Quotes About Reality

La vida no es siempre logica

Ä°nsanlar?n bazen göründüÄŸü kadar kötü olmad???n? öÄŸrenmiÅŸti; göründüklerinden daha kötülerdi.

Every miracle's got a mundane explanation. [...] and you can choose - you can look at the wonderous surface or you can look at the crud beneath. I want to see the wondrous, believe me. I just know it isn't going to be there when I've finished looking.

The man hesitated and then reached across to shake Ordo's hand, surrendering soft pale civilian fingers to a black gauntlet. The look on his face said clearly that he hadn't expected to find flesh and blood inside the droid-like shell, or to retrieve his hand uncrushed afterward. "My pleasure, sir," Ordo said. It was unusually quiet in the EasyRide after that. At least the reality had registered on them.

Jeffrey never understood how people could think a dead person was just sleeping. Death changed the air, charged it with something thick and unsettling.

He talked about how people always obsess about lies. Damn lies, But no one really understands that the real danger is truth.

Everybody felt that history was like a book, a beginning, a middle and an end. That's not how it worked. Real life was all middle.

Sara had once asked the woman why she didn't go to medical school, only to be told that nurses were the ones who practiced the real medicine.

A person who has been up close when a gun is fired into another human being never mistakes the sound of a gunshot for something else.

Or was she making a connection that wasn't there, like an amputee who still feels a missing arm or leg long after it's gone?

the great thing about lying was people believed it so long as the lie was close enough to the truth. Lena

We think they're real." Lydia tried to play devil's advocate again. "We think that girl looked like Anna Kilpatrick. We think that she was mutilated in the same way, based on what her mother said and did during a press conference. But are we one hundred percent certain? Or are we just talking ourselves into it?" "Confirmation bias." Claire scowled at her own words. "What's the downside of calling Mayhew?

Ben Hecht said, "Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell time by watching the second hand of a clock.

you can't have a logical discussion with someone who makes up their own facts.

What lies between these two ends, these 'last things', is the world, our world, the comprehensible world which has been given us.

Creation is grace: a statement at which we should like best to pause in reverence, fear and gratitude. God does not grudge the existence of the reality distinct from Himself; He does not grudge it its own reality, nature and freedom.

Even truth can be deceptive, whatever its appearance.

No science of religion (history, psychology, or sociology of religion) understands the reality of religion. Science can know and understand religions without the investigator's belonging to or having faith in any of them. Real faith is not knowable.

These are fat mummies sitting with their bags of crisps in front of the television, saying that thin models are ugly. Fashion is about dreams and illusions, and no one wants to see round women.

Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence.

All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided.

The demand to give up the illusions about its condition is the demand to give up a condition that needs illusions

A commodity appears, at first sight, a very trivial thing, and easily understood. Its analysis shows that it is, in reality, a very queer thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties. 

Perseus wore a magic cap down over his eyes and ears as a make-believe that there are no monsters.