Quotes About Reality

Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love.

Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.

Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.

Human thought, flying on the trapezes of the star-filled universe, with mathematics stretched beneath, was like an acrobat working with a net but suddenly noticing that in reality there is no net.

What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational

To be is to be perceived

Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.

Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose.

I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.

The triumph of the philosophy of Atheism is to free man from the nightmare of gods; it means the dissolution of the phantoms of the beyond.

If nothing is the way it seems, then this life is just a haunted dream.

Nothing is easier than to simplify life and them make a philosophy about it. The trouble is that the resulting philosophy is true only of that simplified life.

Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.

The menu is not the meal.

Any materialist philosophy must take as its point of departure the existence of a material world that is independent of our minds.

Philosophy is a goddess, whose head indeed is in heaven, but whose feet are upon earth; she attempts more than she accomplishes, and promises more than she performs.

There is your truth and there is my truth. As for the universal truth, it does not exist.

Reality has always proved to be much more sophisticated and subtle than any preconceived philosophy.

Philosophy appears to concern itself only with the truth, but perhaps expresses only fantasies, while literature appears to concern itself only with fantasies, but perhaps it expresses the truth.

The astonishment of life is the absence of any appearances of reconciliation between the theory and the practice of life.

REALITY, n. The dream of a mad philosopher. That which would remain in the cupel if one should assay a phantom. The nucleus of a vacuum.

No reality transforms itself.

Faith and philosophy are air, but events are brass.

My philosophy is inverted Platonism: the further a thing is from true being, the purer, the lovelier, the better it is. Living inillusion as a goal!