Quotes About Reality

Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.

One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

There is no truth. There is only perception.

Man is firmly convinced that he is awake in reality he is caught in a net of sleep and dreams which he has unconsciously woven himself.

Yo no sé si ese mundo de visiones vive fuera o va dentro de nosotros.

Me cuesta trabajo saber qué cosas he soñado y cuáles me han sucedido. Mis afectos se reparten entre fantasmas de la imaginación y personajes reales.

In my imagination yes, I remember, when I was six years old, I was conducting all this concert in my house. But now it's real.

The unqualified affirmation of the universal will of salvation has radically changed the way of conceiving the mission of the Church in the world. . . . The work of salvation is a reality which occurs in history.

The unqualified affirmation of the univeral will of salvation has radically changed the way of conceiving the mission of the Church in the world. . . . The work of salvation is a reality which occurs in history.

Youth is a struggle, manhood a disappointment, old age a disaster.

Nothing within the universe itself can exist to explain the fact that it exists.

Bonnie Jean (who thinks all philosophers are idiots) has this quarrel with Wittgenstein, who in several places says that reddish green is inconceivable. Yet every summer, when our peppers are drying from green to red, one can see an intermediate stage that is precisely reddish green.

Reality is the most effective mask of reality. Our fondest wish, attained, ceases to be our fondest wish. Success is the greatest of disappointments. The spirit is most alive when it is lost. Anxiety was Kafka's composure, as despair was Kierkegaard's happiness. Kafka said impatience is our greatest fault. The man at the gate of the Law waited there all of his life.

a boar is a very special kind of animal whose bristling is a thing unto itself, and his nape, like a snake's neck, is more a word than a reality.

Reality was the keener for being fugitive, concealed, and doubtful...

One sometimes weeps over one's illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.

The only certainty is death.

The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.

In a world that has REALLY been turned on its head, truth is a moment of falsehood.

The loss of quality that is so evident at every level of spectacular language, from the objects it glorifies to the behavior it regulates, stems from the basic nature of a production system that shuns reality. The commodity form reduces everything to quantitative equivalence. The quantitative is what it develops, and it can develop only within the quantitative.

Where the real world changes into simple images, the simple images become real beings and effective motivations of hypnotic behavior.

In fact, they live in a state of constant paradox where truth is anything but constant

The only world in which "defeat" exists as a reality is the one darkened by the false idea that what may have happened to us a moment ago is the same as what's possible for us to achieve now.