Quotes About Reality

Toda humanidade pode compartilhar a mesma insanidade e estar imersa em uma ilusão comum enquanto vive em um caos comum.

Finge went on. "There are some things, however, they must not know. Prime among them, of course, is the manner in which we alter Reality when necessary. The insecurity such knowledge would arouse would be most harmful. It is always necessary to breed out of Reality any factors that might lead to such knowledge and we have never been troubled with it.

Century or another. Usually, the dangerous beliefs are those which concentrate particularly in the ruling classes of an era; the classes that have most contact with us and, at the same time, carry the important weight of what is called public opinion." Finge paused as though he expected Harlan to offer some comment or ask some question. Harlan did neither. Finge continued. "Ever since the Reality Change 433–486, Serial Number

Very well. So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can't rearrange the universe.

Now a human caught in an impossibility often responds by a retreat from reality: by entry into a world of delusion, or by taking to drink, going of into hysteria, or jumping off a bridge. It all comes to the same thing-a refusal or inability to face the situation squarely.

Fakat art?k dünyan?n ne olduÄŸunu biliyordu: ÖzgürlüÄŸün s?n?rs?zl???yla kuÅŸat?lm?? bir hapishane..

if you wish to call the truth impossible, that is your privilege, but it will get you nowhere.

sólo una mentira que no estuviera avergonzada de sí misma podía tener éxito. También dijo que nada tenía que ser cierto, pero que todo tenía que sonar como si lo fuese.

It had happened with the sudden catastrophe of a dream – and with all the unreal horror of a dream.

All humanity could share a common insanity and be immersed in a common illusion while living in a common chaos.

I tell you I know the type of people that become Medievalists. They're soft, dreamy people who find life too hard for them here and get lost in an ideal world of the past that never really existed.

people who don't expect justice don't have to suffer disappointment

el eterno ideal era un hombre austero, que solo vivía para la misión a la que era destinado, para la mejora de la Realidad y para incrementar la suma de la felicidad humana.

In fact—and he reached up to rub his cheek with long, spare fingers—with the combination of factors you handed me I don't quite see how she fit in the old Reality.

Il modo più semplice di risolvere un problema è negare che esista.

He also said that nothing had to be true, but everything had to sound true.

nada tenía que ser verdadero, pero que todo debía parecerlo.

No doubt the world is entirely an imaginary world, but it is only once removed from the true world.

Atheism is a sort of crippled mysticism, [...] Blind nature has created all that we see, as well as all that we do not see - that's a mystical notion.

Ich erinnere mich noch an Ihre Worte: "Die Welt ist ein Schlachthaus und ein Bordell." Damals schien mir das übertrieben, aber es ist bittere Wahrheit. Man hält Sie für einen Mystiker, aber in Wirklichkeit sind Sie durch und durch Realist. Wie dem auch sei, alles wird uns aufgezwungen, selbst die Hoffnung.

I can no longer be fooled by paint and perfume.

Well, dreams are all lost, Herman said to himself. Each day begins with amnesia.

Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change

You only have one life, but if you live it well, that's enough. The only reality is now, today. What are you waiting for to be happy?