moi,il me semble qu'elles n'existent absolument pas.

People say you have to have faith because believing is irrational. So I end up thinking that the more irrational things seem, the more likely they are to be true.

Mais le pire, quand on habite une prison sans barreaux, c'est qu'on n'a pas même conscience des écrans qui bouchent l'horizon; j'errais à travers un épais brouillard, et je le croyais transparent. Les choses qui m'échappaient, je n'en entrevoyais même pas la présence.

Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.

The world brings itself into being before my eyes in an everlasting present: I grow used to its different aspects so quickly that it does not seem to me to change.

Life has made me discover the world as it is, that is, a world of suffering and oppression, of undernourishment for the majority of people, things that I didn't know when I was young and when I imagined that to discover the world was to discover something beautiful.

symbolism did not fall out of heaven or rise out of subterranean depths: it was elaborated like language, by the human reality…

Today it strikes me that the most important aspect of these conversations was not so much what we said as what we took for granted, and what in fact was not so at all. We were wrong about almost everything. An accurate character sketch must take these errors into account, since they expressed one kind of reality - our actual situation.

I was too enamored of truth ever to mourn lost illusions.

le parole fissano la verità solo dopo averla assassinata; lasciano sfuggire ciò che v'è in essa di più importante: la sua presenza.

Since we do not succeed in fleeing it, let us therefore try to look the truth in the face. Let us try to assume our fundamental ambiguity. It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our life that we must draw our strength to live and our reason for acting.

One night I summoned God, if He really existed, to show Himself to me. He didn't, and I never addressed another word to Him. In my heart of hearts I was very glad He didn't exist. I should have hated it if what was going on here below had had to end up in eternity.

I've done everything I wanted to do, writing books, learning about things, but I've been swindled all the same because it's never anything more.

Un existant n'est rien d'autre que ce qu'il fait; le possible ne déborde pas le réel, l'essence ne précède pas l'existence; dans sa pure subjectivité, l'être humain n'est rien. On le mesure à ses actes.

Todas las mujeres se creen diferentes; todas piensan que ciertas cosas no pueden sucederles, y todas ellas se equivocan.

Basta!' Seguí. Quería que se fuera; verdaderamente lo quería, era sincera. Sincera porque no creí que lo hiciera. Era como un espantoso psicodrama en el que uno juega a la verdad.

Si no soy sino un cuerpo, sólo un lugar al sol y el instante que mide mi suspiro, entonces heme aquí liberado de todas las inquietudes, los temores, las penas. Nada me conmueve, nada me importa. No estoy ligado sino a ese minuto que llena mi vida: ella sola es una presa tangible, una presencia. No existe sino la impresión del momento.

L'amore tra noi era reale, era solido, indistruttibile quanto la verità. Solo, c'era questo fatto del tempo che passava e io non me n'accorgevo. Il fiume del tempo, l'erosione operata dalle acque dei fiumi: ecco, il suo amore ha subito l'erosione delle acque del tempo. Ma allora, perché il mio no?