Quotes About Reality

And if, indeed, there is nothing beyond the corner? Who can affirm if beyond so-called 'reality' anything exists at all? Beyond a reality that I have probably created? As long as I'm steeped in this reality up to my neck, as long as it is sufficient for me—everything is tolerable. But what would happen if I wanted one day to lean out of my safe environment and glance beyond its borders?

People and events don't disappoint us, our models of reality do. It is my model of reality that determines my happiness or disappointments.

Art can bring us consolation as individuals," he said, "but it is powerless against reality.

But theoretical, imagined suffering is not what distresses a man and destroys his peace of mind. Only what you have seen with pitying eyes can really shake you.

The instinct of self-deception in human beings makes them try to banish from their minds dangers of which at the bottom they are perfectly aware by declaring them nonexistent, and a warning such as mine against cheap optimism was bound to prove particularly unwelcome at a moment when a sumptuously laid supper was awaiting for us in the next room.

In the last analysis it seems likely that they were wiser than I, all those friends in Vienna, because they suffered everything only when it really happened, whereas I had already suffered the disaster in advance in my fantasy, and then again when it became reality.

Çünkü sadece kendi kaderlerini bir gizem olarak yaÅŸayabilenlerin gerçek anlamda yaÅŸad?klar?na inan?yorum.

And it is only delusion, and not knowledge, that bestows happiness.

Her ÅŸey olmas? gerektiÄŸi gibi olmuÅŸtu; çünkü baz? insanlar dünyaya aÅŸk için gelmezler, kavuÅŸman?n ac? verici mutluluklar?n? ta??yamayacak kadar zay?f olduklar? için onlarda sadece beklentinin kutsal ürpertisi vard?r.

Mas no espírito, há lugar para todas as oposições; mesmo o que nunca triunfa, na realidade, conserva um dinamismo eficaz, e são precisamente os sonhos que nao se podem efectivar os que se mostram mais invencíveis.

dreams are like delicate little white flowers that will be blown away at the first breath of reality?

DeÄŸerli olan her zaman için gerçeÄŸin yar?s? deÄŸil, tamam?d?r.

goodness and truth have never yet succeeded in curing humanity or even a single human being.

Ama ne kadar soyut görünürlerse görünsünler, düÅŸünceler de bir dayanak noktas?na gereksinim duyarlar, yoksa kendi çevrelerinde anlams?zca dönmeye baÅŸlarlar; onlar da hiçliÄŸe katlanamaz.

El placer no está nunca en la claridad y en la prudencia, siempre en la embriagadez, en la superabundancia, en la ilusión; un brote de locura corresponde siempre a toda vida verdadera.

YaÅŸad?klar?n?n bir düÅŸ olduÄŸunu hissetti yaln?zca; mutluluk ya da mutsuzluk, insanlar ya da yaln?zl?k, geçmiÅŸ ya da gelecek bir düÅŸtü.

Neyin gerçek, neyin yanl?? olduÄŸunu öyle uzaktan, insanlar?n sana anlatt?klar?na bakarak nas?l bilebilirsin ki?

Non vi è dubbio che una figura eroica, per il fatto solo della sua esistenza, domina per decenni e per secoli la vita spirituale. Nella vita dei fatti e della realtà, nella sfera della politica, ben di rado sono le figure eccezionali, gli uomini dalle idee pure, a decidere: decide invece la specie molto più meschina, ma più abile, degli uomini di sfondo.

Hiçbir ÅŸeyin benim için gerçekleÅŸmediÄŸi, ama yine de her ÅŸeyin bana dahil olduÄŸu duygusunu ta??yordum yaln?zca; ilgisiz kalsam da, çok derin ve çok gerçek ÅŸeyler tad?yor olmak müthiÅŸ mutluluk veren bir duyguydu, ruhumun en canl? kayna??n? oluÅŸturur, tan?mad???m yerlerde ÅŸehvet gibi üstüme çökerdi.

Seul le malheur procure une vision large et profonde des réalités de ce monde.

Pero justo eso constituye el signo distintivo de una voluntad demoníaca, el transformar en realidad lo imposible.

What a mercy, I thought, that the crippled, the maimed, those whom Fate has cheated, at least in sleep have no knowledge of the shapeliness or unshapeliness of their bodies, that there at least that kindly deceiver, the dream, reveals their form to them as a thing of beauty and symmetry, that at least in the nebulous world of slumber the sufferer can escape the curse to which he is physically chained!

We are happy when people/things conform and unhappy when they don't. People and events don't disappoint us, our models of reality do. It is my model of reality that determines my happiness or disappointments.

There are some people who can never see a little cloud of fantasy float across the horizon of their dreams without building a heavy castle in the air upon it, and bringing it to earth.