Quotes About Reality

Whilst part of what we perceive comes through our senses from the object before us, another part (and it may be the larger part) always comes out of our own mind. William James, The Principles of Psychology

Imagine, he said, that you enter a large, somewhat crumbling hall that echoes with the sounds of people mumbling and talking repetitively to themselves. All around you these people fall into prostrate positions, some of them weeping. Where are you? Sara's answer was immediate: in an asylum. Perhaps, Kreizler answered, but you could also be in a church. In the one place the behavior would be considered mad; in the other, not only sane, but as respectable as any human activity can be.

The fact that you cannot understand it does not mean that it doesn't exist.

Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth truth being defined as that which exists.

Everything is true in some sense, false in some sense, and meaningless in another sense.

Look at this - an entire generation of Cinderellas, and there's no glass slipper.

My dreams are a cruel joke, they taunt me. Even in my dreams I'm an idiot who knows he's about to wake up to reality.

I want to live a real life. I don't want to dream any longer.

For instance, here is a puzzle that many minds have pondered: If a tree falls in the forest, and there is no one there to hear it,does it still make a sound?

Men are quite unobservant, you know. They see only what they wish to see.

Sometimes it is better to know an unpleasant thing than nothing at all.

It's hard to be on your high horse when you are falling on your face.

The say nothing blinds us like love, but Faye knew that nothing blinds as much as the dream of love. Hope is a powerful drug.

Men... have had the vanity to pretend that the world creation was made for them, whilst in reality the whole creation does not suspect their existence.

If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.

Over the past 20 years, I have noticed that the most flexible, dynamic, inquisitive minds among my students have been industrial design majors. Industrial designers are bracingly free of ideology and cant. The industrial designer is trained to be a clear-eyed observer of the commercial world - which, like it or not, is modern reality.

If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.

Nature is always pulling the rug out from under our pompous ideals.

Una obra tremendista (...) ha de retratar el mundo con una cruel y descarnada sinceridad; ha de contar siempre toda la verdad (...) ha de ser clara como el aire de las montañas; caritativa con los bienaventurados que sufren en silencio, tierna como una loba amamantando a un niño, honesta sin tabú ni juegos de palabras, y valerosa y arrojada como un héroe adolescente y enloquecido.

Hubiera querido ser torero, pero solo llegué a Premio Nobel

La verdad del escritor no coincide con la verdad de quienes reparten el oro.

La falta de informacion mantiene puros los espiritus conduce a la decencia o no deja salir al hombre masturbador ni a la mujer masturbadora de la decencia esto que queda dicho es mentira pero parece verdad en todo caso es una mentira que multiples hombres y mujeres que se masturban creen que es verdad.

Las cosas nunca son como a primera vista las figuramos, y así ocurre que cuando empezamos a verlas de cerca, cuando empezamos a trabajar sobre ellas, nos presentan tan raros y hasta tan desconocidos aspectos; tal pasa con las caras que nos imaginamos, con los pueblos que vamos a conocer, que nos los hacemos de tal o de cual forma en la cabeza, para olvidarlos repentinamente ante la vista de lo verdadero.

Es grave confundir la anestesia con la esperanza.