Quotes About Reality

La vida se extiende de momento en momento en una infinitud prodigiosa. Nada puede ser más real que lo que supones serlo. El cosmos es lo que quiera que pienses que es y en modo alguno podría ser otra cosa, mientras tú seas tú y yo sea yo. Vives en los frutos de tu acción es la cosecha de tu pensamiento.

Dreams have always expanded our understanding of reality by challenging our boundaries of the real, the possible.

There is a world of difference between knowing something to be true in your head and experiencing the reality in your life.

Let us settle ourselves, and work and wedge our feet downwards through the mud and slush of opinion and tradition, and pride and prejudice, appearance and delusion, through the alluvium which covers the globe, through poetry and philosophy and religion, through church and state, through Paris and London, through New York and Boston and Concord, till we come to a hard bottom that rocks in place which we can call reality and say, This is and no mistake.

If you stand right fronting and face-to-face to a fact, you will see the sun glimmer on both its surfaces, as if it were a scimitar, and feel its sweet edge dividing you through the heart and marrow, and so you will happily conclude your mortal career.

Life is real, life is earnest, and the grave is not its goal.

How can you hide from what never goes away?

The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.

You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.

The truth of art lies in its power to break the monopoly of established reality to define what is real.

Art breaks open a dimension inaccessible to other experience, a dimension in which human beings, nature, and things no longer stand under the law of the established reality principle...The encounter with the truth of art happens in the estranging language and images which make perceptible, visible, and audible that which is no longer, or not yet, perceived, said, and heard in everyday life.

Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its jagged edges.

Truth is in things, and not in words.

for there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.

But truth is like a thrashing-machine; tender sensibilities must keep out of the way.

Methinks that what they call my shadow here on earth is my true substance.

It is—or seems to be—a wise sort of thing, to realise that all that happens to a man in this life is only by way of joke, especially his misfortunes, if he have them. And it is also worth bearing in mind, that the joke is passed round pretty liberally & impartially, so that not very many are entitled to fancy that they in particular are getting the worst of it.

Reality outran apprehension; Captain Ahab stood upon his quarter-deck.

Wild rumours abound, wherever there is any adequate reality for them to cling to.

and very probably he had long since come to the sage and sensible conclusion that a man's religion is one thing, and this practical world quite another.

For this is one of those disheartening instances where truth requires full as much bolstering as error.

Over Descartian vortices you hover.

there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.

The park achieved a kind of reality. Like these virtual reality games the children are playing with. I told them we were doing this 40 years ago! Disneyland is virtual reality.