Quotes About Reality

Governments may know a lot more about our lives than we care to contemplate, but frequently they know less about the world than we presume.

All the romance of trout fishing exists in the mind of the angler and is in no way shared by the fish.

It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises but only performance is reality.

Performance is your reality. Forget everything else.

You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

in most of us, by the age of 30, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again. (William James)...we are not forced to accept the hardening of our field of knowledge, a kind of psychosclerosis. There is no disgrace in not knowing everything. The problem is being unwilling to reach beyond what one knows to a broader, fuller reality.

Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.

I know the place I know the place. It is true. Everything we do Corrects the space Between death and me And you.

There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.

When you lead a life of scholarship you can't be bothered with the humorous realities, you know, tits, that kind of thing.

The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.

I can't believe that what anyone is at this moment saying has ever happened has never happened. Nothing has ever happened. Nothing. This is the only thing that has ever happened.

The reality of living was never greater than when you held death clutched tightly in your hands.

LIFE" made it possible, "DEATH" made it necessary!

I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises - but only performance is reality.

You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.

Think of it this way: no scientist has ever seen an electron, but all scientists agree that electrons exist. No physicist has ever seen a quark, but all physicists believe that quarks are real. Why? Because when they look into their microscopes, they see things happening that could only happen if quarks and electrons existed. I believe in the reality of God the way scientists believe in the reality of electrons. I see things happening that would not happen unless there is a God.

I believe in the reality of God the way scientists believe in the reality of electrons. I see things happening that would not happen unless there is a God.

Instead of exhausting ourselves trying to reshape the world to fit our dreams, we are better off using our strength to comfort one another in a world that is almost certain to mock our dreams and break our hearts.

through the lives and souls of specific individuals. The truth is, life is unfair, and we would do well to come to terms with that fact.

To wish to forget the hope because it wasn't realized, to try to cleanse your mind of the beautiful dream because it didn't come true, is to miss out on lie altogether, because life is designed to be lived in an alternation of hours of sunlight and hours of darkness.

The virtuous man is contempt to dream what the wicked man really does.

It's not just extreme deviance that distinguishes the fantasy life of psychopaths but their overpowering urge to translate their sickest fantasies into fact. The most extravagant erotic daydreams of normal people always run up against what Freud called "the reality principle.