Quotes About Reality

We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.

Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing.

Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.

The map is not the territory.

It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.

Three-fourths of philosophy and literature is the talk of people trying to convince themselves that they really like the cage they were tricked into entering.

The only part of you that hurts when you're given the truth is the part that lives on lies.

Our understanding is correlative to our perception.

I have never seen either angels or goddesses, so I am not interested in painting them.

Philosophy leads to death, sociology leads to suicide.

Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?

The state of man's mind, or the elementary phase of mind which he so far possesses, conforms precisely to the state of the world as he so far views it

Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.

Between living and dreaming there is a third thing. Guess it.

I got an A in philosophy because I proved my professor didn't exist.

Let us face ourselves bravely as we are. For only a philosophy that recognizes reality can lead us into true happiness, and only that kind of philosophy is sound and healthy.

The cause of laughter is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the real project.

Philosophy does not exist. It is nothing but an hypostatized abstraction.

All philosophies are mental fabrications. There has never been a single doctrine by which one could enter the true essence of things.

Love, I think, is a gateway to the world, not an escape from it.

The spectacle is at the same time the mirage of self in the mirror of things.

Imagination is the other end of Reality.

Let whoever can do so deceive me, he will never bring it about that I am nothing, so long as I continue to think I am something.

If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.