Quotes About Reality

I give you bitter pills in sugar coating. The pills are harmless: the poison is in the sugar.

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.

Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.

The longing for certainty ... is in every human mind. But certainty is generally illusion.

The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams, illusions, wars, peace, love, hate, all that.... Accept that it's unknown, and it's plain sailing.

Not seeing is half-believing.

Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the world.

We are not troubled by things, but by the opinion which we have of things.

Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at it.

Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.

Losses are comparative, only imagination makes them of any moment.

The worst of faces still is human.

Facts are stubborn things.

Peole do think that if they avoid the truth, it might change to something better before they have to hear it.

An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.

The ultimate umpire of all things in life is - fact.

Disillusion is a natural stage that follows the holding of an illusion.

Whether we name divine presence synchronicity, serendipity, or graced moment matters little. What matters is the reality that our hearts have been understood. Nothing is as real as a healthy dose of magic which restores our spirits.

The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams, illusions, wars, peace, love, hate, all that. Unknown is what it is. Accept that it's unknown, and it's plain sailing.

Fear is created not by the world around us, but in the mind, by what we think is going to happen.

Lord, what fools these mortals be!

Justice is a concept. Muscle is the reality.

To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world, we must do something.