Quotes About Reality

The city of cats and the city of men exist one inside the other, but they are not the same city.

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

Even if a man should chance to speak the most complete truth, yet he himself does not know it; all things are wrapped in appearances

A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion.

All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.

A truly wise man does not play leapfrog with a unicorn.

Examine the religious principles which have, in fact, prevailed in the world. You will scarcely be persuaded that they are other than sick men's dreams.

Man has the supreme knack of deceiving himself; the Englishman is supremest among men.

The question was put to him, what hope is; and his answer was, "The dream of a waking man."

When I hear a grown man or woman say, "Once I had faith in men, now I have not," I am inclined to ask, "Who are you whom the world has disappointed? Have not you rather disappointed the world?"

The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.

If there's one thing you can say about mankind, there's nothing kind about man.

Man is not made to understand life, but to live it.

While men are gazing up to Heaven, imagining after a happiness, or fearing a Hell after they are dead, their eyes are put out, that they see not what is their birthright.

Life is a God-damned, stinking, treacherous game and nine hundred and ninety-nine men out of a thousand are bastards.

Between the worlds of men and make believe I can be found.

The frame of the cave leads to the frame of man.

Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man

One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word.

All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.

Man can be that which he wishes to be; form and substance, they are but shadows. The mind, the ego, the essence of the god-dream -- that is real, that is immortal.

A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books.

Although every man believes that his decisions and resolutions involve the most multifarious factors, in reality they are mere oscillation between flight and longing.

When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.