Quotes About Reality

There is nevertheless a value in painting these pictures of our desire; man's significances is that he can image a better world, and will some part of it at least into reality; man is an animal that makes Utopias. (p.47/543)

Kant's greatest merit," says Schopenhauer, "is the distinction of the phenomenon from the thing-in-itself.

There is nevertheless a value in painting these pictures of our desire; man's significances is that he can image a better world, and will some part of it at least into reality; man is an animal that makes Utopias. (Chapter on Plato p.47/543)

Perhaps, within these limits, we can learn enough from history to bear reality patiently, and to respect one another's delusions.

Everything, in so far as it is in itself, endeavors to persist in its own being; and the endeavor wherewith a thing seeks to persist in its own being is nothing else than the actual essence of that thing";65 the power whereby a thing persists is the core and essence of its being.

I've never subscribed to the notion that poverty is quaint or that isolation is somehow ennobling. And anyway, this is Rwanda. There is very little innocence left to lose.

WARNING! Life leads to old age, illness and death.

I'm a guy with a disease that eventually kills everybody who has it, and eventually it's going to kill me. I am glad it wasn't today. I hope it's not for a long, long time. But let's not kid ourselves. It's going to happen, and when it happens, I don't want Marjani or Travis or my mom or this Jennifer person who is suddenly the matriarch of this weird little family to be kicking themselves up and down over it.

Locked inside the black vault of our skulls, stuck forever in the solitude of our own hallucinated universe, story is a portal, a hallucination within the hallucination, the closest we'll ever really come to escape.

The only thing we'll ever really know are those electrical pulses that are sent up by our senses.

We've come to understand over the past hundred years that information is colored with subjectivity: What we know depends on how we interpret our information base.

But we don't live in a perfect world. We live in a world where gossip passes for news, and sensationalism passes for journalism. - Christina McCall

Anybody who expects privacy in the internet is delusional . - Ben Kincaid

You have to realize just because things don't have tangible reality, that doesn't mean they don't exist. Ideas are just as real as people and property. Ideas have changed the world profoundly to an extent most people never approach - Father Beale

Kincaid, there's a reason why stereotypes become stereotypes. It's because they're true. - Harold Sacks

This life's dim windows of the soul Distorts the heavens from pole to pole And leads you to believe a lie When you see with, not through, the eye.

Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.

Everything to be imagined is an image of truth.

How do you know but ev'ry Bird that cuts the airy way, Is an immense world of delight, clos'd by your senses five?

Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory.

Do what you will, this life's a fiction, And it is made up of contradiction.

Man has no Body distinct from his soul; for that called Body is a portion of a Soul discerned by the five senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.

Than you'll see the world as it is : infinte.

All that we saw was owing to your metaphysics.