Quotes About Reality

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.

Laughter is the only sane response to pathological lying.

If this isn't exactly what went down, it's certainly how it should have happened.

We tried it again and it didn't work out. Sour milk is always sour milk. When something goes bad it stays bad.You don't put sour milk in the refrigerator one day,and take it out the next and expect it to taste sweet.

can't blame a man for being human when human is all he'll ever be!

safety and love are both illusions!

Notice that your judgments of what exists are the same kind of judgments you make about how to live your life. There aren't two kinds of things we do: judge what exists and decide what we want to do about it. Fundamentally, there is one kind of thing we do: live our lives. And we can reflect on this activity more or less abstractly.

If you truly think there's a heaven when you die then your consciousness's last action is it to tell itself you're in heaven and it plays out your idea of heaven for you for eternity. If you think there's nothing after you die, then your consciousness tells you there's nothing, and it is all over.

What I think you think about what I want creates storms of behaviour that change what is.

When the realities of a fallen world hit us, we need room to worship the Lord in honest expressions of unedited grief.

What if all the myths and fairy tales were pointing to something that was not only true but also truer than anything we knew in this world, to a realm that was truer and more real?

True faith is not a leap in the dark; it's a leap into the light.* We shouldn't be afraid of the facts. If God is God, he is the God of reality and facts and science and history.

Don Quixote was for Bonhoeffer an important picture of the human condition.

The place where the questions about the reality of God and about the reality of the world are answered at the same time is characterized solely by the name: Jesus Christ. God

Today, Wilberforce University welcomes many of America's poorest and most underserved populations and transforms their educational dreams into realities.

But Bonhoeffer was no mere academic. For him, ideas and beliefs were nothing if they did not relate to the world of reality outside one's mind.

The place where the questions about the reality of God and about the reality of the world are answered at the same time is characterized solely by the name: Jesus Christ. God and the world are enclosed in this name . . . we cannot speak rightly of either God or the world without speaking of Jesus Christ. All concepts of reality that ignore Jesus Christ are abstractions.

Müntzer, like all utopianists, was divorced from reality and wished to be so divorced, thinking the reality of this world as something to be fled as soon as possible. All political and religious reform movements are tempted in the direction of cultishness and violence, and at the time of Luther, Müntzer was the one who led this charge over the cliff.

Wilberforce wrote some years later that it was as if he'd been all those years in a dream from which at last now he had been awakened.

If it turns out that the thing we believed in or wanted to believe in is not true and real, we may experience a momentary letdown, but in the end we will be in a far better place than if we had blindly clung to something that was really just wish-fulfillment

human beings were taken from the earth and don't just consist of thin air and thoughts.

Bonhoeffer was no mere academic. For him, ideas and beliefs were nothing if they did not relate to the world of reality outside one's mind.

Ideas and beliefs are nothing if they did not relate to the world of reality outside one's mind.

history comprises the subjective accounts of human beings; and from these subjective accounts we arrive at an "objective" truth—which is itself still somehow and to some extent subjective.