Quotes About Reality

That which I call a text is practically everything… Speech is a text, gesture is a text, reality is a text in this new sense. This is not about re-establishing graphocentrism alongside logocentrism or phonocentrism or text-centrism. The text is not a centre. The text is an openness without borders, of ever-differentiating references.

as if perception and thought were independent of the sign

What are man's truths after all? They are man's irrefutable errors.

Metaphysics is a closed system;

Our civilization is first and foremost a civilization of means; in the reality of modern life, the means, it would seem, are more important than the ends. Any other assessment of the situation is mere idealism.

Efficiency is a fact and justice a slogan.

L'Histoire ne connaît pas de miracle.

explained: "It happened, but only in the mind of the writer. And, of course, in your mind, too. That's what a novel is. The exchange of dreams.

The world is not pretty. It's only the hard work of some people that makes it so.

The curious thing about this little forerunner of greatness is that although we are sure that he existed and are intellectually convinced that he had to have certain characteristics, no man has ever seen a shred of physical evidence that he really did exist.

this world contains an irreducible minority of sick sons of bitches, and sooner or later one of them is going to impinge on your life, and mine.

They believe falsehood, and it's always easier to accept a lie than to find out the truth.

A noble deed is a dream before it is reality. The oak sleeps in the acorn; the bird waits in the egg; and in the highest vision of the soul, a beautiful world waits to be realized.

He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass: environment is but a looking glass.

The outer world of circumstance shapes itself to the inner world of thought

The universe does not favour the greedy, the dishonest, the vicious, although on the mere surface it may sometimes appear to do so; it helps the honest, the magnanimous, the virtuous.

The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn; the bird waits in the egg; and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.

What you are, so is your world.

Disease and health, like circumstances, are rooted in thought.

They do not know the darkness and the heartaches; they only see the light and joy, and call it luck.

Love is the Supreme Reality in the universe, and as such it contains all Truth. Infinite Tenderness enfolds and cherishes the universe; therefore is the wise man gentle and childlike and tender-hearted.

Man is primarily a spiritual being, and as such, is of the nature and substance of the Eternal Spirit, the Unchangeable Reality, which men call God. Goodness, not sin, is his rightful condition; perfection, not imperfection, is his heritage, and this a man may enter into and realize now if he will grant the condition, which is the denial or abandonment of self, that is, of his feverish desires, his proud will, his egotism and self-seeking — all that which St. Paul calls the natural man.

Men are chained to that which causes suffering because they desire to be so, because they love their chains, because they think their little dark prison of self is sweet and beautiful, and they are afraid that if they desert that prison they will lose all that is real and worth having.

mente es el poder maestro que modela y fabrica, y el hombre es mente, y eternamente toma la herramienta que es pensar,  y, modelando lo que desea, lleva adelante un millar de alegrías, un millar de males:  El piensa en secreto, y así acontece:  El mundo que lo rodea no es más que su espejo.