Quotes About Reality

You have two things happening: You have the cultural and economic reality of men falling apart and traditional masculinity falling apart.

Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he knows nothing but what has passed under his own eyes.

I was just getting tired of the image bullshit...that man of mystery trip and what have you. What's that all about?

It is strange that the tactile sense, which is so infinitely less precious to men than sight, becomes at critical moments our main, if not only, handle to reality.

Words signify man's refusal to accept the world as it is.

Men are always doomed to be duped, not so much by the arts of the other as by their own imagination. They are always wooing goddesses, and marrying mere mortals.

Man's life is thought, And he, despite his terror, cannot cease Ravening through century after century, Ravening, raging, and uprooting that he may come Into the desolation of reality.

The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its 'debt' in the penitentiary or the poor house.

I read somewhere that some people believe that the entire universe is a matrix of living thought. And I said, "Man, if that's not a definition of God, I don't know what is.

In order to deal with reality successfully - to pursue and achieve the values which his life requires - man needs self-esteem; he needs to be confident of his efficacy and worth.

Why does the blind man's wife paint herself.

I have never met a woman, or man, who stated emphatically, "Yes, I have it all.'" Because no matter what any of us has—and how grateful we are for what we have—no one has it all.

Men are not on such intimate terms with the sublime that they really can believe in it

There I went again, building up a glamorous picture of a man who would love me passionately the minute he met me, and all out of a few prosy nothings.

I would catch sight of some flawless man off in the distance, but as soon as he moved closer I immediately saw he wouldn't do at all.

Now the answer ... is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.

Show is not substance; realities govern wise men.

Man must get away from verbal forms to attain the consciousness, that which is there to be perceived at hand.

Imagination, realm of enchantment!- which the most beneficent of beings bestowed upon man to console him for reality- I must quit you now.

The existence of illness in the body may no doubt be called a shadow of the true illness which is held by man in his mind.

Love will never be ideal until man recovers from the illusion that he can be just a little bit faithful or a little bit married.

Men and women fall in love abandoning reality in favour of the dream

Men play at tragedy because they do not believe in the reality of the tragedy which is actually being staged in the civilised world

Fritz Mondale is not some synthetic Masked Marvel or Mystery Man. He is not made of silicon and micro-chip flakes. He is made of flesh and blood and brains.