Quotes About Reality

All men are liars, said Roberta Muldoon, who knew this was true because she had once been a man.

These are the pale deaths which men miscall their lives.

Men substitute words for reality and then argue about the words.

I like a look of Agony, because I know it's true - men do not sham Convulsion, nor simulate, a Throe

Man is the microcosm: I am my world.

What is troubling us is the tendency to believe that the mind is like a little man within.

The truth of these days is not that which really is, but what every man persuades another man to believe.

As a wise man once said: Wherever you go, there you are.

The crude product of nature, the object fashioned by the industry of man, acquire their reality, their identity, only to the extent of their participation in a transcendent reality.

The simple point is that literature belongs to the world man constructs, not to the world he sees; to his home, not his environment.

Among these things, one thing seems certain - that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.

The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.

When men have gone so far as to talk as though their idols have come to life, it is time that someone broke them.

Without seeing the origin of light, the true form of one's Self, the ordinary man sees by the mind different things and is deluded.

I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men.

An abstract style is always bad. Your sentences should be full of stones, metals, chairs, tables, animals, men, and women.

Real life is much stranger than fiction, man.

Show me a man who claims he is objective and I'll show you a man with illusions.

I started off believing all men were equal. I now know that's the most unlikely thing ever to have been... But by observation, reading, watching, arguing, asking, that is the conclusion I've come to.

You cannot condemn a man for what may only be a figment of your own imagination.

Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them

If you're going to be a man that reads the papers and takes everything as gospel truth, that's a sign of who you are, that isn't a sign of the reality.

Art will liberate itself from the needs and desires of men. No longer will we paint a forest ora horseas we like oras theyappear to us, but as they really are.

Many things, for aught I know, may exist, whereof neither I nor any other man hath or can have any idea or notion whatsoever.