Quotes About Reality

In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.

Every four years the naive half who vote are encouraged to believe that if we can elect a really nice man or woman President everything will be all right. But it won't be.

Many men who transgress justice, honor appearance over reality.

MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be.

What is man? He's just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.

Men are disturbed not by the things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.

A man once said when the legend gets bigger than the man, you've lost the man and you have an unrealistic picture.

When one sees that everything exists as an illusion, one can live in a higher sphere than ordinary man.

Now in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.

Men have never been good, they are not good and they never will be good.

Some men have a silly theory about beautiful women - that somewhere along the line they'll turn into a monster. That movie gave them a chance to watch it happen.

If we face the fact, for it is a fact, that there is no arm to cling to, but that we go alone and that our relation is to the world of reality and not only to the world of men and women.

Sometimes the picture that emerges of the man seems no longer to agree with our conception of the musician. In reality, however, there is a glorious unity.

Men are foolish to expect us to revere them, when, in the end, they amount to almost nothing.

Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape.

The man who has fed the chicken every day throughout its life at last wrings its neck instead, showing that more refined views as to the uniformity of nature would have been useful to the chicken.

But if the Vision was true and mighty, as I know, it is true and mighty yet;for such things are of Spirit, and it is in the darkness of their eyes that men get lost.

All things look good from far away and it is man's eternally persistent childlike faith in the reality of that illusion that has made him the triumphant restless being he is.

Men should never marry their muse. It ruins the illusion.

When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion.

It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man.

A man might pass for insane who should see things as they are.

I think the King is but a man as I am: the violet smells to him as it doth to me.

Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.