Quotes About Reality

Whoever determines the truth from people alone will remain lost in the plains of bewilderment. Rather, know the truth, and you will know its people.

A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with Reality, and lives in a world of illusion.

Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.

Do not fix hopes on your health, and do not laugh away life. Remember how they walked and now all their joints lie separately, and the tongue with which they talked lightly is eaten away by the worms

Get used to a rough life, for luxury does not last forever.

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and reality in our mind.

To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.

It is like employing a small tool on big constructions, if we use human wisdom in the hunt for knowledge of reality.

The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story.

This life is not real. I conquered the world and it did not bring me satisfaction.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

And isn't it a bad thing to be deceived about the truth, and a good thing to know what the truth is? For I assume that by knowing the truth you mean knowing things as they really are.

What is Christian in art does not lie in the theme but in the spirit of it, in its wisdom and the understanding of reality it reflects.

What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.

Should one continue to base one's life on a system of belief that--for all its occasional wisdom and frequent beauty--is demonstrably untrue?

The conventional wisdom is often wrong.

Reality is where your consciousness is located

Man's indecency to man all over the world rules out the idea of humanity as an actuality. It is a dream of young idealists. In practice a misnomer

One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.

Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse

I am convinced of the validity of contradiction. There are many worlds. Each is true, at its time, in its own fashion

Conventional wisdom would have one believe.

I was a long time learning that wisdom and experience are things apart; that to taste life is not to be confused with understanding what life is really all about.