Quotes About Reality

Men's memories are uncertain and the past that was differs little from the past that was not.

The world could only be known as it existed in men's hearts. For while it seemed a place which contained men it was in reality a place contained within them.

He said that whether a man's life was writ in a book someplace or whether it took its form day by day was one and the same for it had but one reality and that was the living of it.

There is nothing more deceptive, more grandeur, than the delusion of a single man.

The Elephant Man claimed his head was big because, it's so full of dreams. Actually, it's because his skull was shaped like a turkey.

If a man dreams about sleeping with Marilyn Monroe, he's certainly entitled to that. But when he wakes up, he has to acknowledge that he is married to someone else.

And now - Plato's words mock me in the shadows on the ledge behind the flames: '...the men of the cave would say of him that up he went and down he came without his eyes.

When a person goes to a country and finds their newspapers filled with nothing but good news, he can bet there are good men in jail.

Don Quixote is one that comes to mind in comparison to mine, in that they both involve journeys undertaken by older men. That is unusual, because generally the hero of a journey story is very young.

I've finally figured out what's wrong with photography. It's a one-eyed man looking through a little 'ole. Now, how much reality can there be in that?

I understand there are some men who are only half here. Let's not say men. Let's say people. People who are more or less obscure at times.

In exchange for our humility and willingness to accept the charity of God, we are given a kingdom. And a beggar's kingdom is better than a proud man's delusion.

Grown men, he told himself, in flat contradiction of centuries of accumulated evidence about the way grown men behave, do not behave like this.

Pray the real live forever man. Pray the fakes get exposed.

The righteousness of men should be treated with the same respect that one would accord to a rattlesnake. Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

I met a man once who told me that far from believing in the square root of minus one, he didn't believe in minus one. This is at any rate a consistent attitude.

All men think that all men are mortal but themselves.

Most men are less afraid of ghosts than of facts.

It takes a lot to wound a man without illusions.

Nature attains perfection, but man never does.

All great art is revolutionary because it touches upon the reality of man and questions the reality of the various transitory forms of human society.

can't blame a man for being human when human is all he'll ever be!

Man can never stand still. He must find solutions to this contradiction, and ever better solutions to the extent to which reality enables him.

Men cannot act before the camera in the presence of death.