Quotes About Reality

One thing we might do is to try day by day to grasp something which is the simplest and yet the hardest thing for any of us to grasp: that the gospel is true; that growth in the Christian life is simply growth in seeing that the gospel is true; that Jesus Christ is the preeminent reality of all things.

FERDINAND: Look, what's that follows me? MALATESTE: Nothing, my lord. FERDINAND: Yes. MALATESTE: 'Tis your shadow. FERDINAND: Stay it; let it not haunt me. MALATESTE: Impossible, if you move, and the sun shine. FERDINAND: I will throttle it. [Throws himself upon his shadow.]

Search the heads of the greatest rivers in the world, you shall find them but bubbles of water.

Oft gay and honoured robes those tortures try: We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.

The blame culture that still prevails in the majority of businesses works against this, as it causes "false reality syndrome" or "I will tell you what I think you want to hear, or what will keep me out of trouble.

One of the artifices of Satan is, to induce men to believe that he does not exist.

SIR,—Although I sent the following narrative to an Edinburgh newspaper, with the editor of which I was well acquainted; yet he refused to give it publicity, on the ground that it was only a dream of the imagination: but if a man cannot be believed in what he hears and sees, what is he to be believed in?

What you seem so unwilling to accept, even now, is this: that the ideals which supported the old Republic had no correspondence to the fact of the old Republic; that the glorious word concealed the deed of horror; that the appearance of tradition and order cloaked the reality of corruption and chaos; that the call to liberty and freedom closed the minds, even of those who called, to the facts of privation, suppression, and sanctioned murder.

When he was much older, he was to look back upon his last two undergraduate years as if they were an unreal time that belonged to someone else, a time that passed, not in the regular flow to which he was used, but in fits and starts. One moment was juxtaposed against another, yet isolated from it, and he had the feeling that he was removed from time, watching as it passed before him like a great unevenly turned diorama.

So we are of the world, after all; we should have known that. We did know it, I believe; but we had to withdraw a little, pretend a little, so that we could—

You get born, and you nurse on lies, and you get weaned on lies, and you learn fancier lies in school. You live all your life on lies, and then maybe when you're ready to die, it comes to you—that there's nothing, nothing but yourself and what you could have done. Only you ain't done it, because the lies told you there was something else.

You think there's something here, something to find. Well, in the world you'd learn soon enough. You, too, are cut out for failure; not that you'd fight the world. You'd let it chew you up and spit you out, and you'd lie there wondering what was wrong. Because you'd always expect the world to be something it wasn't, something it had no wish to be.

It was a world of half-light in which they lived and to which they brought the better parts of themselves--so that, after a while, the outer world where people walked and spoke, where there was change and continual movement, seemed to them false and unreal. Their lives were sharply divided between the two worlds, and it seemed to them natural that they should live so divided.

In this early morning stillness, the events of the day seem far away and unreal. I know that the course of my life - of all our lives - has been changed. How do the others feel? Do they know? Do they know that before us lies a road at the end of which is either death or greatness? The two words go around in my head, around and around, until it seems they are the same.

One does not deceive oneself about the consequences of one's acts; one deceives oneself about the ease with which one can live with those consequences.

Before I was married, I had a hundred theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.

When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.

Reality is relative. Devils, evil spirits, witches and so on became real enough to the people who believed in them. Just as God is to people who believe in Him. When people live their lives by their beliefs objective reality is almost irrelevant.

When people live their lives by their beliefs objective reality is almost irrelevant. 'That's

You know, one of the most shocking things about it is to realize how easily we have lost a world that seemed so safe and certain.

As a securely dominant species you could afford to lose touch with reality, and amuse yourselves with abstractions

Sospecho que alguna vez oyó decir a alguien que la verdad nunca es simple y de ello dedujo que todo aquello que no es simple tiene que ser vedad a la fuerza.

When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.

Only half the story is true. The rest is necessary.