Quotes About Reality

Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were.

Only a man unable to handle the actual world would create another one in which to hide.

Man peoples his current living space with a world of his own, crowded with the offspring of his fancies, desires, impulses, and passions.

One man's faith is another man's delusion

Man, when he is merely what he seems to be, is almost nothing.

Reality confronts man with a great many musts, but all of them are conditional the formula of realistic necessity is You must, if and the if stands for man's choice

When one looks back over human existence however, it is very evident that all culture has developed through an initial resistance against adaptation to the reality in which man finds himself.

One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.

Real life is, to most men, a long second best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.

Global warming is real - it is man-made and it is an important problem. But it is not the end of the world.

People realize that Salieri is not the man we saw in the Amadeus movie. That man had no talent. It was a great movie, but the Salieri character was a big fiction.

Every man is fully satisfied that there is such a thing as truth, or he would not ask any question.

Myth is necessary because reality is so much larger than rationality...man is fundamentally mythic...His real health depends upon his knowing and living his metaphysical totality.

Now man cannot live without some vision of himself. But still less can he live with a vision that is not true to his inner experience and inner feeling.

Any government which made the welfare of men depend on the character of their governors was an illusion.

'Some Kind Of Monster' is such a nightmare for any musician to watch because you're watching a band be honest to each other. Not a good idea, man!

Euripides says,-Who knows but that this life is really death,And whether death is not what men call life?

...a beggar's kingdom is better than a proud man's delusion.

A plastic man really, actually no man at all.

Why then should witless man so much misweene That nothing is but that which he hath seene?

I have seen men march to the wars, and then I have watched their homeward tread, and they brought back bodies of living men, But their eyes were cold and dead.

To a man utterly without a sense of belonging, mere life is all that matters. It is the only reality in an eternity of nothingness, and he clings to it with shameless despair.

To awaken a man who is deceived as to his own merit is to do him as bad a turn as that done to the Athenian madman who was happy in believing that all the ships touching at the port belonged to him.

In the midst of death we are in life. Life is the only reality; what men call death is but a shadow.