Quotes About Reality

Often the object of a desire, when desire is transformed into hope, becomes more real than reality itself.

Where is all my wisdom, then? I behaved stubbornly, pursuing a semblance of order, when I should have known well that there is no order in the universe.

Oysa ÅŸimdi, dünyan?n zarars?z bir bilmece olduÄŸunu, ard?nda bir gerçek varm?? gibi onu aç?klamaya kalk??ma ç?lg?nl???m?z?n onu korkunçlaÅŸt?rd???na inan?yorum.

World visions can conceive of everything, except alternative world visions...

Only by having a sense of history's trajectory (even if one does not believe in Parousia) can one love earthly reality and believe—with charity—that there is still room for Hope.

Creo que, a ciertas alturas, ya no hay diferencia entre acostumbrarse a fingir que se cree y acostumbrarse a creer

Toda imagen estética está superada por las imágenes posibles que suscita, que abre. Sin embargo, no podría manifestarse ningún desvarío, porque la experiencia tiene lugar sobre y en el objeto.

Empirical objects become signs (or they are looked at as signs) only from the point of view of a philosophical decision.

Sensing that I ought to become more closely involved in political matters, I realized the most attractive news to fabricate would be what these idle minds were expecting, rather than what the newspapers reported as solid fact.

Among the many certainties whose lack he complained of, one alone is present, and it is that all things appear to us as they appear to us, and it is impossible for them to appear otherwise.

By reading narrative, we escape the anxiety that attacks us when we try to say something true about the world. This is the consoling function of narrative — the reason people tell stories, and have told stories from the beginning of time.

It seems that fictional worlds are parasitic on the real world.

But evidence is not enough for those who want to live in a horror novel.

Affected as they are by a constitutive solipsism, philosophies can say everything about the world they design and very little about the world they help to construct.

Un vis este o scriptur?, È™i multe scripturi nu sunt altceva decât vise.

The most effective insinuation is the one that gives facts that are valueless in themselves, yet cannot be denied because they are true.

Kitapl?k hem gerçeÄŸin hem de yan?lg?n?n kan?t?d?r.

Saul Bellow escribió una vez que, en una época de locura, creerse inmunes a la locura es una forma de locura.

The mass media first convinced us that the imaginary was real, and now they are convincing us that the real is imaginary; and the more reality the TV screen shows us, the more cinematic our everyday world becomes. Until, as certain philosophers have insisted, we will think that we are alone in the world, and that everything else is the film that God or some evil spirit is projecting before our eyes.

When you go from the fake New Orleans of Disneyland to the real one, where the captain of the paddle-wheel steamer says it is possible to see alligators on the banks of the river, and then you don't see any, you risk feeling homesick for Disneyland. -'City of Robots',1986

formal semantics has sought to expand a logic of truth conditions so as to recognize the legitimacy of metaphorical expressions - expressions that speak about the world by lying.

In order for there to be a mirror of the world, it is necessary that the world have a form.

Así es como conoce Dios el mundo, porque lo ha concebido en su mente, o sea, en cierto sentido, desde fuera, antes de crearlo, mientras que nosotros no logramos conocer su regla, porque vivimos dentro de él y lo hemos encontrado ya hecho.

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