Quotes About Reality

Every man I knew went to bed with Gilda... and woke up with me.

What knowledge is there of which man is capable that is not founded on the exterior,--the relation that exists between visible and invisible, the perceptible and the imperceptible?

What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.

Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.

I cannot comprehend how any man can want anything but the truth.

Socialist: A man suffering from an overwhelming conviction to believe what is not true.

No man should be angry with what is true.

It is not proof that I sought. I, of all men, know that proof is but a fallacy invented by man to justify to himself and his fellows his own crass lust and folly.

The gods are blind. And men see only what they wish" - Tyrion Lannister

For life makes no mistakes and always gives man that which man first gives himself.

I was a healthy young man, and I thought I was invincible before I was diagnosed with kidney disease.

People who only listen to preachers have a tendency to put them on a pedestal, but those who live with preachers recognize that they are just common men.

It is always disillusioning to weigh your fish and measure your golf drives. Smart men estimate them.

After all, things are what they are. A message is a message, plates are plates, men are men, and life is life.

For awhile, I got stupid about only wanting a leading-man role, but I have no illusions. I know I'm not Brad Pitt.

It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

The numerous people who imagine that a long stay in the Polar regions makes a man less susceptible of cold than other mortals are completely mistaken.

Every man I have ever known has fallen in love with Gilda and awakened with me.

Many heroic exploits and chivalrous adventures are related to me which exist only in the regions of fancy. With me the world has taken great liberties, and yet I have been but a common man.

If you want to prove that God is not dead, first prove that man is alive.

No man knows distinctly anything, and no man ever will.

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is a hallucinating idiot...for he sees what no one else does: things that, to everyone else, are not there.

When man tries to imagine Paradise on earth, the immediate result is a very respectable Hell.

Man's consciousness not only reflects the objective world, but creates it.