Quotes About Reality

Men will clutch at illusions when they have nothing else to hold to.

When everything gets answered, it's fake.

What probably distorts everything in life is that one is convinced that one is speaking the truth because one says what one thinks.

Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.

He tells so many lies that he convinces himself after a while that he's telling the truth. He just doesn't recognize truth or falsehood.

Truth contains a vital principle and will manifest itself.

Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as is this truth of the Incarnation.

Perception is reality. If you are perceived to be something, you might as well be it because that's the truth in people's minds.

There may always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we've arrived at.

The reason why most people are frustrated is because a lie cannot be turned into a truth.

You know there's no crooked politicians. There's never a lie because there is never any truth.

Fantastic truths perish slower... Sappho's moon will survive the moon of Armstrong. Different computations are necessary.

But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken.

I am a passionate lover of the snapshot, because of all photographic images it comes closest to truth.

The truth must essentially be regarded as in conflict with this world; the world has never been so good, and will never become so good that the majority will desire the truth.

Most people can accept the truth only in the form of a lie.

There are two kinds of truth. There are real truths, and there are made up truths.

Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slips through your fingers and is lost.

When we start to suffer, it tells us something very valuable. It means that we are not seeing the truth, and we are not relating from the truth. It's a beautiful pointer. It never fails.

It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth.

What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.

Any given man sees only a tiny portion of the total truth, and very often, in fact almost ... perpetually, he deliberately deceives himself about that little precious fragment as well.

People hate the truth. Luckily, the truth does not care.