Quotes About Reality

The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.

Life is illusion, disillusionment is destruction.

Truth and reality split apart.

If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.

An aphorism never coincides with the truth: it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths.

The world has become uglier since it began to look into a mirror every day; so let us settle for the mirror image and do without an inspection of the original.

There are women who are not beautiful but only look that way.

Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.

Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love.

As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.

Philosophy is to the real world as masturbation is to sex.

there is no reason to believe that a definition necessarily determines the ontological status of the term defined.)

The simple truth is that truth is hard to come by, and that once found may easily be lost again.

Denying realism amounts to megalomania.

The attempt to make heaven on earth invariably produces hell.

Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.

In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable: and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality.

I wish to make it clear that 'history' in the sense in which most people speak of it simply does not exist; and this is at least one reason why I say that it has no meaning.

The reality of time and change seemed to me the crux of realism.

You came and you will be gone. You don't even have to do something for it, it happens by itself. You came by itself and you will be gone by itself. So, what do you worry about?

The point is, if you treat reality like a game, it's going to show in your decisions.

Do you ever think you're being an idealist? Do you ever wonder if you're holding out for something that doesn't exist? I'm not being pessimistic, and although I'd like to believe that a boom or we or us exists, I'm not sure I do anymore. Maybe I've been holding out for something that's unrealistic.

Jesus. After breathing in and out heavily, to prevent myself from hyperventilating, I begin to look around for cameras because, even though I'm

we experience dream events as real in the moment. Neuroscientist Rodolfo Llinás went so far as to state that dreaming "is consciousness itself in the absence of input from the senses."3