Quotes About Reality

He [Ludwig Wittgenstein] once greeted me with the question: "Why do people say that it was natural to think that the sun went round the earth rather than that the earth turned on its axis?" I replied: "I suppose, because it looked as if the sun went round the earth." "Well," he asked, "what would it have looked like if it had looked as if the earth turned on its axis?" —ELIZABETH ANSCOMBE,

Unser bewusstes Wirklichkeitsmodell ist eine niedrigdimensionale Projektion der unvorstellbar reicheren physikalischen Wirklichkeit, die uns umgibt.

appearance of a world is consciousness. But the decisive step to an Ego Machine is the next one. If a system can integrate an equally transparent internal image of itself into this phenomenal reality, then it will appear to itself. It will become an Ego and a naive realist about whatever its self-model says it is.

Ground not upon dreams you know they are ever contrary.

Our eyes are sentinels unto our judgements, And should give certain judgement what they see; But they are rash sometimes, and tell us wonders Of common things, which when our judgments find, They can then check the eyes, and call them blind.

The key to seeing the world's soul, and in the process wakening our own, is to get over the confusion by which we think that fact is real and imagination is illusion.

Because certainty isn't the same as truth. It just means you're really, really deluded.

The grime of living is so much more interesting than the shine of eternity, I've always thought." He

Objectivity of whatever kind is not the test of reality. It is just one way of understanding reality.

Physical science has progressed by leaving the mind out of what it tries to explain, but there may be more to the world than can be understood by physical science.

The subjectivity of consciousness is an irreducible feature of reality, and it must occupy as fundamental a place in any credible world view as matter, energy, space, time and numbers.

If you can't prove that anything exists outside you own mind, is it all right to go on believing in the external world anyway?

To deny the reality or logical significance of what we can never describe or understand is the crudest form of cognitive dissonance.

The way the world is includes appearances, and there is no single point of view from which they can all be fully grasped!. An

All these theories are motivated by an epistemological criterion of reality—that only what can be understood in a certain way exists.

Persons and other conscious beings are part of the natural order, and their mental states are part of the way the world is in itself.

There may or may not be an external world, and if there is it may or may not be completely different from how it seems to you—there's no way for you to tell. This view is called skepticism about the external world.

To deny the reality or logical significance of what we can never describe or understand is the crudest form form of cognitive dissonance.

Impressions and appearances that do not correspond to reality must be contrasted with others that do correspond to reality, or else the contrast between appearance and reality is meaningless.

Si yo fuera solipsista, probablemente no habría escrito este libro, pues no creería que hubiese alguien más que lo leyera.

It is painful to behold a man employing his talents to corrupt himself. Nature has been kinder to Mr. Burke than he is to her. He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird.

Mutluluktan mahrum etti?imiz bir topluluktan mutluluk beklemek imkans?zd?r.

He liked her stories for the same reason she told them—they should have happened.

They sent her to the fourteenth floor, which Elle knew was always the thirteenth mislabeled for the people whose idea of the borderline between reality and nonsense was flexible.