Quotes About Reality

Your pants didn't get smaller, Mommy, I assured her. Your butt got bigger.

If it looks like a duck, and it quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck.

As children grow, they have an increasing need to orient: to have a sense of who they are, of what is real, why things happen, what is good, what things mean. To fail to orient is to suffer disorientation, to be lost psychologically—a state our brains are programmed to do almost anything to avoid. Children are utterly incapable of orienting by themselves. They need help. Attachment provides that help. The first business

Popular disregard, even disdain, for demonstrable truth is the most dangerous thing that can happen to a democracy.

On the throne of the world, any delusion can become fact.

In fact, life itself is a contradiction if only because birth is the direct cause, in every single case, of death

I say his version because there is no such thing as a true account of anything. Each sees the world from his own vantage point. Needless to say, a throne is not the best place from which to view anything except the backs of prostrate men.

I am afraid that as people grow old there is a tendency for them to believe that what the past *ought* to have been it was.

But like so many others nowadays, poor Julian wanted to believe that man's life is profoundly more significant than it is. His sickness was the sickness of our age. We want so much not to be extinguished at the end that we will go to any length to make conjuror-tricks for one another simply to obscure the bitter, secret knowledge that it is our fate not to be.

True history, said Hearst, with a smile that was, for once, almost charming, is the final fiction. I thought even you knew that.

There is no need for us to know what we cannot know. There is so much for us to deal with here.

But then almost everyone nowadays had two lives, his own and his life at the movies.

Gözler kapal?yken, gerçek dünya baÅŸlar.

Die Gedanken sind weder Dinge der Außenwelt noch Vorstellungen. Ein drittes Reich muß anerkannt werden. Was zu diesem gehört, stimmt mit den Vorstellungen darin überein, daß es nicht mit den Sinnen wahrgenommen werden kann, mit den Dingen aber darin, daß es keines Trägers bedarf, zu dessen Bewußtseinsinhalte es gehört.

Bringing fortune to our house! Making Fruitless Mountain bloom! You're always wishing to do impossible things! Stop believing stories and stop wasting your time.

They can print statistics and count the populations in hundreds of thousands, but to each man a city consists of no more than a few streets, a few houses, a few people. Remove those few and a city exists no longer except as a pain in the memory, like a pain of an amputated leg no longer there.

What have we all got to expect that we allow ourselves to be so lined with disappointment?

You should dream more. Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

They haven't left us much to believe in, have they?--even disbelief. I can't believe in anything bigger than a home or vaguer than a human being.

It didn't matter anyway...he wasn't made for peace, he couldn't believe in it. Heaven was a word: hell was something he could trust.

For God's sake stop making people in your image. Harry was real. He wasn't just your hero and my lover. He was Harry. He was in a racket. He did bad things. What about it? He was the man we knew.

Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.

For a moment I had felt elation as on the instant of waking before one remembers.

A romantic is usually afraid in case reality doesn't come up to expectations.