Quotes About Reality

There was no truth in anything he said, anything he believed. It was all just an expression of his own needs.

That's it. That's all there is. The cosmos has no shape at all – no such thing as time or distance, no physical laws, no cause and effect.

Simulated consciousness" was as oxymoronic as "simulated addition.

The truth is whatever you can't escape.

Whatever elaborate, and grotesquely counter-intuitive, underpinnings there might be to familiar reality, it stubbornly continues to be familiar. When Rutherford showed that atoms were mostly empty space, did the ground become any less solid? The truth itself changes nothing.

As for the stars, they were never ours to lose; the truth is, we've lost nothing but the illusion of their proximity.

I said, 'The truth is whatever you can get away with.' 'No, that's journalism. The truth is whatever you can't escape.

What am I? The data? The process that generates it? The relationships between the numbers?

Opponents replied that when you modeled a hurricane, nobody got wet. When you modeled a fusion power plant, no energy was produced. When you modeled digestion and metabolism, no nutrients were consumed – no real digestion took place. So, when you modeled the human brain, why should you expect real thought to occur?

The world is full of broken people who think they are surrounded by whole people.

People make a grievous error thinking that a list of facts is the truth. Facts are just the bare bones out of which truth is made.

We judge and punish based on facts, but facts are not truth. Facts are like a buried skeleton uncovered long after death. Truth is fluid. Truth is alive. To know the truth requires understanding, the most difficult human art. It requires seeing all things at once, forward and backward, the way God sees.

When someone's paradigm changes, the world itself changes with it. So "facts" are only facts *for a system* or paradigm.

Christians need not sit in an isolated philosophical tower, reduced to simply despising the philosophical systems of non Christians. No, by taking every thought captive to Christ, we are enabled to cast down reasoning that is exalted against the knowledge of God (cf. 2 Cor. 10:5). We must challenge the unbeliever to give a cogent and credible account of how he knows anything whatsoever, given his espoused presuppositions about reality, truth, and man (his "worldview").

God's mind gives both diversity and order to all things, thus guarantying the reality of particulars (multiplicity) and yet assuring that they are intelligible (unity).

Satan, whom Paul labeled as "the god of this evil world," is so clever that he has fooled many people into thinking that he doesn't even exist—while in reality he controls their very lives.

I was just an average bloke. It was the media that tried to transform me into a heroic figure. But I've learned through the years, as long as you don't believe all that rubbish about yourself, you can't come to too much harm.' - Sir Edmund Hillary

The Scriptures picture the church as an essential, chosen organism in whom Christ dwells; the reality is that people view the church as an optional institution, unnecessary for discipleship.

Remember this rule: Like most reality shows, integers have no point whatsoever.)

Oh, I say I have an ocelot and it's a joke, but I've had so many news programs in this country say, 'So what's it like, having an ocelot?" And I'll say, "It's marvelous just to see them run free. When feeding time comes and they're mewling, it just warms your heart.' People will really believe anything. You may have noticed this. It's not just me. Look around.

It's an odd question actually, because your body has never been a permanent thing – it is an illusion.

Maturity is graduating from the belief that the world misunderstands you to the awareness that you misunderstand the world.

Similar to observers in the Copenhagen interpretation, we only see the possibility we focus on. And that's the key to locking that particular possibility into place as "reality.

Herein lies the key to understanding what quantum physics is really saying to us about our power in the universe. Our world, our lives, and our bodies exist as they do because they were chosen (imagined) from the world of quantum possibilities. If we want to change any of these things, we must first see them in a new way—to do so is to pick them from a "soup" of many possibilities.