Quotes About Reality

Fact is what people believe.

Don't let your mouth write a check that your ass can't cash, son.

Nothing I like to do pays well.

to tell an emotional truth rather than an actual one.

It's true that the importance of illusion in human life is not to be underestimated, but for the Christian it is essential to have a hope which is based on solid foundations." —LETTERS AND PAPERS FROM PRISON

Every man is fully satisfied that there is such a thing as truth, or he would not ask any question.

Are you sure twice two are four? Not at all. A certain percentage of the human race are insane and subject to illusions. It may be you are one of them, and that your idea that twice two is four is a lunatic notion, and your seeming recollection that other people think so, the baseless fabric of a vision.

Dear Friedrich, the world's still false, cruel and beautiful...

And of course, for all we know, I might be a hundred years old already, and she just a sleepy little girl with glasses.

Filosóficamente no puede confiarse en los ojos.

Estranged from family and friends While racking our brains whether The world we see is truly out there, Or it never leaves our minds.

Sleeplessness is like metaphysics. Be there.

Pain-Avoiding Psychological Denial One should recognize reality even when one doesn't like it.

Forgetting your mistakes is a terrible error if you're trying to improve your cognition. Reality doesn't remind you. Why not celebrate stupidities in both categories?

Experience is that wherein our previous sense of reality is undone, refuted, and shows itself as needing to be reconstituted. It occurs precisely in those moments where the object 'talks back'.

But what kind of love? It had so many faces, so many names. Jealousy wove a thread around it, and envy, and fear. People died for love–and killed for it. And yet in itself it was indefinable, it wore whatever passions people brought to it, like a mountebank, with no reality of its own.

Ye ken, it's the living and no' the dead who know the truth. The dead still believe it was worth dying for." ? Charles Todd, Racing the Devil

Dying goes on in the midst of life.

In a slick manifesto called Cosmos, Carl Sagan artfully packaged his own creed: "The Cosmos is all there is, or was, or ever will be.

Genuine Christianity is more than a relationship with Jesus, as expressed in personal piety, church attendance, Bible study, and works of charity. It is more than discipleship, more than believing a system of doctrines about God. Genuine Christianity is a way of seeing and comprehending all reality. It is a worldview.

I am not trying to seduce you. "I know that. But please, Mrs. Robinson. This is difficult for me." "Why is it," she said "Because I am confused about things. I can't tell what I'm imagining. I can't tell what's real. I can't --" "Would you like me to seduce you?" "What?" "Is that what you're trying to tell me?

Economics is like gravity: Ignore it and you will be in for some rude surprises.

In fact it [Venturi's design] is best described not simply as a response to the program but as a response to the reality behind the program.

don't believe in these things. There's London and us and the things we know.