Quotes About Reality

Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy we call mathematics.

All right, he thought, so the details were not perfect. But maybe, in a sense, that was part of the magic, too.

If you think there is good in everybody, you haven't met everybody.

I learned life were no dream I learned truth deceived Man is not God Life is a century Death an instant

Manifest Destiny, depicted in paintings as an angelic woman in a diaphanous white gown floating serenely, yet watchfully, over the immigrants heading west, was quite a bitch in reality. Anyone not under her wing and not part of the American vision was going to be trampled. Those outside the fold were manifestly destined to be nailed.

There are realms of life where the concepts of sense and nonsense do not apply.

In the lives of children, pumpkins turn into coaches, mice and rats turn into men. When we grow up, we realize it is far more common for men to turn into rats.

Because no retreat from the world can mask what is in your face.

Bad art, for Niemeyer, was not just that which promotes immorality, but, in an even deeper sense, promotes unreality—the fantasy that leaves us locked in private purgatories.

There are no do overs and some things just aren't going to happen. It is a little sad but you just have to embrace what is

Lately I've had to redefine the word "knowledge" to a knowledge that cannot know anything. I'm dealing not in careless absurdities here but in the way material reality is unobservable and implicit order can be found in paradox. Perhaps despair is the only human sin. Who am I to feel disappointment? Is a bird disappointed in the sky

No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself.

It struck me that working digitally with a small crew, I could lay out a general plan for Famous and hope for mistakes which would create something more than satire and something less than truthful reality.

That the AIDS pandemic is threatening sustainable development in Africa only reinforces the reality that health is at the center of sustainable development.

Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?

Who you gonna believe, me or your lying eyes?

When you first start chanting or repeating your positive affirmations, they don't make much sense. You don't feel great about them because they strongly oppose your current reality. That's the point. The affirmations should oppose your current reality. That's how change happens. Everyone feels strange about using affirmations to begin with. But if you stick to the program, the power of positive affirmations will take effect.

Know this Mr. Davis. I am not crazy. I am not sane. I am not alive. I am not dead. I am not even the human being who you call Dr. Vigo Andersen. I was never born and I will never die. I am an eternal being. I am that I am. This, what you call reality, is just a collective dream. I was about to wake up from it permanently when I was yanked back into this temporal space. I did not try to kill myself. I tried to wake up.

Our generation may be able to listen to sermons in a Joseph Campbellish way, treating Bible stories as instructional myths pointing to a deeper communal reality—that is, if we haven't replaced them with Star Wars myths or their equivalent—but don't ask us to believe with our heart and soul.

in the latter half of the twentieth century, postmodernism upended everything. Universal truths were no longer accepted. "Truth" (postmodernism loves quotation marks) was instead a social construct that depended heavily on cultural context. Nothing was either true or false, but was instead open to interpretation.

You are wrong about that, you know, Dr. Andersen replied calmly. This, right here—us talking, sitting in this overlit room, a bunch of shrinks watching us through the tinted windows—this is the dream. The peace you felt before, that is reality. It is the I. The only part of existence that does not change, that cannot change, that will not change. You may not be ready to understand this quite yet, but if you continue meditating, you will.

I nichilisti odiano i pessimisti: chiunque conosca la verità del dolore intralcia i loro piani per l'incremento dell'infelicità del mondo.

The domain of the imagination is reality.

MANY men say that in our dreams There are but lies and idle themes; And yet a man can dream such dreams As are not lies, rather, it seems, Their meaning, later, becomes clear. We may invoke as witness here