Quotes About Reality

Nature admits no lie.

No lie you can speak or act but it will come, after longer or shorter circulation, like a bill drawn on Nature's Reality, and be presented there for payment—with the answer, No effects.

The fine arts once divorcing themselves from truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

To men in their sleep there is nothing granted in this world.

Ever in the dullest existence there is a sheen either of Inspiration or of Madness

The Reality had swept the Formulas away before it.

So how do we know anything at all, if in fact we do know anything at all?

1754: Immanuel Kant hat eine Begegnung mit dem Ding an sich und sagt, er könne nicht darüber sprechen.

To suppose a reader thoroughly indifferent to Kant, is to suppose him thoroughly unintellectual; and, therefore, though in reality he should happen not to regard him with interest, it is one of the fictions of courtesy to presume that he does.

Not the Opium-eater, but the opium, is the true hero of the tale, and the legitimate centre on which the interest revolves.

Wonder at reality demands the humility to sit at the foot of a dandelion. The proud are so full of themselves that there is little room to marvel at anything else.

Living things grow gradually, and communion with God, being the supreme of all living realities, likewise matures imperceptibly,

I've yet to read a memoir by anyone I've known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.

Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

For I never have seen, and never shall see, that the cessation of the evidence of existence is necessarily evidence of the cessation of existence.

You know, I'm glad that what I want doesn't necessarily always come true.

A public is a necessary fiction.

It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception.

Necessity has the face of a dog.

Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.

If you go into a negotiating room and are like, 'Well I was on the same card as Conor McGregor, so maybe I should get a little bit more money,' they'll probably just look at you like, 'What? In what universe does that even make sense?' So I don't see how anyone could possibly think it's going to be a trickle-down effect.

People think if you win the 'Bake Off' you walk straight into a big book deal and all of this but it isn't like that. You've still got to work really, really hard - probably harder than before - to make the right connections, to tour with brands, to discuss opportunities and negotiations.