Quotes About Reality

Der Wirklichkeit ist mit Logik nur zum Teil beizukommen.

Reality can be only partially attacked by logic.

Die Liebe ist ein Wunder, das immer wieder möglich, das Böse eine Tatsache, die immer vorhanden ist.

Meldungen stürzen die Welt nie um. Das tun die Tatsachen, die wir nun einmal nicht ändern können, da sie schon geschehen sind, wenn die Meldungen eintreffen. Die Meldungen regen die Welt nur auf, man gewöhne sie sich deshalb so weit als möglich ab.

News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.

Everything that is necessary is also easy. You just have to accept it. And the most necessary, the most natural matter on this planet is death.

When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words.

Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality.

Necessity is not an established fact, but rather an interpretation.

We operate with nothing but things which do not exist, with lines, planes, bodies, atoms, divisible time, divisible space -- how should explanation even be possible when we first make everything into an image, into our own image!

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

What we do in dreams we also do when we are awake: we invent and fabricate the person with whom we associate -- and immediately forget we have done so.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

Love is the state in which man sees things most widely different from what they are. The force of illusion reaches its zenith here, as likewise the sweetening and transfiguring power. When a man is in love he endures more than at other times; he submits to everything.

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep the truth is that they are not even shallow.

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.

Faith, indeed, has up to the present not been able to move real mountains.... But it can put mountains where there are none.

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of the truth than lies.

Convictions are the more dangerous enemy of truth than lies.

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

The I think, I am , is, since Descartes, the basic mistake of all knowledge; thinking is not my thinking, and being is not my being, for everything is only of God or of the totality.