Quotes About Reality

If they say I am inconsistent let them say it, for it is true, because inconsistency is a part of living

A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering.

The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will.

Wisdom... is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion.

To know the world, one must construct it

I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.

The object of knowledge is what exists and its function to know about reality.

Leave greatness to others. Become so small that no one can see you. This conviction results from growing devotion to the supreme reality.

We have much wisdom to gain by learning to understand other people's cultures and permitting ourselves to accept that there is more than one version of reality.

Sleep is a mirror of life in which can be seen the reflection of death.

Once you understand that the false needs time and what needs time is false, you are nearer the Reality, which is timeless, ever in the NOW.

Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for apprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.

Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead.

Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn't make sense, and that it doesn't make much difference anyway.

Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself.

Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world

The world is as you are.

Those whose hearts are fixed on Reality itself deserve the title of Philosophers.

More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

It all ends in tears anyway.

Everything that looks too perfect is too perfect to be perfect.

Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all.