Quotes About Reality

The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together.

One man's accuracy is another man's bullshit.

Yet is there one true line, the pearl of pearls: Man dreams of Fame while woman wakes to love.

What did you see?' he asked then. Nothing,' I told him. 'Because nothing is what you wanted me to see, though the man on the table might disagree.

Man is a living lie--a bitter jest Upon himself--a conscious grain of sand Lost in a desert of unconsciousness.

This image of herself as a not ordinary women, an image which was trembling now in his eyes, might suddenly disappear. Nothing more difficult to live up to than men's dreams.

Men are not created to know, men are not created to understand ... and our illusions increase with our knowledge.

No truth is proved, no truth achieved, by argument, and the ready-made truths men offer you are mere conveniences or drugs to make you sleep.

If my future were black, it was better surely to face it like a man than to attempt to brighten it by mere will-o'-the-wisps of the imagination.

Happy is the man who knows how to distinguish the real from the unreal, the eternal from the transient and the good from the pleasant by his discrimination and wisdom.

Men differ daily about things which are subject to sense, is it likely then they should agree about things invisible.

No man is liberated from fear who dare not see his place in the world as it is; no man can achieve the greatness of which he is capable until he has allowed himself to see his own littleness.

I don't want to be a pessimist. I'm a realist. One man's realist is another man's pessimist.

The great mass of people judge well of things, for they are in natural ignorance, which is man's true state.

Look, I learned from your uncle that when the universe turns out to be insane, the wise man embraces insanity.

Authentic Christianity should lead to maturity, personality, and reality. It should fashion whole men and women living lives of love and communion

Violence - look, we live in a violent world, man. This country was founded on violence. Who's kidding who?

For the wise men of old the cardinal problem had been how to conform the soul to reality. For magic and applied science alike the problem is how to subdue reality to the wishes of men.

Sins are timeless. Sins are an everyday reality for every one. Sin has been in existence since the beginning of man, since Adam and Eve. It will always be pertinent.

Still, it will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than on inquiring what belief is most in harmony with their system.

Men turn their faces to hell, and hope to get to heaven; why don't they walk into the horsepond, and hope to be dry?.

I'm not trying to sound like I turned into some kind of wise man, but it's nice to realize that your little pocket of the world isn't the whole world.

I see the strongest and the smartest men who have ever lived... and these men are pumping gas and waiting tables.

Faculty X is a sense of reality of other places and other times, and it is the possession of it—fragmentary and uncertain though it is—that distinguishes man from all other animals.