Quotes About Reality

Reality is always so obstructive.

I tell you this, my friend; all men are cowards. They dislike a fact except when it is so wrapped up in lies and sentiments that the sharp edge of it cannot hurt them. When a man tells the truth he his, depend upon it, a dangerous man.

but when you have been nourishing your soul on expectation, reality is apt to be disappointing.

I have a theory that I really want my kids to know - the only coloration that they make between dad being in films and reality is just a lot of people doing a lot of hard work.

The successful man is the one whose images correspond most closely to reality, because then his actions will lead to the results which he imagines. A man's failures depend upon the fact that his images do not correspond to reality, whether he is dealing with marriage, politics, business, or the horse races.

A great man is one who either helps to find out what the world is really like, or else tries to change the world to match his image. In both cases he is trying to bring images and reality closer together by changing one or the other.

A man in love is a man under the strong influence of a highly charged image which even if it is far different from the reality as other people see it, nevertheless guides his ideas, feelings, and behavior.

Awareness requires living in the here and now, and not in the elsewhere, the past or the future.

All memory is a form of fiction. But all fiction is a form of reality.

Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.

nothing in Nature is black or white, few solutions are clean and clear; rather, reality, and especially our models of it, possess shades of gray throughout.

never occurred to me that perhaps I wasn't responsible for everything that happened in the world.

In their natural habitats some of these species may be, like the golden-fronted bowerbird, easy to locate and observe but may nevertheless trick the biologist into treating them as "common" when they are really just "obvious," an important distinction.

A model is a simplification. It is an interpretation of reality that abstracts the aspects relevant to solving the problem at hand and ignores extraneous detail.

The map is not the territory. The man is not the file.

concentrate on knowing what is falsey, and then everything else you can consider truthy. Let's look at some examples of using these falsey values

To desire only happiness in a world undoubtedly tragic is to become inauthentic.

To be fake in this dreamy universe is to believe in actual authenticity and behave accordingly, and to be in tune with the real is to know it's all phony and to create, with a generous heart, your own sweet ruse.

It is a melancholy illusion of those who write books and articles that the printed word survives. Alas, it rarely does.

We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true they ruin our dreams.

One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in upholding the word against the evidence of the eyes. Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.

We can remember minutely and precisely only the things which never really happened to us.

To a man utterly without a sense of belonging, mere life is all that matters. It is the only reality in an eternity of nothingness, and he clings to it with shameless despair.

Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn't make sense, and that it doesn't make much difference anyway.