Quotes About Reality

A word of faith that never balks Here, or henceforward it is all the same to me I accept Time absolutely It alone is without flaw It alone rounds and completes all That mystic baffling wonder alone completes all I accept Reality and dare not question it

true revolution in our relationship to reality, that emerges out of the idea that a species is not whole unless a relationship between the living and the dead is an ordinary part of life.

the fundamentally paradoxical ways that our very subjectivities are constituted: as cultural scripts, as texts written before us as us. It is confusing being a novel, a piece of fiction that considers itself a simple fact.

Max Tegmark in his book Our Mathematical Universe.

You would not tell with such high zest to children ardent for some desperate glory the old lie: Dulce Et Decorum Est Pro Patria Mori.

My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.

In the case of lived experience, there is no difference between an object that is perceived and the eye that perceives it.

In the real life-process, willing, feeling, and thinking are only different aspects.

On the other hand, for the whole human being who wills, feels, and represents, external reality is given simultaneously and with as much certitude as his own self.

The thing is fear cant hurt you anymore than a dream(Lord of the flies)

Through all the ways of our unintelligible world, the trivial and the terrible walk hand in hand together.

But then I am an imaginative man; and the butcher, the baker, and the tax-gatherer are not the only credible realities in existence to my mind.

Nada hay en este mundo, Betteredge, que se aparezca como una cosa probable, si no logramos vincularla con nuestra engañosa experiencia, y sólo creemos en lo novelesco cuando se halla estampado en letras de molde.

Democritus (460-360 B.C.)— in reality there is nothing but atoms and space.

In short, Aristotle destroys the soul in order to give it immortality; the immortal soul is pure thought, undefiled with reality, just as Aristotle's God is pure activity, undefiled with action. Let him who can, be comforted with this theology. One wonders sometimes whether this metaphysical eating of one's cake and keeping it is not Aristotle's subtle Way of saving himself from anti-Macedonian hemlock?

Life is not made for happiness, but for achievement. The history of the world is not the theatre of happiness; periods of happiness are blank pages in it, for they are periods of harmony; and this dull content is unworthy of man. History is made only in those periods in which the contradictions of reality are being resolved by growth, as the hesitations of and awkwardness of youth pass into the ease and order of maturity.

Men look to love and life for everything; they receive a little less than that; they imagine that they have received nothing: these are the three stages of the pessimist.

To bear all naked truths, And to envisage circumstance, all calm: That is the top of sovereignty.

The world is not "my idea," as Schopenhauer called it; it is a stern reality of which you and I are passing spawns.

The total picture of life is almost too painful for contemplation; life depends on our not knowing it too well.

Laplace is reported to have said on his deathbed that science was mere trifling, and that nothing was real but love.

Bad and good are prejudices which the eternal reality cannot recognize;

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

Materialism is like a grammar that recognizes only nouns; but reality, like language, contains action as well as objects, verbs as well as substantives, life and motion as well as matter.