Quotes About Reality

If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.

Heaven is on this earth. There are no angels on the clouds with twanging harps... That's just another man's fantasy.

Well, there are some things a man just can't run away from.

...they discovered only a small asteroid inhabited by a solitary old man who claimed repeatedly that nothing was true, though he was later discovered to be lying.

A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.

Man as a pure animal does not exist

Jesus remains unshaken as the practical man; and we stand exposed as the fools, the blunderers, the unpractical visionaries.

A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.

Men who have a lot of charm have it in place of something real that you are eventually going to want from them and find that they do not have.

I had the pleasure of meeting that young man at the Patriarch's Ponds. He almost drove me mad myself, proving to me that I don't exist. But you do believe that it is really I?

A friend said to me, "I think the weather is trippy." I said, "No, man, it's not the weather that's trippy, perhaps it's the way we perceive it." And then I realized I just should have said, "Yeah."

Man is not what he believes himself to be in his conscious decisions.

If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner.

I remember when people said, "Man, that's a powerful scene in the movie!" and I was like, "We just shot this thing before lunch, I don't know, he tears a log apart, I said some words".

Sophocles said he drew men as they ought to be, and Euripides as they were.

It is impossible to believe anything into existence. The gospel did not come into being because men believed it...The fact always precedes the faith.

Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

...the infallible man does not exist.

Man errs not that he deems His welfare his true aim, He errs because he dreams The world does but exist that welfare to bestow.

Mystery is the wine of this universe. It makes us dizzy and makes us feel happy! Man needs enigma so that he can get rid of the dullness of the reality!

Men are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not the things themselves.

As a son of a man who pretended to be one thing for 33 years of my life and then was another thing, the questions of 'what is real' and 'what is not real' are very blurrily vivid to me.

I believe it, Chronicler found himself thinking. Before it was just a story, but now I can believe it. This is the face of a man who has killed an angel.

Men in all ways are better than they seem.