Quotes About Reality

People who want to be free from suffering need to cultivate an understanding of reality, the wisdom of ultimate truth, while developing the method side of the practice, which entails a thorough understanding of conventional truth. There is no other way.

See, there's the pie chart. If you look, you can see clear as day that the happy times -- the times when you think "How fun! I'm glad I'm alive" -- don't make up even one tenth of life. I'm work this out properly with a calculator, so there's no mistake.

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right temporarily defeated is stronger than evil triumphant.

Nothing shatters the reality of our good intentions like reality.

The truth is a strange thing. Like pornography, you know it when you see it.

What was real was the dance of light in her eyes and the quick current of our blood.

Prison is a haunted house of mirrors. It was impossible for me to come to the truth there.

I'm not being spiteful, I'm trying to figure out how to live with this new reality.

knew that things like this happen to people, but by people, I didn't mean us.

If you can't count it, measure it, or gauge it with science, it didn't happen.

I'm bringing this up because I knew that things like this happen to people, but by people , I didn't mean us.

I am deeply convinced that happiness does not exist in this world.

For, after all, what is sin? It is common sense. It is reality. In truth, it is the only reality in the world, and everything else is confusion, lies, hypocrisy, sentimentality, pietistic falsehood and delusion. I suggest that you once came to this conclusion, yourself.

De una cosa podemos estar seguros, muchacho, este alivio temporal de los impuestos acabará en impuestos mayores y en un colapso final. Se trata puramente de un asunto de contabilidad. ¿Pero es que a la gente le importa el presupuesto y la dura realidad de que uno no puede gastar lo que no tiene sin ir a parar a la bancarrota? ¡No! Gritarán "¡viva!" al tirano Cinna, pensando en la ganancia inmediata a expensas de la nación.*

Dices que morirás de pena si no consigues a Livia. Los hombres no mueren de amor. Eso se dice en las poesías; pero la vida tiene poco de poética.

Everyone living is doomed

I'm not a princess, this ain't a fairytale.

What we consider imagination is a reality in some form on levels beyond the normal sensory world.

Science fiction is very well suited to asking philosophical questions; questions about the nature of reality, what it means to be human, how do we know the things that we think we know.

My message to you is this: Pretend that you have free will. It's essential that you behave as if your decisions matter, even though you know they don't. The reality isn't important; what's important is your belief, and believing the lie is the only way to avoid a waking coma. Civilization now depends on self-deception. Perhaps it always has.

Experience is algorithmically incompressible.

Hillalum wondered what sort of people were forged by living under such conditions; did they escape madness? Did they grow accustomed to this? Would the children born under a solid sky scream if they saw the ground beneath their feet?

Past and future are the same, and we cannot change either, only know them more fully. My journey to the past had changed nothing, but what I had learned had changed everything.

She, like many, had always thought that mathematics did not derive its meaning from the universe, but rather imposed some meaning onto the universe.