Quotes About Reality

This is not a real book. It does not deal with real people, nor should it be read by real people. But there are in the world so many real books already written for the benefit of real people, and there are still so many to be written, that I cannot believe that a little alien book such as this, written for the magically-inclined minority, can be considered a trespasser.

In fact, she behaved like most of us do when in love; she never thought of her beloved as a human being at all, but only as an image upon which to drape dreams.

though it was too true that life as she is lived has a way of being curiously different from life as described by novelists.

going to the kingdom of cocaine, it was going to Hollywood...

Wir sehen die Welt nicht wie ein Botaniker, der gleichzeitig Architekt, Arzt, Geologe und Kapitän ist. Das Kennen geschieht nicht so wie das Sehen, es verträgt sich nicht einmal allzugut damit, und es ist oft eine schlechtere Methode, um festzustellen, was es gibt.

Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

None of them seriously believed the stories they told themselves about themselves.

Virgil cheered me up with his usual gentle logic, helping me get some perspective larger than the pencil point of reality my focus had narrowed into.

long as a person will not raise his or her consciousness beyond the physical world to higher, spiritual realities, the soul's enslavement in darkness—whether darkness in the outer, physical world or in

Gnostic teachings speak of the reality and power of evil and its fundamental presence throughout manifest existence. They declare that while we may not be able to rid the world or ourselves of evil, we may, and indeed will, rise above it through gnosis.

Always and in all practices, he must visualize himself as the Holy Lady, hearing in mind that his appearance is the deity, that his speech is her mantra, and that his memory and mental constructs are her knowledge—that everything is an untrue illusion, a play of Reality.

Nulle part autant qu'ici on ne constate aussi nettement l'étonnante différence qui peut exister entre les récits faits à la même heure d'un seul et même événe- ment par plusieurs observateurs.

Just because your intuition can't fit it into one of the five senses, hardly means it doesn't exist.

most people don't plan past the honeymoon. But reality sets in when it gets down to dirty socks and what's for dinner.

The Victorians did not have some secret formula, since lost, about how to expect the best of marriage and still put up with the worst. Rather, they were much more accepting than we are today of a huge gap between rhetoric and reality, expectation and actual experience. In large part, this was because they had no other choice.

Contrary to popular opinion, 'Leave it to Beaver' was not a documentary.

Despite the rhetorical reverence our society accords motherhood and fatherhood, in reality the everyday work of parenting garners little social respect and even less practical support.

Adults raised in a narcissistic homes cling to the fantasy that they can somehow manipulate or control their parent/family of origin system to get the recognition and approval they require (that is, to get their needs met.) They had this fantasy as children, and they maintain it as adults. The reality, though, is that they had little control over their parent system as children and have little control over it now.

People will do whatever they can to keep their illusions intact," he said. "Then they justify it with a philosophy.

For some of us, it's safer to believe there's something wrong with us than to be aware of the reality of our lives.

I don't tell the truth, I tell what ought to be the truth.

For every moment of truth, there's confusion in life

Face the truth squarely. In politics that is always the best and the only correct attitude.

The motive force of history is truth and not lies.