Quotes About Reality

Life was not fair, it simply existed. If you accidentally stepped on a poison snake, you got bitten. Intentions were irrelevant.

The truth can seem awfully small and insignificant when compared to a mountain of lies.

How can you be alive, now, if you were dead?" "Well, death isn't what it used to be.

Faith is a device of self-delusion, a sleight of hand done with words and emotions founded on any irrational notion that can be dreamed up. Faith is the attempt to coerce truth to surrender to whim. In simple terms, it is trying to breath life into a lie by trying to outshine reality with the beauty of wishes. Faith is the refuge of fools, the ignorant, and the deluded,not of thinking rational people.

We can't live our lives according to what might have been. We have to live by what is.

Wishing gets people killed," he often said. "Using your head gets you home.

reason is our only way of grasping reality—that it's our basic tool of survival. We are free to evade the effort of thinking—to reject reason—but we are not free to avoid the penalty of the abyss we refuse to see.

I know, Magda, your heart, and your loyalty to your love for me. But don't let that be the end of your ability to love. That love wouldn't harm me, or diminish me, or change what we had. It can only add to you and who you are. You need to embrace the reality of what is, not what was.

But the truth can seem awfully small and insignificant when compared to a mountain of lies.

The power needs truth to work. Truth is reality, the laws of nature. They're inseparable. That relationship is represented by the word woven into the hilt. That makes this sword meant to serve more than just the power. It is also meant to serve the truth. This is the Sword of Truth.

Wizard's First Rule: people are stupid, they believe what they want to believe.

Emotion did not play a part in truth, only reality did.

People's heads are full of knowledge, facts, and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it all true. People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so are all the easier to fool.

The truth has value.

After last night, he felt that the first part, his fantasy of being with her, was just an empty wish.

Teachings that defy reason defy reality; what defies reality defies life. Defying life is embracing death.

Faith is a device of self-delusion, a sleight of hand done with words and emotions founded on any irrational notion that can be dreamed up. Faith is the attempt to coerce truth to surrender to whim. In simple terms, it is trying to breathe life into a lie by trying to outshine reality with the beauty of wishes. Faith is the refuge of fools, the ignorant, and the deluded, not of thinking, rational men.

I hate magic, Berdine muttered. It makes no sense.

Zedd leaned forward eagerly, cutting him off. "Can you command the wind?" Richard leaned back a little. "Of course I can," he said, playing along. He held both hands up to the sky. "Come to me, brother wind! Gather about! Blow a gale for me!" He spread his arms dramatically. Kahlan wrapped her cloak around herself expectantly. Zedd looked about. Nothing happened. The two of them seemed a little disappointed.

Chickens can move and flop for hours after their heads are cut off. They have no heartbeat either, Naja said, and that doesn't involve magic.

there was no saving the world. the world was going to do what the world was doing [sic] to do.

Some are simply blind to the truth and fight for the lies they hear.

Are we our bodies? Is a small person less than a big person, then? If we were our bodies, then when we lost an arm, or a leg, would we be less, would we begin to fade from existence? No. We are the same person. "We are not our bodies; we are our thoughts. As they form, they define who we are, and create the reality of our existence. Between those thoughts, there is nothing, simply the body, waiting for our thoughts to make us who we are.

Reality could seldom match the imagination, and in the imagination, the pain was real.