Quotes About Reality

No catalogue of horrors ever kept men from war. Before the war you always think that it's not you that dies. But you will die, brother, if you go to it long enough.

A man does not exist until he is drunk.

Let mortal man keep to his own Mortality, and not expect too much.

I'm a man for whom the outside world is an inner Reality.

Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.

The world's a bubble, and the life of man, Less than a span.

For trash and toys, And grief-engend'ring joys, What torment seems too sharp for flesh and blood; What bitter pills, Compos'd of real ills, Men swallow down to purchase one false good!

There are two things which Man cannot look at directly without flinching: the sun and death.

Man is imperfect. The reality he creates is always endangered by man.

It is not things, but opinions about things that have absolutely no existence, which have so deranged mankind!

Without the perpetual counterfeiting of the universe by number, man could not continue to live

The truthful man ends up realizing that he always lies.

The first man to see an illusion by which men have flourished for centuries surely stands in a lonely place.

For in the end, the irreality function functions as well in the face of man as in the face of the cosmos. What would we know of others if we did not imagine things?

I prefer the man who calls his nonsense a mystery to him who who pretends it is a weighed, measured, analyzed fact.

The notion that as a man grows older his illusions leave him is not quite true. What is true is that his early illusions are supplanted by new, and to him, equally convincing illusions.

Wizards die the same as other men, once you cut their heads off.

We shall not busy ourselves with what men ought to have admired, what they ought to have written, what they ought to have thought, but with what they did think, write, admire.

Men reform a thing by removing the reality from it, and then do not know what to do with the unreality that is left.

When a man ceases to believe in god, he does not believe in nothing. He believes in everything.

It is very foolish of a man to be frightened of a skeleton, for Nature has put an insurmountable obstacle against running away from it.

Hey man! I'm a comedian but I'm not a clown.

In the lives of children, pumpkins turn into coaches, mice and rats turn into men. When we grow up, we realize it is far more common for men to turn into rats.

When she was fifteen if you'd told her that when she was twenty she'd be going to bed with bald-headed men and liking it, she would have thought you very abstract.