Quotes About Reality

Some colors exist in dreams that are not present in the waking spectrum.

A nightmare is only a dream that hits turbulence.

It is difficult to live without opium after having known it because it is difficult, after knowing opium, to take earth seriously. And unless one is a saint, it is difficult to live without taking earth seriously.

A crown is no cure for the headache.

Don't ask questions of fairy tales.

Life isn't a fairy tale. If you lose your shoe at midnight, you're probably just drunk.

Life is not a fairy tale. If you lose your shoe at midnight, chance are you will be walking home barefoot.

Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.

Nothing makes a fish bigger than almost being caught.

In the dark, glitter is nothing but sand.

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.

Happiness is distraction from the human tragedy.

Human misery universally arises from some error that man admits as true. We confound our fears with the idea feared, and place the evil in the thing seen or believed. Here is a great error, for we never see what we are afraid of.

It may seem strange to those in health that our beliefs affect us. The fact is, there is nothing of us but belief. It is the whole capital and stock in trade of man. It is all that can be changed, and embraces everything man has made or ever will make.

The real history does not get written, because it is not in people's brains but in their nerves and vitals.

Cleanliness is next to impossible.

His conclusion was that things were not always what they appeared to be.  The cub's fear of the unknown was an inherited distrust, and it had now been strengthened by experience.  Thenceforth, in the nature of things, he would possess an abiding distrust of appearances.  He would have to learn the reality of a thing before he could put his faith into it.

He had opened up for me the world of the real, of which I had known practically nothing and from which I had always shrunk. I had learned to look more closely at life as it was lived, to recognize that there were such things as facts in the world, to emerge from the realm of mind and idea and to place certain values on the concrete and objective phases of existence.

Each of you dwells in a cosmos of his own making, created out of his own fancies and desires. You do not know the real world in which you live

There is no God but Fact, and Mr. Everhard is its prophet

On Religion and Science: You cannot answer Berkeley, even if you have annihilated Kant, and yet, perforce, you assume that Berkeley is wrong when you affirm that science proves the non-existence of God, or, as much to the point, the existence of matter–You know I granted the reality of matter only in order to make myself intelligible to your understanding. Be positive scientists, if you please; but ontology has no place in positive science, so leave it alone....

I am an idealist who believes in reality, and who, therefore, in all i write strive to be real, to keep both my own feet and the feet of my readers on the ground so that no matter how high we dream our dreams will be based on reality

He alone rated himself beyond diamonds and rubies. Diamonds and rubies are gone, spread out on the deck to be washed away by a bucket of sea-water, and he does not even know that the diamonds and rubies are gone. He does not lose anything, for with the loss of himself he loses the knowledge of loss. Don't you see? And what have you to say?

mas o branco fala verdade de formas diferentes. Hoje fala verdade, amanhã fala verdade de outra maneira e não há como compreendê-lo nem se entende o seu modo de ser.