Quotes About Reality

God is a wider consciousness than we are, a pure intelligence, spiritual life and actuality. He is neither one nor many, neither man nor spirit. Such predicates belong only to finite beings.

Immediate knowledge tells us only that God is, not what he is. But if God is not an empty Being beyond the stars, he must be present in the communion of human spirits, and, in his relation to these, he is the One Spirit who pervades reality and thought. Hence there can be no final separation between our immediate consciousness of him and our mediated knowledge of reality.

A system of philosophy, or metaphysics, is a union of a world view and a life view in one harmonious, complete, integral conception. In so far as any man strives to attain, by rational inquiry, a consistent and comprehensive view of life and reality, he is a metaphysician.

All my life I had been living. How to imagine any other state?

As you go through life's rich tapestry, you realize that most people you meet aren't fit to shine your shoes. It's a sad fact, but it's true. A good friend is someone who'd hide you if you were on the run for murder. How many of them do you know?

I left the Rocking Vicars, thinking I was going to be a star in my own right immediately. Everything was going to be wonderful and huge women would get a hold of me and do things to me with raw carrots – you know, shit like that. Of course, it didn't happen quite that way.

Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

They didn't understand it, but like so many unfortunate events in life, just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

It is often difficult to admit that someone you love is not perfect, or to consider aspects of a person that are less than admirable.

Everybody will die, but very few people want to be reminded of that fact.

One of the most troublesome things in life is that what you do or do not want has very little to do with what does or does not happen.

This is an absurd moral, for you and I both know that sometimes not only is it good to lie, it is necessary to lie.

But the sad truth is that the truth is sad, and that what you want does not matter. A series of unfortunate events can happen to anyone, no matter what they want.

The story of the Baudelaires takes place in a very real world, where some people are laughed at just because they have something wrong with them, and where children can find themselves all alone in the world, struggling to understand the mystery that surrounds them.

But your imaginings would be ersatz, as all imaginings are.

Everybody will die, of course, sooner or later. Circus performers will die, and clarinet experts will die, and you and I will die, and there might be a person who lives on your block, right now, who is not looking both ways before he crosses the street and who will die in just in a few seconds, all because of a bus. Everybody will die, but very few people want to be reminded of that fact.

Hoping for the best, like hoping for a bat to obey your orders, almost always leads to disappointment.

But the world did not match the picture in my head, and instead I was with a strange, uncombed person, overlooking a sea without water and a forest without trees.

No lo entendían, pero, como tantos otros sucesos desafortunados de la vida, no por no entenderlos dejan de ser ciertos

People who think nothing can go wrong are usually disappointed.

You cannot live far from the treachery of the world, because eventually the treachery will wash up on your shores.

If I were making up a story, I would have it gray and miserable outside, but it was sunny and miserable instead

But like so many unfortunate events in life, just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

No reality has the power to dispel a dream" means that no matter what happens in the world, you can keep thinking about something, particularly if it's something you like.