Quotes About Reality

There are no shortcuts in life - only those we imagine.

I want to die, stripped, by myself, of all fantasies. That's the goal. I want to feel what is real, at the end, and only what is real. Grip fiercely with my eyes all that is around me--the people of my intimate life, the objects in the room, without the evasions of fantasies.

Only the past is real.

Let's be honest. We all in our secret minds live elsewhere, or who could survive in this freakin' world?

The world doesn't make sense until you force it to.

Love is the only constant, the only reality, and when you accept and understand that you will know it.

Change is superficial. Transformation is deep. It alters our perception of reality and therefore causes everything in our life to shift. Transformation is what happens when we live our life rather than analyze it.

Scarecrow often would take me aside and explain that he lived by two simple rules. First, perception is reality. Second, trust but verify. Each of these rules, he was proud to say, he had learned during the most enlightened period in the history of the United States—1980 to 1988—from the most enlightened man alive during that period. Scarecrow believed Ronald Reagan was God, and at Morgan Stanley he wasn't alone.

When you live in a world that likes bad guys, the bad guys don't go away.

I was starting to realize the extent of the problem here: everyone is always lying to each other, and even when they're trying to tell the truth, it can still be misleading or wrong. In fact, it almost always is wrong from at least one angle. I mean, the truth is really just a better class of lie.

I was starting to realize the extent of the problem here: everyone is always lying to each other, and even when they're trying to tell the truth, it can still be misleading or wrong. In fact, it almost always is wrong from at least one angle. I mean, in a way, the truth is really just a better class of lie.

Children in America drew six-legged chickens because drumsticks came in packs of six, while adults drank milk from a carton, and recoiled at the sight of an udder. Their experience of the world was stunted, but it only fuelled their arrogance.

I realize that life is not a step to a better place: life IS the better place, right here and now. It's too good to be true—and it's real.

certainties is putting faith in our imagination rather than in God's. It is like me demanding an explanation from Lucy in that

God's only in your head!" my answer is, "Yeah, whatever. What isn't?

Sanity, remember, does not mean living in the same world as everyone else; it means living in the real world.

To overlook God's presence is not simply to be irreligious: it is a kind of insanity, like overlooking anything else that is actually there.

Atheists must make a positive case that only material things exist. That's why instead of debating "Does God exist?" I prefer to debate the question "What better explains reality: atheism or theism?

The message of the steeple is one that contradicts the message of the New Testament. Christians do not have to reach into the heavens to find God. He is here! With the coming of Immanuel, God is with us (see Matthew 1:23). And with His resurrection, we have an indwelling Lord. The steeple defies these realities.

Some people have the experience of being accused of lying when they do not think that they have lied. Circle a number to show what percentage of the time this happens to you. [question from the Dissociative Experiences Scale]

Stop lying. There isn't enough time left.

The seemingly worthy causes of "Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité" (Liberty, Equality, Fraternity) were in reality the Illuminati agenda.

We should all realize that we can only talk about the bad forgeries, the ones that have been detected; the good ones are still hanging on the walls

The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.