Quotes About Reality

People who live with their head in the clouds deserve to hit the ground every once in a while.

Aku tahu di dunia ini kadang kita harus menerima fakta yang tidak ingin kita percayai

teacher is under the illusion that he is teaching something, and the student is under the illusion that he is being taught. What's important is that this shared illusion makes both teacher and student happy. Nothing good is gained by facing the truth, after all. All we're doing is playing at education.

Your assumptions are your worst enemies. Trust them too much, and you'll fail to see what's right under your nose.

Hubungan antara guru dan murid dibangun berdasarkan persepsi yang salah, yaitu tugas sang guru adalah mengajarkan sesuatu sementara tugas murid adalah mempelajarinya. Yang penting adalah bagaimana persepsi itu bisa membuat kedua belah pihak sama-sama puas, apalagi yang namanya kebenaran tidak menjamin semuanya akan baik-baik saja. Yang kita kerjakan saat ini sama dengan bermain sekolah-sekolahan. Nonoguchi

All people live in a fantasy in which they are the main character.

The world isn't beautiful, therefore it is.

The World is not beautiful, therefore it is.

The world is not beautiful: And that, in a way, lends it a sort of beauty.

Indeed, truth itself may be defined as that which corresponds to reality as perceived by God.

Most children would rather preserve the fantasy of a loving connection with their fathers and mothers, at all costs, even if it costs them their self-esteem. When you're three or seven years old, it's less frightening to think of yourself as an unlovable, disappointing screwup than to recognize the fact that you're living with a monster.

Deep down, everyone wants the truth.

It's only a story.' As if such words made it less real. But I did not believe him even then, for stories were written down, and the words on the page were proof enough. Fixed and permanent in time, the words, if anything, made the people and places more real than the everchanging world.

I beg you to understand and accept that no matter what name, I am what I am.

Some times our thoughts and dreams are more real than the rest of our experience and at other momentsthat which happens to us overshadows anything we might imagine.

Everyone sees what you appear to be," observed Machiavelli, "few really know what you are.

What you see shapes how you change ... We tell ourselves a story of what our job is, what our company does, who the people we work with are - and that story becomes our reality. ... What you see shapes how you change

Fame—fame was the anti-death. But it seemed to slither from his grasp, seemed to giggle and retreat, seemed to hide behind a huge oak tree and make farting sounds with its hands.

Honest, Blake, take no notice," Joe said. "He's a fart on the surface, but scratch underneath and he can sometimes smell a bit better.

one must acknowledge that local understandings of external realities are fashioned from local cultural materials, and that, knowing little or nothing of the latter, one's ability to make appropriate sense of "what is" and "what occurs" in another's environment is bound to be deficient.

The public has a right to art The public is being ignored by most contemporary artists. ... Art is for everybody. ... I am interested in making art to be experienced and explored by as many individuals as possible with as many different individual ideas about the given piece with no final meaning attached. The viewer creates the reality, the meaning, the conception of the piece.

I wish I was not so determined to feel secure about everything. I want everything to be comfortable and in reality nothing ever is.

As I grew up, everything started getting grey and dull. I could still remember the amazing intensity of the world I'd lived in as a child, but I thought the dulling of perception was an inevitable consequence of age - just as a lens of the eye is bound gradually to dim. I didn't understand that clarity is in the mind.

The men the Americans now call 'the Greatest Generation' were not all the selfless heroes they are often portrayed to be: a proportion of them were also thieves, plunderers and abusers of the worst kind.