Quotes About Reality

The seeker of God is the real lover of vidya, unchangeable truth; all else is avidya, relative knowledge.

The most baleful mischiefs may be expected from the unmanly conduct of not daring to face truth because it is unpleasing.

The secret of theory is that truth does not exist.

A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!

It's all a quilt of fairy tales with a patch here and there of truth.

That's why I always recommend a psychedelic experience because it makes you realize that all you've learned is in fact just learned and not necessarily the truth.

But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.

While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.

The bird of truth would not be able to fly if it weren't for the air of lies we breathe.

The only objective truth that photographs offer is the assertion that somebody or something... was somewhere and took a picture.

Truth is in things, and not in words.

The lies are in the dialogue, the truth is in the visuals.

Academic training in beauty is a sham. We have been so deceived, but so well deceived that we can scarcely get back even a shadow of the truth.

Confrontation simply means meeting the truth head-on.

You don't believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they're true.

Like" and "like" and "like"--but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing?

I'm interested in time, fame, death, beauty, truth, all those things.

For real human beings, the only realism is an embodied realism.

Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.

It's my experience that you really can't lose when you try the truth.

Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.

People make their own reality. That was what Praxis had taught him years ago. A hundred people can witness the exact same event, and give two hundred and three different accountings of it.

As the saying goes, truth is stranger than fiction. But only when the reality has not been subsumed by foamy legends and fantasies that radiate outward from the actual event.

Everything looked and sounded unreal. Nothing was what it is. That's what I wanted - to be alone with myself in another world where truth is untrue and life can hide from itself.