Quotes About Reality

It may seem strange to those in health that our beliefs affect us. The fact is, there is nothing of us but belief. It is the whole capital and stock in trade of man. It is all that can be changed, and embraces everything man has made or ever will make.

Human misery universally arises from some error that man admits as true. We confound our fears with the idea feared, and place the evil in the thing seen or believed. Here is a great error, for we never see what we are afraid of.

Let me just say that to imagine racism does not exist is imagination. And to imagine that it does not create its own set of problems is true imagination. So let's not imagine that racism is gone, extinguished, because it's not. We are seeing this in the top levels of the political arena, and we are seeing it very, very plainly.

The world's full of magic. Other religions call it a miracle, some people call it positive visualization, scientists call it quantum reality. But it can slip right past you if you're not paying attention. Really, that's what a Witch is—someone who's paying attention to those manifestations. And someone who's learned how to work with the energy, for good.

Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out.

Children are born with imaginations in mint condition, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. Then life corrects for grandiosity.

The quintessential Japanese balance, I thought: to surrender all of yourself to an illusion, and yet somewhere, in some part of yourself, to know all the while that it is an illusion.

Everywhere you turned, everything was happening, and everything that was happening took you away from all abstraction and into something human, where answers weren't so easy.

If they can't get to Europe, they'll find their way to a local theme-park Eiffel Tower. Even a place that we write off as "inauthentic," they realize, can arouse emotions that are entirely authentic.

Airports say a lot about a place because they are both a city's business card and its handshake; they tell us what a community yearns to be as well as what it really is (much like the people inside them, often, who are dressed up for the occasion, and worn ragged and bare by the experience).

Reality seemed so paltry next to castles—dungeons—in the air.

told Louis one sunlit afternoon that the essence of the Dalai Lama's teaching for non-Buddhists was contained in the line we'd read at school, from Hamlet: "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

L'homme ne s'avise de la réalité que quand il l'a représentée. Et rien, jamais, n'a pu mieux la représenter que le théâtre.

Si tu as pour moi un peu d'affection, cela me suffit / Car rien n'est plus fort que ce qui est vrai ; / Mais le soir est tombé et je suis terrifié de ne pas te voir. [95]

In the end, oh I know, never, in my haggard passion, have I ever been such a cadaver as now as I take again in hand my tables of the present— if reality's real, but after it's been destroyed in the eternal and the moment by the obsessive idea of a shining nothingness.

If I then discovered a cancer in myself and died, I'd consider it a victory of that reality of things.

Abbiamo bisogno di molto tempo per accettare la brutalità del fatto di non essere più soli

Since we came to this world we only heard lies. But it's the lies that make it interesting. The truth would devastate us

If an historian were to relate truthfully all the crimes, weaknesses and disorders of mankind, his readers would take his work for satire rather than for history.

Un libro de verdad afecta en mayor o menor grado a lo que pensamos y, por tanto, a lo que somos. Cambia en cierta medida, el mundo que consiste, en parte, en la idea que tenemos de él, ya lo adorne y agrande, ya consuma su ruina No conozco libro, cuando ha importado, que no haya hecho temblar el suelo de la existencia, dislocado la visión pobre, burda que yo tomaba, antes de que la quebrantara, por la realidad.

A comunicação é instantânea porque, em certo sentido, ela não existe.

The mind is a metaphor of the world of objects.

the only thing each of us lives and loses is the present.

Illusions of grandeur are not the same as visions of greatness.