Quotes About Reality

We are what we seem to be.

Nature, or the world, or reality, is what mythology is all about.

Without the balancing context of everyday life, all you have is the news, and news by its nature is generally bad.

It is the nature of the writer to question the validity of his world and yet rely on his senses to describe it. From what other tension can great literature be born?

Love is ...not a fact in nature of which we become aware, but rather a creation of the human imagination.

Whatever conclusions we reach about the reality of God, the history of this idea must tell us something important about the human mind and the nature of our aspiration.

Our most serious problem, perhaps, is that we have become a nation of fantasists. We believe, apparently, in the infinite availability of finite resources.

There are laws of nature - of course there are - even if they don't exist in some sort of bizarre Platonic Heaven.

There is no other reality than nature.

What is impossible by the nature of things is not confirmed by any law.

Movies, by nature, are not subjective, they're objective.

Changes in the universe are not in the Absolute; they are in nature.

Change is the nature of all objective things.

Miracles do not happen in contradiction to nature, but only in contradiction to what we know of nature.

Art must anchor in nature, or it is the sport of every breath of folly.

Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is possible that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never had much temptation to be human beings.

She shows us only surfaces but Nature is a million fathoms deep.

I like a look of agony, because I know it's true

To hold as 't were the mirror up to nature.

To me, Mother Nature isn't nearly as scary as human nature.

The world we write is but a dappled expression of the one in which we live.

There is no limit to the amount of intelligence invested in ignorance when the need for illusion runs deep.

Sometimes a man cannot live up to the best idea they dared to have

Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature.