Quotes About Reality

In modern times, the idea of existential suffering has further weakened. Human life is no longer regarded as a realm of suffering but instead as a setting for the actualization of human happiness.

Pessimism regards this world as imperfect, but it does not deny everything. In these terms, Indian Buddhism is certainly pessimistic, for it denies that the reality of this world is anything more than transmigratory existence. But it has one clear purpose, liberation, and it sets out along a defined road, religious training. Transmigration and liberation from transmigration: these are the two wheels of the chariot of Indian Buddhism, indispensable to its view of human life.

Too much FANTASY loses REALITY, too much HOPE may seem somehow EMPTY.

There are three things that are real: God, human folly, and laughter. The first two are beyond our comprehension. So we must do what we can with the third. —John F. Kennedy

Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.

I have faith in the United States and our ability to make good decisions based on the facts.

I am old enough to know that a red carpet is just a rug.

No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.

The only reality you can be sure about is in your own perceptions. If the universe exists, it exists inside your own mind and the minds of others.

A perception that exists in the mind is often interpreted as a universal truth.

If only it were so easy. Real-world bad dreams are much worse.

il faut apprendre, par observation et raisonnement, à reconstituer le vrai des choses d'après les apparences

In love the individual goes beyond himself, beyond the narcissistic. In sex, you are really in a relationship with yourself via the mediation of the other. The other helps you to discover the reality of pleasure. In love, on the contrary, the mediation of the other is enough in itself.

A truth is not something that is constructed in a garden of roses.

Lacan savait que le théâtre est un réservoir capital quand il s'agit de comprendre le mécanisme qui transforme le réel en représentation et le désir en images.

4.23..If 'thought' means: instance of the subject in a truth-procedure, then there is no thought of this thought, because it contains no knowledge.

The world only hides on thing, says Clément Rosset, and that is that it has nothing to hide. It is sufficient onto itself for its own unveiling. Meaning only appears as the result of the representations and interpretations man may give to it.

We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease.

I am certain that a novelist is someone who attributes a different reality-value to the characters and events of his story than to those of 'real' life. A novelist is someone who confuses his own life with that of his characters.

If a rattlesnake thinks he can swallow a mouse, he probably can. Don't assume you think like a snake unless you are one.

I wish I could jump like that," he thought. "Some can and some can't. That's how it is.

I read somewhere that some people believe that the entire universe is a matrix of living thought. And I said, "Man, if that's not a definition of God, I don't know what is."

When you're in something that's successful, the subconscious fantasies you have about what your life could be start bursting through the surface -- I'll tell that son of a bitch when I get successful enough, or I'll buy this particular thing, or now they'll love me. It creates an enormous amount of expectant hopes and dreams, and it's terrible. Terrible.