Quotes About Reality

I wanted to write literature that pushed people into their lives rather than helping people escape from them.

FROM ECSTASY TO AGONY Romantic Love sticks around long enough to bind two people together. Then it rides off into the sunset. And seemingly overnight, your dream marriage can turn into your biggest nightmare.

Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.

Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?

The place where optimism flourishes most is in the lunatic asylum.

The place where optimism flourishes the most is the lunatic asylum.

the place where optism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.

But you can't ever live in the place you dream about, the town you long for. ...the moment you become conscious of your desire, and then fulfill it, it evaporates.

It seems like everything that we see perceived in the brain before we actually use our own eyes, that everything we see is coming through computers or machines and then is being input in our brain cells. So that really worries me.

Modern life is so thin and shallow and fake. I look forward to when developers go bankrupt, Japan gets poorer and wild grasses take over.

True love doesn't always feel good.

My family was my guide to my reality.

The objective of stereotypes is not to reflect or represent a reality but to function as a disguise, or mystification, of objective social relations.

Nothing is as old as the truth, and nothing is as new as the truth.

It is living in sensation that makes man material, and after some time he becomes ignorant of the spirit.

Heaven and hell are the material manifestation of agreeable and disagreeable thoughts.

Wir alle sind das, wovon wir uns bewusst sind. Gefängnisinsassen wissen von ihrem Gefängnis. Menschen, die viel Geld auf der Bank haben, aber dessen nicht bewusst sind, sind trotz ihres Reichtums arm. Wir haben nur das, wovon wir bewusst sind. Deshalb beruht unsere Größe oder unsere Kleinheit auf unserem Bewusstsein. Selbst eine erleuchtete Seele zu werden, beruht nur auf einem Unterschied im Bewusstsein. (s. 181)

And then we think that if these conditions would only change into something that we wish, it would make our life easier. But that is an inexperienced expectation. If we were placed in the very conditions that we had just desired, believing them to be the best, we would not even then say that we were quite satisfied. We would surely find something lacking in that condition also. For

for to know reality is to know all that is to be known.

The existence of illness in the body may no doubt be called a shadow of the true illness which is held by man in his mind.

postmoderns have lost faith in the idea of objective verification. Instead, they focus on the persuasive power of the stories we tell

I love the thinginess of things.

Truth is stranger than fiction, which is why reality TV is so popular."

it is the human discovery of that molecule that has elevated it to the status of being studied. It was there all along, but now we have imbued it with mystical qualities. Our discovery of it changes nothing about what it does. We often mistake an effect (e.g., of an action, a treatment, a molecule) for our understanding of the effect. What a thing does, and what we think (or know) that it does, are not the same thing.