Quotes About Reality

That life wouldn't get any easier as I got older. If anything, it would only get harder as I grew up to the realization, as he apparently had, that all our beliefs were built on a flimsy scaffolding of stories, and that happiness was nothing but a wish and love was only a lie.

I slept and dreamt that life was beauty I woke and found that life was duty.

That's why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.

That's why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.

I grew up in the world of bad television, on my dad's sets and then as a young schmuck on dating shows and so on.

I don't believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It's a mean thing, life.

Fear is and has always been dead. It's how we picture it that makes fear come to life.

The whole cosmos is in a man's brains—as much of it, at least, as a man's brains will hold; perhaps it is nowhere else. And when sleep relaxes the will, and there are no earthly surroundings to distract attention—no duty, pain, or pleasure to compel it—riderless Fancy takes the bit in its teeth, and the whole cosmos goes mad and has its wild will of us.

The reliable presence of people who love us facilitates our perception and toleration of painful reality and enriches our lives.

Biblical theology must be done from a starting point that is biblical-historical in orientation. Only this approach can deal adequately with the reality of God and his inbreaking into history. This is the methodology employed by the present writer in the study of New Testament theology.

In Hebrews faith is the faculty to perceive the reality of the unseen world of God and to make it the primary object of one's life, in contrast to the transitory and often evil character of present human existence.

What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral.

The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.

Love gilds us over and makes us show fine things to one another for a time, but soon the gold wears off, and then again the native brass appears.

Were it not madness to deny To live because we're sure to die?

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.

Anger does not make history. Power does. And power may be supplemented by anger, but it derives from more fundamental realities; geography, demographics, technology, and culture.

Strategy is something that emerges from reality, while tactics might be chosen.

common sense is the one thing that will certainly be wrong.

But wishes don't make policy. Policy is made by reality, and the reality of what has been created, whether intentionally or not, can't be abandoned without breathtakingly severe consequences.

The problem was that the American media and public could never distinguish between the lie and the truth.

The idea that the president has the power to craft a new strategy both overstates his power and understates the power of reality crafted by those who came before him. We are all trapped in circumstances into which we were born and choices that were made for us.

It is inherent in any definition of science that statements that cannot be checked by observation are not really saying anything or at least they are not science.