Quotes About Reality

Falling in love was for suckers who were in denial & hoping for a fairy tale.

In his powerful essay 2 Contents, 2 Realities, Francis Schaeffer proposes four things that should mark a gospel-created church: sound doctrine, honest answers to honest questions, true spirituality, and the beauty of human relationships.

But it can be extremely painful to learn the fear of the Lord. It is death to our narcissistic egos and self-assured opinions and superior neutrality. But we do not change for the better by turning inward. We change as we turn outward and upward to the Lord with an awakened sense of his sheer reality, his moral beauty, his eternal grandeur, infinitely above us but relevant to us.

Surprisingly, the Bible moves from cosmic majesty in Genesis 1 to a common everyday reality in Genesis 2: a young couple falling in love. So we might wonder if marriage is out of its depth here alongside the creation of the universe. Or could it be that the Bible sees in marriage more than we typically do? For now, we will put that question on hold, as we attend first to what Genesis 2:15–25 clearly teaches about marriage.

if we strive to re-create reality more to our liking, we will trend not toward freedom and hope but toward disgusting and impious degradations, and there is no depth to which we will not fall even further. But

But if we humbly bend to the sorrows and buffetings of this life, trusting God, we will be surprised to discover beauty where God has hidden it—not in our fantasies but in his realities. God's

What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.

Existence is sweet, life is hard.

What you remember, it's real. It doesn't matter how accurate your memory of something is, it is real to you. What you perceive as reality is reality.

But should you ever come to a time when you need to say something upon my behalf, say this, 'The last truth is that there is no magic.

The only reality consists of human beings trying to solve difficult problems. Their results, which seem to be solutions to some of those problems, we call science. Science has no life of its own. It does not deserve to be spoken of as an entity in its own right. There are only people, whom we call scientists, and their accomplishments are severely limited by their quite meager abilities. Meager, when viewed in comparison with the magnitude of the problems they attack.

we each construct our own reality by interpreting the external world on the basis of our unique experiences with it and our beliefs about those experiences.

Niciodat? realitatea nu mi-a sc?pat mai mult ca acum. Ea imi curge printre degete, e ca o ap? pe care n-o pot opri în c?u?ul palmei.

Hope isn't real by definition, is it? It's just a state of mind....

The soul began as unquestionably real and the self ended as arguably a fiction.

Who needs eyes when you can hallucinate?

True stories deal with hunger, imaginary ones with love.

The world is not what it seems—but it isn't anything else, either.

Il y a des rêves qui se déroulent comme des incidents sans importance, de la vie éveillée on ne retiendrait pas des choses comme ça et cependant ils intéressent lorsqu'on les saisit au matin se poussant en désordre contre la porte des paupières.

We are accustomed to the idea that the truth of things may be neither pleasant nor comforting; we are less accustomed to the idea that the truth may be unfruitful.

It is intentionality that tears the seamless fabric of the causally closed material world.

Intentionality highlights the mystery of what brains are, ultimately, supposed to do; namely, to make other items, indeed worlds, appear to someone.

But even those who locate the roots of consciousness in the brain should still recognize that brains together create a space that cannot be stuffed back into the brain.

There are two sides to every story but only one truth.