Quotes About Reality

Way up high in the Shenandoah Mountains where I live, it is difficult to maintain illusions about the natural world. It is dying.

Thought is creating divisions out of itself and then saying that they are there naturally.

Everything you see on screen is real. By doing what we do, there's naturally going to be a lot of grimacing. And whimpering.

a state system of propaganda unplugged from daily reality, give to all totalitarian systems a dreamlike quality. Reality is monstrous. But the portrayal of reality in the state-controlled press and popular entertainment is harmonious and pleasant. Justice, in the narratives approved for public consumption, is always served. Goodness always triumphs. Goals are always attained.

Offer, a transplanted Israeli who came to Oxford after serving as a soldier in the 1967 war, said that the effectiveness of an ideology is measured by the amount of coercion it takes to keep a ruling elite in power. Reality, when it does not conform to the reigning ideology, he said, has to be "forcibly aligned." The amount of coercion needed to make society adhere to the model is "a rough measure of the model's validity.

The most ominous danger we face comes from the marginalization and destruction of institutions, including the courts, academia, legislative bodies, cultural organizations, and the press, that once ensured that civil discourse was rooted in reality and fact, helping us distinguish lies from truth, and facilitate justice.

Daniel Boorstin in The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America

The mantra is to be positive, to be happy. This mania for optimism—for happiness—leads to fantasy being mistaken for reality. Reality is dismissed when it is unpleasant.

Being depressed means you are trying to see a colorful world through gray filtered eyes

We recognize that you've used substances to try to regain your lost balance, to try to feel the way you did before the need arose to use addictive drugs or alcohol. We know that you use substances to alter your mood, to cover up your sadness, to ease your heartbreak, to lighten your stress load, to blur your painful memories, to escape your hurtful reality, or to make your unbearable days or nights bearable.

The world actually is a mirror, and as you change, you will see everything around you changing as well as mirroring your changes.

Your perception of the world and the way you see yourself in it has created within your mind a concept, a philosophy, of the way you believe things to be.

Everything that was created changes. But time was not created. Time does not change. Time does not " do " anything. Time is a word we use to describe what existence exists in.

Things just seem so much better in theory than in practice.

How was is that life never worked out the way it did in his head?

Trudging off into a swamp in the middle of the night had seemed like a god idea at the time but, like most of Frey's ideas, the reality fell short of the concept.

I had gone back to being myself. But my self did not exist

no lie is too obvious for the people to believe if it accommodates their secret wish to believe it.

Realist ist heute, wer auf dem Boden der Tatsachen steht - ein Boden, der in den Plänen dieser gleichen Realisten bereits verseucht ist.

Reality has a deep dimension often operating below the surface of empirical experience. To think otherwise is to commit what critical realists call the epistemic fallacy, namely, to reduce what is to what we can empirically observe. That is a debilitating move.

Although all things with physical substance are real, not all real things have physical substance.

Peter Enns is correct: "We do not honor the Lord nor do we uphold the gospel by playing make-believe."[164]

What holds scripture together is not simply accurate information or inerrant propositions about God, life, and the world. What holds it together is the reality of Christ himself, the living, eternal Son through whom God reconciles the world to himself in love.

but we cannot go back to happier times. We can only live in the present, and right now that present is painful.