Quotes About Reality

Our current higher education system is steeped in a philosophy that doubts our ability to even perceive the physical world. That philosophy is called postmodernism.

Postmodernists have been at the leading edge of promoting the view that reality is socially constructed.

One of the most outstanding conclusions of some postmodernists is that all of reality is socially constructed. They have even taken issue with the conclusions of Newton and Einstein, on the basis that the privilege of those scientists is obvious in their equations and, as old white guys, their biases inherently prevented them from knowing anything real of the world.

In each case, the belief is literally false, but metaphorically true.

This means that the cover story isn't true, but when people behave as if it were, they prosper.

Lie really could be construed as the art of illusion by some people.

what's real doesn't always matter. What people think has been done to them can be just as serious as what really happened.

if we feel guilt, if we believe it in our own minds, that's what's true to us.

Yet this chirpy insistence on positivity has a strange way of enhancing the dread and anxiety and melancholy that lie just beneath the surface of things.

At some point you just have to let go of what you thought should happen and live in what is happening.

Sometimes life isn't what you thought it would be it's just what it is.

Can a girl find true love if she doesn't believe it exists?

I didn't want to hear that people lived happily ever after. I wanted to know that other people suffered, too.

Born Into Reality Towards Heaven this is your birth right because we were all born from the same source and because we were born into our bodies. Therefore everyone is ascended equally.

So what are your poems about? They're about ... how nothing is about, they're not about about. --Heather McHugh, 20-200 on 747

Physicists now know that 70 per cent of the known universe is dark energy. Dark matter is another 25 per cent. Once we thought we knew all about life, but it turns out everything we think of as reality is less than 5 per cent.

Schizophrenia is without a doubt the most dreaded psychological disorder. If depression is the common cold of psychological disorders, schizophrenia is the cancer." The cancer.

Life when one first arrives is a continual mortification as one's romantic illusions are successively shattered and the musical treasure-house of one's imagination crumbles before the hopelessness of the reality. Every day fresh experiences bring fresh disappointments.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as much as you please. —Mark Twain

I wonder if I'm going crazy. I think I read somewhere - or was it something I learned in psychology class? - that people often make up their own reality as a means of coping with what their brains can't possible handle. The idea comforts me, because while no one else out there seems to be trying to protect or save me, at least maybe my brain in.

It's weird how we do that, you know, just fill in the blanks with our own answer key. -- I think we create our own reality, our own truths. If we believe it to be so, then it is so.

Just because it's made up, doesn't mean it isn't real," said Penn. "Made up is the most powerful real there is.

If you wrote your own characters, they didn't disappoint you like real people did.

This is how you cook a novel. Some made up, some real life, all true.