Quotes About Reality

La fe es medible. Se basa en lo que piensas y consideras sobre una verdad espiritual. (...) Hay leyes naturales, como la gravedad, y hay leyes espirituales, como ésta. Puedes tener lo que dices si crees que lo tienes antes de que tú en realidad veas que lo tienes. Eso es fe.-Zacharel

Refusing to believe a truth doesn't make it a lie

Shit sprinkled with sugar was still shit.

She had created her own misery. Had welcomed her own destruction. Had cast her own emotional illusions, believing in them until they became her reality.

Someone who accepts the lie will never see the truth.

Religious fanatics are the worst. They're basically impossible to bargain with, they accept no outside opinion about anything, and they departed from reality well before you met them.

T]he truth is the percentage of vampires that are also evil killers is about the same as the percentage of normal people who are also evil killers.

Madness, in my personal experience, is mostly the acceptance of a reality that is not commonly agreed-upon. 

Propositions are true or false. Images are not.

And so it can be today: Lutherans—with their understanding of creation, incarnation, God's presence in the Sacraments, His governance of the world, and His involvement in human vocations—can bring back not only belief in God but also belief in reality.

some readers are tempted to ignore the challenges of their own lives and to live completely in the alternative reality of books. This can be dangerous and sinful, a rejection of the real world in which God has placed us.

It is far more important to me that I come to know my Lord in living reality than it is to be in ministry without it.

What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.

It's like the free puppy," I continue. "It's not the upfront capital that kills you, it's the operations and maintenance on the back end." Chris cracks up. "Yes, exactly! They'll say, 'The puppy can't quite do everything we need. Can you train it to fly airplanes? It's just a simple matter of coding, right?

telemetry is what enables us to assemble our best understanding of reality and detect when our understanding of reality is incorrect.

This is all just corporate theater. I don't like it but accept it for what it is.

His distinguishing thirty-two characteristics And the eighty different attractive features seem to be visible, Yet in reality, his form is neither with nor without features. All visible features are transcended. Without having features His body has features. This is also true of the features Of the bodies of all living beings.

When dreams become more important than reality, you give up travel, building, creating; you even forget how to repair the machines left behind by your ancestors. You just sit living and reliving other lives left behind in the thought records. -- Vina, "The Menagerie" ("The Cage"), Star Trek, 1966

Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself.

Am I going crazy…as in crazier than I already am?

Gilda, you're talking like this is a fairy tale, and you're going to meet Prince Charming, and everything's going to be all right, and we'll both live happily ever after." "So what's wrong with that?

All novels are fantasies. Some are more honest about it.

Weak people believe what is forced on them. Strong people what they wish to believe, forcing that to be real.

Hope is a psychological mechanism unaffected by external realities.