Quotes About Reality

The world is a philosophical prison and Man is the philosophical prisoner.

The love of your life won't be the man you end up with, and you'll always compare the two.

Present sufferings seem far greater to men than those they merely dread.

For each man there awaits... a particular image capable of annihilating the entire universe.

Hope deceives more men than cunning does.

Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.

Well, so it must be, for as man saw reality, so it became.

I love the irony. I'm perceived as being really young and yet I have the clinical condition of an old man.

Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones.

While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth.

What do men know? Because they have seen no unicorns for a while does not mean we have all vanished.

I believe that school makes complete fools of our young men, because they see and hear nothing of ordinary life there.

You know you have a lot of impatience with reality as you see it when you're a young man and full of dynamism and strength and ideals and so on.

Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.

A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.

The touch of reality is salvation for the man who smothers amid forms and shadows. A blind man would rejoice in sight though his eyes opened on the carnage of a battlefield.

Far off, men swell, bully, and threaten; bring them hand to hand, and they are feeble folk.

You think, "Aw man, I would never want somebody else's poop on my hand," but when it's your child, "Oh, it's not that bad, I'll just wash it off."

Correct morality can only be derived from what man is — not from what do-gooders and well-meaning aunt Nellies would like him to be.

But the idea of a man making his living by writing seemed, in that hardy environment, so fantastic that even today I am sometimes myself assailed by a feeling of unreality.

Never believe extraordinary characters which you hear of people. Depend upon it, they are exaggerated. You do not see one man shoot a great deal higher than another.

Men who cannot deceive others are very often successful at deceiving themselves.

A man in the jungle at night, as someone said, may suppose a hyena's growl to be a lion's; but when he hears the lion's growl, he knows damn well it's a lion.

Men and statues that are admired ire an elevated situation have a very different effect upon us when we approach them; the first appear less than we imagined them, the last bigger.