Quotes About Reality

We just have to accept that life is perfectly imperfect.

How disturbing it is that our illusions are often our most important beliefs.

Baseball is a lot like the ivy-covered wall of Wrigley Field--it gives off a great appearance, but when you run into it, you discover the bricks underneath. At times, it seems that we're dealing with a group of men who aren't much different than others we've all run into over the years, except they wear neckties instead of robes and hoods.

As Os Guinness explains, Christianity is not true because it works (pragmatism); it is not true because it feels right (subjectivism); it is not true because it is "my truth" (relativism). It is true because it is anchored in the person of Christ. Furthermore, truth is anything that corresponds to reality.

First, the fact that something cannot be seen does not presuppose that it doesn't exist. We know that black holes, electrons, the laws of logic, and the law of gravity exist despite the fact that we cannot see them.

Hell is God's great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.

The subjective texture of our conscious mental experiences—the feeling of pain, the experience of sound, the awareness of color—is different from anything that is simply physical. If the world were only made of matter these subjective aspects of consciousness would not exist. But they do exist! So there must be more to the world than matter.

I ain't gonna worry wrinkles in my brow, cuz nothin's never gonna be alright nohow. No matter how I struggle and strive, I'll never get out of this world alive.

Tylko literatura mo?e uprzytomni? ?wiatu jego nienormalno??. Nie historia... tylko literatura.

Cliches, stock phrases, adherence to conventional, standardized codes of expression and conduct have the socially recognized function of protecting us against reality.

By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.

The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.

Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of man who can fabricate it.

Clichés, stock phrases, adherence to conventional, standardized codes of expression and conduct have the socially recognized function of protecting us against reality, that is, against the claim on our thinking attention that all events and facts make by virtue of their existence.

The third world is not a reality, but an ideology.

The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

The woman was sane; she accepted the heavy penalties of reality and enjoyed its gifts also.

From bitter experience she knew that pictures thrown on the screen of her imagination could seem much more unnerving and terrible than the actual facts.

You've got to have faith to make the journey. For some, it might take 40 days; for others, 40 years. And, unfortunately, there will be many that will never see their promise become a reality at all - not because God can't do it - because they don't have the faith to believe that he really can

Das, was wirklich ist, kann man mit Wörtern ohnehin immer nur annähernd beschreiben; ein Wort ist eben nie genau die Sache selber.

Meinst du, es gäbe nichts außer dem, was du dir vorstellen kannst?

Aristotle formulated the same point in more sober terms when he said that, that which sees becomes colored itself, so to speak, :and that the reality of the perceived and the reality of the perceiving are identical.

The ecclesial body was the sacramental reality to which the Eucharist pointed and in which it participated.