Quotes About Reality

Everyone who is educated today wants to sit at a comfortable desk under a fan and live in an air-conditioned house surrounded by a garden, coming and going in an American car as wide as the street. If we do not tear out this disease by the roots we shall have with us a bourgeoisie that is in no way connected with the reality of our life...

I am no Othello, Othello was a lie.

But writing and language can do more than just program you. It can manifest reality, as Burroughs explores in his own writing. Burroughs suggests that the act of writing manifests reality because writing manifests the future.

A man who was not who he appeared to be needed to be ever mindful of who he really was.

What was once obvious to them was no longer quite as obvious. Why was it that humans lost sight of truth so quickly?

The world didn't like to look at the dark underside very often. But that didn't change the ugliness; it only ensured that those who perpetuated the ugliness were left alone to kill and maim and rape.

We call our religion the Great Romance, but really it feels more like a list of rules than anything similar to the Great Romance we once had. But now I think the knowledge of Elyon is starting to work its way into me again--in both realities...If Elyon's real there, surely God must be real here.

The only barrier to apprehending the truth is our own unwillingness to see the world as it is instead of how we prefer it to be.

What we see may deceive us - the skin may be deceptive - but there has to be one truth, right? It can't all just be a jumble of perceptions. So what really exists out there, beyond what we can see? We're so dependent on the surfaces of what we see. But if we could see past the skin of this world...

The temptation to forget is woven into the fabric of these... costumes.

Never mistake a woman as an opportunity for bliss.

Pain was not God's plan for this life. It is a reality, but it is not part of the plan." I

He didn't think of the rot as a disease. His mind was sharp, but he'd been swallowed by lies that had long ago persuaded him that this was the way all good men should look and move and feel. Pain was natural. The smell of rotting flesh was more a scent of wholesome humanity than a stench.

He knew that behind the skin of this world, there was another. And in that world the children were laughing.

Some physicists postulate that the past, present, and future all exist simultaneously and that we simply experience whatever present slice of the universe we happen to be in at the moment.

How could she, who'd drowned and found new life, question the reality of Elyon now, just because the world was dark?

Actually, if you think about it, everything is really no more than idea. The past is nothing more than a memory, which is one kind of idea. The future is still a hope, another kind of idea. The present is fleeting and becomes a memory before you can put your hands on it. All ideas.

Her fear was gone, not only mostly, but completely, because it had been sustained by an illusion that was no longer part of her reality. The

Is the death of the will any less painful than the death of the body? Call it figurative if it makes you comfortable, but in reality the death of the will is far more traumatic than the death of the body.

Why would this teacher not be afraid in the face of such a terrible threat? Unless what he saw and what the others saw were two different realities. Where they saw a threat, he slept in peace. This was perhaps his greatest miracle, much greater than the healing of a rash.

most of the world believes that most of what actually happens, happens without our being able to see it. That's a religious mainstay.

Kurtlar geliyor diye ba??rma o yalanc? çoban gibi,' demekteydim gerçekte. BaÅŸka düÅŸünceler, ürpertici tan?d?k düÅŸünceler Geldiler gerili cambaz ipini geçip: 'Kurtlar geliyor diye ba??rma. Yoksa anlayamam, duymam Ä°ÅŸler gerçekten kötü gittiÄŸinde.

What happens in the heart simply happens.

It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial. The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.