Quotes About Reality

Lou Perlman dreamed he was on the threshold of a thrilling new life, even as he understood he was travelling steerage on the same old battered boat of wishful thinking.

Dawn 5am: the frogs ask what is it, what is it? It is what it is.

There is nothing romantic in the poverty of artists except to those who ogle the starving

if every story ended with a handsome prince, there wouldn't be anybody left in the kingdom to stand around and cheer.

To me, the rainbow was a profoundly hopeful symbol, separating the the white light of appearances into its multiple spectrum and revealing a hidden dimension. It reminded me of my belief that it was the mission of science to pierce through the layers of everyday reality and penetrate to the truth.

If you believe in love, you're setting yourself up to be disappointed.

I dreamed that I was loved. I woke and found it true.

when the truth is not as dramatic as the rumour, it gets altered.

the present is a reality, and the future is just a possibility!

your reality is only what you conceive in your mind!

She had discovered that loving an imperfect, all-too-human man was a far more profound experience than loving a perfect idol.

This world," he had learned long before, "does not seem to be the place to carry out one's wishes.

A la gente que nos gusta leer, el mundo real nos da lo mismo.

De todas las cosas conocemos la versión que nos han hecho creer. Presuponemos que nuestros padres dicen la verdad, y en realidad no tenemos motivos para pensar de otro modo. Sólo quien va un poco más allá de lo obvio se da cuenta de que no tiene por qué ser así en todos los casos. Siempre hay excepciones que confirman la regla.

There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.

The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.

Dream is not so different from deed as many believe," he wrote. "All activity of men begins as dream and later becomes dream once more.

Now they must be directed toward an inner, psychological reality. "No one thought of looking for the promised land where it is, and yet it lies so nearby. There it is: inside ourselves!… The promised land is wherever we carry it!

We are led into philosophical confusion, thought Wittgenstein, by seeking explanations at times when we should instead simply stop and say, "This is how things are.

The human mind, just because man is by nature a spiritual-rational-moral agent, will not and cannot forever shun the larger issues of truth and reality; the nonmeta-physical and antimetaphysical eras always turn out to be transition interludes.

The basic issues reduce really to two alternatives: either man himself projects upon the world and its history a supernatural reality and activity that disallows objectively valid cognitive statements on the basis of divine disclosure, or a transcendent divine reality through intelligible revelation establishes the fact that God is actually at work in the sphere of nature and human affairs.

You never change things by fighting the existing reality,

I have never since entirely freed myself of the impression that this life is a segment of existence which is enacted in a three-dimensional boxlike universe especially set up for it.

The individual, however, as an irrational datum, is the true and authentic carrier of reality, the concrete man as opposed to the unreal ideal or normal man to whom the scientific statements refer.