Quotes About Reality

Um dragão que cospe fogo pelas ventas vive na minha garagem - O Mundo assombrado pelos demônios.

Knowledge is preferable to ignorance. Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable.

The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent to the concerns of such puny creatures as we are.

A vida é apenas uma visão momentânea das maravilhas deste assombroso universo, e é triste que tantos se desgastem sonhando com fantasias espirituais.

You don't know things anywhere! You live in a dream, you manufacture illusions!

Sometimes a man has got to hock his sweet used-to-be in order to finance his present situation...

My only point, the only point that I'm making, is life has to be allowed to continue even after the dream of life is - all over...

Ignorance of mortality is a comfort.

Yo no puedo cambiar la verdad! Yo no soy Dios. Ni siquiera estoy segura que él pudiese. No creo que Dios mismo pueda cambiar la verdad.

Así es. Todas las muchachas lindas son una trampa y los hombres esperan que lo sean.

Everyone should know nowadays the unimportance of the photographic art: that truth, life, or reality is an organic thing which the poetic imagination can represent or suggest, in essence, only through transformation, through changing into other forms than those which were merely present in appearance.

How about these birthday congratulations, these many, many happy returns of the day, when ev'rybody but you knows there won't be any!

BLANCHE: You see I still have that awful vanity about my looks even now that my looks are slipping!

Entra Tom. Va vestido como un marino mercante. Cruza hasta la escalera de incendios, donde se detiene y enciende un cigarrillo. Se dirige el público.   TOM: Es cierto, me reservo algunos trucos, me guardo algún as en la manga. Pero soy lo contrario de un mago de la escena. Él ofrece una ilusión con apariencia de verdad, yo os entregaré la verdad con el amable disfraz de la ilusión.

Honey, you're not operating on the realistic level anymore than I am.

T]hese people lived close to the ground, if you will, and the natural world filled their lives. Creation was a lived reality for them prior to the development of specific ideas about creation.

God works creatively with already existing realities to bring about newness. This understanding also entails the idea that the present (and future) is not wholly determined by the past; God does bring the new into existence. [...] God also creates in and through creaturely activity.

Reality is, you know, the tip of an iceberg of irrationality that we've managed to drag ourselves up onto for a few panting moments before we slip back into the sea of the unreal.

There's light at the end of the tunnel. The problem is that tunnel is in the back of your mind. And if you don't go to the back side of your mind you will never see the light at the end of the tunnel. And once you see it, then the task becomes to empower it in yourself and other people. Spread it as a reality. God did not retire to the seventh heaven, God is some kind of lost continent IN the human mind.

A hallucination is a species of reality, as capable of teaching you as a videotape about Kilimanjaro or anything else that falls through your life.

We live in condensations of our imagination

The real truth, that dare not speak itself, is that no one is in control. Absolutely no one.

The main thing to understand is that we are imprisoned in some kind of work of art.

There is no mundane dimension really, if you have the eyes to see it, it is all transcendental.