Quotes About Reality

Tomorrow-drop that word from your vocabulary! Tomorrow does not exist, it cannot exist: it is not in the nature of things. Only this day exists.

In reality, we haven't escaped the gravity of life at all. We are still beholden to ecological laws, the same as any other life-form.

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Anybody's true nature is bullshit. There is no human soul. Emotion is bullshit. Love is bullshit.

Nature is only another chimera.

Prayer never changes the laws of nature.

Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don't practice nonsense.

I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.

The absolutist takes himself to read nature in her very own language, but the relativist insists that nature does not speak, and we hear only what we have elected to hear.

That's the thing about Mother Nature, she really doesn't care what economic bracket you're in.

Nature does not care what we call it, she just keeps on doing it.

Our idea of nature is increasingly being determined by scientific developments. And they have become decisive for our image of reality.

There are two different conceptions about the nature of the universe: (1) the world as a unity dependent on humanity; (2) the world as a reality independent of the human factor.

George Burns . . . the only man I know who does fool Mother Nature.

We live in a web of ideas, a fabric of our own making.

In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be.

If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.

The saddest illusion of the revolutionary is that revolution itself will transform the nature of human beings.

Part of me is drawn to the nature of sadness because I think life is sad, and sadness is not something that should be avoided or denied. It's a fact of life, like contradictions are.

Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice ... You expect too much of human nature when you expect that.

An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

Even with all the documents, you can never forge nature

This human nature is shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection.

One who is caught in thought loses one's original nature. All he knows are words and descriptions. When he sees the actual thing, he fails to perceive it.