Quotes About Reality

Ludwig Wittgenstein

When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies

Empiricism in the sciences is a method; naturalism in philosophy is a metaphysics; and the latter neither follows from nor underlies the former.

When appearance and reality coincide, philosophy and literary criticism find themselves with nothing to say.

Most mistakes in philosophy and logic occur because the human mind is apt to take the symbol for the reality.

I think philosophy is all about lived experience, which is to say life in the streets, life in a variety of different contexts.

Life is sad, life is a bust, all you can do is do what you must.

Every man knows that he will die: and nobody believes it. On that paradox stand not only a host of religions but the entity of a sane being.

The world is mere change, and this life, opinion.

Tantric Buddhism means that we become mature adults and we learn the reality of chaos theory.

Without time," the angel said, "you have only the bottomless, shapeless mire of eternity." "FYI, philosophy bores me." "Not philosophy. Reality. Time is what gives life significance.

Sexuality, for the person who practices tantra, is a marvelous way to experience illusion. Illusion is just another way of seeing things. There are no illusions because there is no self.

In metaphysics, the notion that earth and all that's on it is a mental construct is the product of people who spend their lives inside rooms. It is an indoor philosophy.

Philosophy asks the simple question: What is it all about?

I'm not sorry, it's human nature.

The basic philosophy of stoicism is that you have nothing real external to your own consciousness, that the only thing real is in fact your consciousness.

Men accept without questioning that this world is real and important and worthwhile. This is faith. Philosophy is the ongoing questioning of this faith.

The first business of philosophy is to account for things as they are; and till our theories will do this, they ought not to be the ground of any practical conclusion.

If we are in a high enough state of consciousness we see that life is only a passing dream.

the blessings of matrimony, like those of poverty, belong rather to philosophy than reality.

Reply to Plato: I seen horses I seen cows I haint never yet seen horsiness nor that there bovinity neither.

Intellect is merely a narrow and highly specific kind of thing that we DO, but our immediacy relates us to what we naturally and essentially ARE, the actualities of our full-dimensional existence.

I am concerned, rather, that there should not be more things dreamt of in my philosophy than there are in heaven or earth.

By the grace of reality and the nature of life, man—every man—is an end in himself, he exists for his own sake, and the achievement of his own happiness is his highest moral purpose.