Quotes About Reality

If the hunters think we do all things by chants and spells, they may believe so -- it does not hurt them.

No matter how much you plan for it, the real thing seems curiously, well, unreal.

But which race? Does there exist a German race? Has it ever existed? Will it ever exist? Reality, myth, or hoax of the theorists? Ah well, we respond, a Germanic race does not exist. Various movements. Curiosity. Stupor. We repeat. Does not exist. We don't say so. Scientists say so. Hitler says so.

Race! It is a feeling, not a reality: ninety-five percent, at least, is a feeling. Nothing will ever make me believe that biologically pure races can be shown to exist today. Amusingly enough, not one of those who have proclaimed the "nobility" of the Teutonic race was himself a Teuton. Gobineau was a Frenchman, Chamberlain, an Englishman; Woltmann, a Jew; Lapouge, another Frenchman.

Race? It is a feeling, not a reality. Ninety-five per cent, at least. Nothing will ever make me believe that biologically pure races can be shown to exist today.Race? It is a feeling, not a reality. Ninety-five per cent, at least. Nothing will ever make me believe that biologically pure races can be shown to exist today.

Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.

Palabras hermosas realidad prosaica y miserable. Los ciegos serían felices en este país, que para la lengua es paraíso y para los ojos infierno.

Verdaderamente —decía él—, ¿por qué no ha de ser una cosa más real que la otra?¿Por qué no ha de ser sueño lo del día y vida efectiva lo de la noche? Es cuestión de nombres y de que diéramos en llamar dormir a lo que llamamos despertar, y acostarse al levantarse...

Doña Flora de Cisniega era una vieja que se empeñaba en permanecer joven: tenía más de cincuenta años; pero ponía en práctica todos los artificios imaginables para engañar al mundo, aparentando la mitad de aquella cifra aterradora.

El verdadero amor, el sólido y durable, nace del trato; lo demás es invención de los poetas, de los músicos y demás gente holgazana.

I have reached the point in life where I no longer accept false hopes, the palliative care of counterfeit wisdom.

el mundo es un gran código que debemos descifrar. No me cabe duda de que hay hombres que nacen con el don de ver la esencia de las cosas y que tienen un conocimiento secreto de la verdadera naturaleza de la materia y sus posibilidades.

Creo que en el interior de cada hombre cuelga un retrato estilizado de la mujer ideal, un modelo con el que comparar a esta o a aquella mortal de carne y hueso que sostiene entre sus brazos.

Good" and "bad" describe the subjective feelings we have toward semothing; the words "true" or "false" deal with reality, regardless of our feelings.

I first wanted to be a psychiatrist. I decided against that in medical school when I discovered that psychiatrists didn't, in reality, do what they did on TV.

I may not be quite a real being. Je ne suis peut-être pas tout à fait un être réel.

Could if be that there is something dubious about hope and that when hope has disappeared from a man's life his life assumes a more severe and positive character? Could it be that life seems so much the more real when all illusions have vanished, just as the contours of a mountain ridge appear more clearly on the horizon when the clouds are gone?

I believe that nothing in newspapers is ever true," said Madame Phoebus. "And that is why they are so popular," added Euphrosyne; "the tast of the age being so decidedly for fiction.

So you see, my dear Coningsby, that the world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.

There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

In this world, nothing is certain except death and taxes.

Nothing is certain except death and taxes.

What you seem to be, be really.