Quotes About Reality

The truth is bigger than the stories people tell themselves and bigger than the lies they live with.

Somewhere between the fact we know and the anxiety we feel is the reality we live."5

The self-congratulatory popular account insists that Dr. King called on the nation to fully accept its own creed, and the walls came a-tumbling down. This conventional narrative is soothing, moving, and politically acceptable, and has only the disadvantage of bearing no resemblance to what actually happened.

beliefs are perhaps more allegorical than factual.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, the poet and philosopher who thought reality was best experienced through a soul in tune with the rhythms of the earth.

But even if the Fourth of July celebrants in Kokomo knew about the Big Lie of Stephenson's life, would it have mattered? They believed because they wanted to believe.

I am beginning to believe that nothing is quite so uncertain as facts. (Edward Curtis)

These individuals have riches just as we say that we 'have a fever,' when really the fever has us." –Seneca Roman Stoic philosopher, famed playwright

The commonsense rules of the "real world" are a fragile collection of socially reinforced illusions.

everything around you that you call 'life' was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And

No one is qualified to tell you how you experience the world." Vlad Zamfir

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. —ALBERT

Life can be much broader, once you discover one simple fact, and that is that everything around you that you call 'life' was made up by people that were no smarter than you.

we think we understand the world, giving investors a false sense of confidence, when in fact we always more or less misunderstand it.

So they believe the trend makes no sense. But what makes no sense is their model of the world. That's what doesn't make sense. The world always makes sense.

Reality is negotiable. Outside of science and law, all rules can be bent or broken, and it doesn't require being unethical

Las reglas de sentido común del «mundo real» son una frágil colección de ilusiones reforzadas por la sociedad.

Ludwig Wittgenstein,

Somewhere between college graduation and your second job, a chorus enters your internal dialogue: Be realistic and stop pretending. Life isn't like the movies.

In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.

So if you're planning to do something with your life, if you have a 10-year plan of how to get there, you should ask: Why can't you do this in 6 months? Sometimes, you have to actually go through the complex, 10-year trajectory. But it's at least worth asking whether that's the story you're telling yourself, or whether that's the reality.

Reality is negotiable. Outside of science and law, all rules can be bent or broken, and it doesn't require being unethical. The DEAL of deal making is also an acronym for the process of becoming a member of the New Rich.

Ignore the unfairness—there is no fair. Play the hand that you're dealt to the best of your ability. People are highly consistent, so you will eventually get what you deserve and so will they. In the end, everyone gets the same judgment: death.

Map and Territory and How to Actually Change Your Mind by Eliezer Yudkowsky.