Quotes About Reality

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

He that lives upon hope will die farting.

There are in life real evils enough and it is folly to afflict ourselves with imaginary ones.

nothing is certain in life except death and taxes

Mais dons ce monde, il n'y a rien d'assure que le mort et les impots.

He that lives upon hopes will die fasting.

I cannot boast of much success in acquiring the reality of this virtue, but I had a good deal with regard to the appearance of it.

which we once esteemed truths, were errors; and that others, which we had esteemed errors, were real truths.

element that makes the record real and brings the story

Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.

But down through the centuries, man has developed a mind that separates him from the world of reality, the world of natural laws. This mind tries too hard, wears itself out, and ends up weak and sloppy. Such a mind, even if of high intelligence, is inefficient. It drives down the street in a fast-moving car and thinks its at the store, going over a grocery list. Then it wonders why accidents occur.

You'd be surprised how many people violate this simple principle every day of their lives and try to fit square pegs into round holes, ignoring the clear reality that Things Are As They Are.

As you grow up, and you'll find this, you keep getting involved with larger and larger illusions that take longer and longer to fall away. The great hope is eventually to find a delusion that will outlast your life.

Realism is the trend.

The world is a sewer of lies. We're all up to our necks in the sweet shit of it.

They're always wrong in the movies.

DENIAL Defense mechanism in which the existence of unpleasant realities is disavowed; refers to keeping out of conscious awareness any aspects of external reality that, if acknowledged, would produce anxiety.

Nothing is as it seems. Seeing is not believing. Sometimes... you have to feel, touch, experience... and use your intelligence.

Politicians are bound to indicate what they would hope to do if they are elected to parliament, and that is a perfectly legitimate means of securing support--but they are less ready to admit that it may be impossible to fulfil their commitments once elected.

Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.

She was different and the same, and I had known her insofar as you can really know anyone, which is to say not much.

The practice of the presence of the Lord begins when Jesus becomes more real to us than our problems, our families, our troubles, and even more real than life itself. At that moment, it is all about Jesus.

In fact, scientific results are a careful attempt to objectively measure reality, and although they may be refined over time, they are always our best hope of getting at the truth.

Documentaries shouldn't just reflect the world: they should try and explain why reality is like it is.