Quotes About Reality

The identity that we ascribe to things is only a fictitious one, established by the mind, not a peculiar nature belonging to what we're talking about.

Politicians think that if matters look difficult, compromise is a good approach. Unfortunately, nature and the laws of physics cannot compromise - they are what they are.

Nothing in nature is as simple as it sometimes seems when reduced to words.

As we gaze into the mirror it holds up for us, we too easily imagine that what we behold is Nature when in fact we see the reflection of our own unexamined longings and desires.

You know that you are. Don't burden yourself with names, just be. Any name or shape you give yourself obscures your real nature.

The possibilities that are suggested in quantum physics tell us that everything that we're looking at may not be in fact there, so the underlying nature of being is weird.

For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.

Our reality is influenced by our notions about reality, regardless of the nature of those notions

The human understanding of its own nature is prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds.

Human nature at times is unfortunately very ugly and I learned the world can be a very ugly place. For as much beauty there is, there's just as much brutality and violence and ugliness.

White does not exist in nature.

...Therefore it is said: 'The perception of a phenomenon IS the perception of the Universal Nature, since phenomena and Mind are one and the same.'

Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.

Death is nature's way of killing you.

The realities of nature surpass our most ambitious dreams.

We perceive nature through the senses, which give us images of forms of colour, sounds etc. A form which exists only in relation to another form on its own, it does not exist.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

To call everything that appears illogical, fantasy, fairy tale, or chimera would be practically to admit not understanding nature.

Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.

Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor ; who lives to fancy, never can be rich.

Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.

There seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural.

Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human nature.

You and I are the force for transformation in the world. We are the consciousness that will define the nature of the reality we are moving into.