Quotes About Reality

Ölmek istiyorum, dekorsuz, poz almadan. Batan bir güne? gibi ihti?amla de?il, kaderin bileklerime takt??? prangalardan kurtulmak için ölmek. Mütevazi bir odadan süslü bir salona geçer gibi, realiteden tarihe geçmek umurumda de?il. Ah inanabilseydim. Ist?rap gayyas?nda aylarca kald?m, orada yaln?z sükut vard?. Neredesin, yanan aln?m? mü?fik avuçlar?nda dinlendirecek Meçhul Dost?

Tanzimattan bu yana Türk ayd?n?n?n al?nyaz?s? iki kelimede dü?ümleniyordu: aldanmak ve aldatmak. Senaryoyu ba?kalar? haz?rlam??t?, biz sadece birer oyuncuyduk. Nesiller bir ütopyan?n kurban? olmu?lard?… Avrupa'y? tan?mak gaflet; Avrupa'y? tan?yan ülkeisnden kopuyor. Bu lanet çemberinden nas?l kurtulaca??z? (Ma?aradakiler, s,323)

Denial,they say, stands for"Don't even notice I am lying." Human beings are the only animals who are happily lied to by our own minds about what is actually happening around us.

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.

Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest --thought, action --is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go.

Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.

Ne san?yorsun?Ay herkes için vard?r,yaÄŸmurda,hastal?klar da.Ä°nsan yeralt?nda da yaÅŸasa,sarayda da yaÅŸasa,kan her yerde k?rm?z?d?r.

L'arte di vivere è l'arte di credere alle menzogne, il tremendo è che, non sapendo quid sit veritas , sappiamo però che cos'è la menzogna.

Bir ÅŸeyden, onu görmezlikten gelerek deÄŸil, ancak onu yaÅŸayarak kurtulabiliriz.

[On the principles of Italian neorealism:] I believe in imagination, but I have more faith in reality, in people. I am not interested in prearranged encounters, in the drama of things that happen to come together.

The idea is not to regard the spiritual path as something very luxurious and pleasurable but to see it as just facing the facts of life.

They were the good old days. Don't give up hope in the bad new days, which will become the good old days. We appreciate Kennedy because he was killed; Martin Luther King was a great man. If you'd meet Naropa or Tilopa on the spot you'd be pissed off. History is very deceptive, reality is more important. There is a piece of philosophy for you.

when we appreciate reality, it can actually work on us.

At first, the mountains are mountains and streams are streams. Then, the mountains are not mountains and streams are not streams. But in the end, mountains are mountains again and streams are streams again.

That is one definition of the setting-sun mentality: trying to conquer the earth so that you can ward off reality

As a reasonable person who is perturbed by your relationship with the so-called bread-and-butter world and uninspired by the prospects presented by this ordinary version of reality, you may begin to think of the possibility of getting into a different and higher realm of discipline and experience.

Atiyoga: Fathomless Mind Basically speaking, neurosis is temporary and sanity is permanent. When we begin to take that attitude, we realize that our occasional freak-outs and panic and our feeling of being trapped are no longer applicable. In realizing that we are eternally free, eternally liberated, and eternally awake, we begin to experience vast mind.

Face aux archipels du passé, solides et insubmersibles, le présent incertain et précaire perdait toute consistance. Le réel ne résistait pas aux reflux de la mémoire.

All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it.

It's not a pretty world, Papa.' 'I've noticed,' my father said softly.

Literature, well done, illustrates the reality of human nature.

The truth, finally, is who can tell it.

The first World War had finally come to a close and it all seemed like springtime. I've learned since that it is in those moments, when one is lulled into hopefulness, that the sword drops onto one's head.

Gods are fragile things they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.