Quotes About Reality

She was seeing the brand of pain and fear on the faces of people, and the look of evasion that refuses to know it–they seemed to be going through the motions of some enormous pretense, acting out a ritual to ward off reality, letting the earth remain unseen and their lives unlived, in dread of something namelessly forbidden–yet the forbidden was the simple act of looking at the nature of their pain and questioning their duty to bear it.

You have destroyed all that which you held to be evil and achieved all that which you held to be good. Why, then, do you shrink in horror from the sight of the world around you? That world is not the product of your sins, it is the product and the image of your virtues. It is your moral ideal brought into reality in its full and final perfection. You have fought for it, you have dreamed of it, and you have wished it, and I-I am the man who has granted you your wish. John Galt's Speech

Logic rests on the axiom that existence exists. Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification.

The Council of Scholars has said that we all know the things which exist and therefore the things which are not known by all do not exist.

The purpose of philosophy is not to help men find a meaning in life, but to prove to them that there isn't any

Non-thinking is an act of annihilation, a wish to negate existence, an attempt to wipe out reality. But existence exists; reality is not to be wiped out, it will merely wipe out the wiper. By refusing to say 'It is,' you are refusing to say 'I am.' By suspending your judgment, you are negating your person. When a man declares: 'Who am I to know?'- he is declaring: 'Who am I to live?

She had forgotten every problem, person and event behind her; they had always been clouded in her sight, to be hurried past, to be brushed aside, never final, never quite real. This was reality, she thought, this sense of clear outlines, of purpose, of lightness, of hope. This was the way she had expected to live—she had wanted to spend no hour and take no action that would mean less than this.

Reality is that which exists; the unreal does not exist; the unreal is merely that negation of existence which is the content of a human consciousness when it attempts to abandon reason. Truth is the recognition of reality; reason, man's only means of knowledge, is his only standard of truth.

Your mind is your only judge of truth--and if others dissent your verdict, reality is the final court of appeal. John Galt

She heard the words; she understood the meaning; she was unable to make it real—to grant the respect of anger, concern, opposition to a nightmare piece of insanity that rested on nothing but people's willingness to pretend to believe that it was sane.

From the first extortion he had accepted, from the first directive he had obeyed, he had given them cause to believe that reality was a thing to be cheated, that one could demand the irrational and someone somehow would provide it.

It seemed natural; natural to the moment's peculiar reality that was sharply clear, but cut off from everything, immediate, but disconnected, like a bright island in a wall of fog, the heightened, unquestioning reality one feels when one is drunk.

The fear you let build up in your mind is worse than the situation that actually exists. He

He realized that when he had been afraid to change he had been holding on to the illusion of Old Cheese that was no longer there. So

He realized that when he had been afraid to change he had been holding on to the illusion of Old Cheese that was no longer there.

what you are afraid of is never as bad as what you imagine. The fear you let build up in your mind is worse than the situation that actually exists. He

when he was afraid to changed he had been holding on to the illusion of Old Cheese that was no longer there

Avoid Believing Things Are Better Than They Really Are When You Are On A Peak, Or Worse Than They Really Are When You Are In A Valley. Make Reality Your Friend.

?i?u mà ng??i ta s? hãi th?t ra ch?ng ??n ná»—i quá t?i t? nhÆ° ng??i ta th??ng t??ng t??ng ra. Ná»—i s? hãi mà ng??i ta c? ?? lá»›n d?n lên trong tâm trí còn Ä'áng s? hÆ¡n nhi?u so vá»›i thá»±c t?.

The fear you let build up in your mind is worse than the situation that actually exist.

The fear you let build up in your mind is worse than the situation that actually exists.

No es lo que no sabes lo que te mete en problemas. Es lo que sabes con certeza pero que no es verdad.»

El temor que se acumula en la mente es mucho peor que la situación que existe en realidad.

Your ego can make you arrogant on the Peak, and fearful in the Valley. It keeps you from seeing what is real. Your ego distorts the truth.