Quotes About Reality

However inventive humans turn out to be, they will never invent their way around the laws of thermodynamics. That fundamental truth is denied by standard infinite-growth theory, which blithely projects productivity gains from technological innovation indefinitely into the future.

Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being true.

Our perspective of life has passed into an ideology which conceals the fact that there is life no longer.

Die Mannsleute sind doch immer noch schlimmer als man denkt.

Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.

Even the loveliest dream bears like a blemish its difference from reality, the awareness that what it grants is mere illusion.

There is no true life within a false life.

Es gibt kein richtiges Leben im falschen

Jazz is the false liquidation of art — instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture.

Il mondo nuovo è un unico campo di concentramento che si crede un paradiso, non essendoci nulla da contrapporgli.

The un-naïve thinker knows how far he remains from the object of his thinking, and yet he must always talk as if he had it entirely. This brings him to the point of clowning. He must not deny his clownish traits, least of all since they alone can give him hope for what is denied him.

L'art est la magie délivrée du mensonge d'être vrai.

Il faut abandonner l'illusion qu'elle [la philosophie] pourrait retenir l'essence dans la finitude de ses déterminations.

Divertir-se significa que não devemos pensar, que devemos esquecer a dor, mesmo onde ela se mostra. Na base do divertimento planta-se a impotência. É, de fato, fuga, mas não, como pretende, fuga da realidade perversa, mas sim do ultimo grão de resistência que a realidade ainda pode haver deixado. A libertação prometida pelo entretenimento é a do pensamento como negação.

A ciência ela própria não tem consciência de si, ela é um instrumento, enquanto o esclarecimento é a filosofia que identifica a verdade ao sistema científico.

Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are not gains without pains.

We knew many things, and much that is false. He knew nature, which is always true

Facts are much more malleable than prejudices.

I suspect, though I cannot prove, that in part this is the consequence of living in a world, including a mental world, so thoroughly saturated by the products of the media of mass communication. In such a world, what is done or happens in private is not done or has not happened at all, at least not in the fullest possible sense.

And once again sentimentality seems to be dialectically related to violence and brutality, in imagination if not in deed.

If humankind, as T. S. Eliot put it, cannot bear very much reality, it seems that it can bear any amount of unreality.

Well into her career, painters like Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema or Léon Frédéric were still churning out the most dreadful pictures of childhood. Such artists strained after emotions, not that they felt, but that they felt they ought to feel.

Alma-Tadema and Frédéric could paint nothing that was truthful either to the world or to themselves.