Quotes About Reality

Flying saucers are real. Too many good men have seen them, that don't have hallucinations.

The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.

Seek your own Reality, That is what a wise man should do.

Pure truth no man has seen, nor ever shall know.

A man's name, title, and rank are artificial and impermanent; they do nothing to reveal what he really is, even to himself.

Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.

The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.

Philosophy teaches how man thinks he thinks; but drinking shows how he really thinks.

Man does not see reality as it is, but only as he perceives it, and his perception may be mistaken or biased.

Dreams and actions are not so different as usually thought, as all actions of men are founded upon dreams, and their end - is a dream too.

It is not important whether or not the interpretation is correct — if men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences.

Everything depends therefore on encountering thought at its source. Such thought is the reality of man's being, which achieved consciousness and understanding of itself through it.

Vain are the thousand creeds That move men's hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, Or idlest froth amid the boundless main.

Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man's vision.

Few men have imagination enough for reality.

I'm not a star, man. If a guy came in here and shot you and shot me, we'd both be two dead people. You understand?

What a man can't remember doesn't exist for him.

Life is a vexatious trap; when a thinking man reaches maturity and attains to full consciousness he cannot help feeling that he is in a trap from which there is no escape.

Men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; their opinion is made up of consciousness of their own actions, and ignorance of the causes by which they are determined.

The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.

Man lives in a world of meaning.

Language is the main instrument of man's refusal to accept the world as it is.

One thing in any case is certain: man is neither the oldest nor the most constant problem that has been posed for human knowledge.