Quotes About Reality

All beings share a common world, but each creature has its own way of perceiving this world.

Asl?nda insanlar seni hayal k?r?kl???na uÄŸratm?yor. Sadece sen, yanl?? insanlar üzerinde hayal kuruyorsun..

The uncritical civilization bears witness to its own decline in accepting myths as fact while dismissing facts as myth.

We all have an idealised picture of the garden that we have carried around in our heads from the moment it became ours and which, I guess, is never the same as the growing reality. Over the years that the garden is coming into being that image carries you forward and inspires you, but when things reach maturity, the cold light of reality can be harsh.

Do Eastern religions meditate because it helps them to perceive reality as they consider it really is; that is, in monistic mode? Or do they see reality in monistic mode because they meditate? Similarly, do western religions emphasize such acts as prayer and worship because they help the believer to see the reality of the theistic mode? Or do they tend to see reality in a theistic way because of the activities of prayer and ritual worship?

If we must escape from reality, it should be to a deeper, or greater, reality. This is the reality of our inner life, of our own unique vision of the world.

But many of the conceptual constructs that we employ in scientific and in philosophical thought concern objects such as black holes and quarks in physics, and God, spirits, and souls in metaphysics. These are objects about which it is of fundamental importance to ask about their existence in reality.

How many of us would be willing to settle when we're young for what we eventually get? All those plans we make...what happens to them? It's only a handful of the lucky ones that can look back and say that they even came close.

It's not that kind of game, Han, she said, her voice sounding like she wished he would grow up and face reality already. The object isn't to win. It's to stay in it as long as you can.

Reality is created out of confusion and contradiction, and if you exclude those elements, you're no longer talking about reality. You might think that --by following language and a logic that appears consistent-- you're able to exclude that aspect of reality, but it will always be lying in wait for you, ready to take its revenge.

He felt her there beside him, just as she had always been on evenings like this when he had called for music, and when her touch on her instrument, or her least word to him, had been so much her own; except that he would have preferred even to this vivid dream her simple reality in the dark.

Women are by nature blithely content to allow others to deceive them. You know full well these tales have only the slightest connection to reality, and yet you let your heart be moved by trivial words and get so caught up in the plots that you copy them out without giving a thought to the tangled mess your hair has become in this humid weather.

If you don't remember Death, Death reminds you to do so. And if you can't cope with the facts the next best thing is to go away for a holiday.

the world you live in is determined largely by what goes on in your mind.

Remember, your subconscious mind does not engage in proving whether your thoughts are good or bad, true or false. It responds according to the nature of your thoughts or suggestions. For example, if you consciously assume that something is true, even though it may be false, your subconscious mind will accept it as true and proceed to bring about results that must necessarily follow because you consciously assumed it to be true.

Dopo un po' chiuse gli occhi e stava quasi per precipitare nelle oscurità del sonno, quando lui disse: «Nulla è reale, eccetto i sogni e l'amore.»

Truth is like a blanket that always leaves your feet cold!

If I take dust in my hand and ask you if that is all the dust there is, you will answer that dust is everywhere on earth. More specks than can ever be numbered. So I can give you a handful of truth only. Besides this there are other truths. More than can ever be numbered.

You have spent your whole life believing such untrue things. Don't you know how alone you are, David? We are most alone when we are with the myths.

Yes. That's it. Speaking about it to others would have made it real. It would have become a fact. Their reaction, their responses, their words -- it would all tell me that the terrible thing had happened. That I wasn't just imagining it.

Maybe there is no news, Lily said, but only a moment later he corrected himself. There is news, they just don't put it in the newspapers anymore.

it doesn't matter to a person when he is in a hall of mirrors — he himself knows he is the one who is real. The confusion is for the onlookers.

Do you hear it?" "Yes," Mikal replies. "It's a battle, isn't it?" "Yes." "It's the world," one of the other men says. "The world sounds like this all the time, we just don't hear it. Then sometimes in some places we do.

The only good life is one in which there is no need for miracles.