Quotes About Reality

Writing is survival. Not to write, for many of us, is to die. You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

A man who walks in the sight of God is more interested in his inner reality than his outer reputation.

Those who think godly living makes them invulnerable to trouble are living in a fantasy world. - 2 Timothy 3:12

Just because everyone believes something to be true, doesn't make it truth

One man's famine makes another man's feast.

Even by common wisdom, there seem to be both people and objects in my dream that are outside myself, but clearly they were created in myself and are part of me, they are mental constructs in my own brain.

Hoewel we de illusie hebben dat we beelden met hoge resolutie ontvangen van onze ogen, stuurt de oogzenuw slechts contouren en aanwijzingen over interessante punten in ons blikveld naar het brein. We 'hallucineren' eigenlijk de wereld vanuit ons corticale geheugen.

Our ability to create models—virtual realities—in our brains, combined with our modest-looking thumbs, has been sufficient to usher in another form of evolution: technology. That development enabled the persistence of the accelerating pace that started with biological evolution. It will continue until the entire universe is at our fingertips.

Dreams are real while they last; can we say more of life? —HAVELOCK ELLIS

Even though we think we see the world so fully, what we are receiving is really just hints

Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world. —ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

Yes, well, the subjective experience is the opposite of the objective reality

crees que vas a tener amigos que son de una manera y acabas con gente que es justo lo contrario.

También es cierto que se dejó encandilar, como tantos otros, por la engañosa armonía de la derrota, por el encanto y el olor de esas flores que se marchitan hermosas en la imaginación pero que se pudren siniestras en las manos

Dicen que todo lo que sube baja y dicen que todo puede reemplazarse y en general dicen todo tipo de tonterías.

Se llamaba Mónica y era morena. Y tenía su vida, su novio, todas esas cosas que tiene la gente. Y no era, y esto Sebastián querría dejarlo muy claro, una musa ni una maga, ni una bruja ni un recuerdo, ni nada de esas cosas con las que la literatura suprime a menudo a las mujeres.

If everything that looks like love really were love, my God, this would be a different and better world and even the darkest nightmares would be followed by unbearably happy days.

Ay la ficción que daño hace, y Sebastián debería haberlo sabido, viniendo de un país cuyo héroe más grande lleva un orinal en la cabeza. No leas tanto, le decían de niño, y no hizo caso, y así le ha ido. La ficción puede muy bien instalarse en el alma de un hombre hasta destruirla. Sebastián había visto y admirado a lo largo de su vida, hombres capaces de hacer cosas en el mundo real e incapacitados para la ficción.

Los niños no tiene nada de mágico, la mayoría de las veces, son la misma mierda en dimensiones reducidas

No es estúpida esa fe que la gente deposita en el pasado, cómo si el pasado fuera más cierto que el presente o el futuro?

Propositions can only say how things are, not what they are.

meaningful propositions are limited to picturing states of affairs in the world, and value

His [God] ways are how we swim with the current of reality, how we cut with the grain, how we get home by the right road. — (Marriage and the Mystery of the Gospel)

Officially, blacks who labored for the British received wages; in reality, they received little or nothing after deductions were made for their provisions