Quotes About Reality

The turbulent billows of the fretful surface leave the deep parts of the ocean undisturbed; and to him who has a hold on vaster and more permanent realities, the hourly vicissitudes of his personal destiny seem relatively insignificant things. The really religious person is accordingly unshakable and full of equanimity, and calmly ready for any duty that the day may bring forth

and what I know from my studies and from my life is that there is no such thing as a true event. We know dates and times and locations and participants but accounts of what happened depend upon the perspective from which the event is viewed.

Art is something which lies in the slender margin between the real and the unreal.

Heaven might not be what everyone thinks it is, but that don't mean it's a myth.

There's something intrinsically radical about the fantastic aesthetic - starting from the premise that the impossible is true, attempting to undermine expectations.

It's not just us keeping them apart. It's everyone in Beszel and everyone in Ul Qoma. Every minute, every day. We're only the last ditch: it's everyone in the cities who does most of the work. It works because you don't blink. That's why unseeing and unsensing are so vital. No one can admit it doesn't work. So if you don't admit it, it does. But if you breach, even if it's not your fault, for more than the shortest time ... you can't come back from that.

Surrealism comes for us all, Thibaut thinks.

Oh, believe me, I know the story," he said. "It's a crutch, isn't it? It's a fairy tale. For the weak. It's stupidity. See

sometimes-guns, that violently assert the manchmal, this stuff, our everyday, against the always of the immer.

The problem with most genre fantasy is that it's not nearly fantastic enough. It's escapist, but it can't escape.

The ?tman, the pure Consciousness, gets Itself deluded by Its own delusion and by Itself projects out the 'pluralistic world' which is nothing but Itself, It being the all-pervading and eternal.

No j?va is ever born; there exists no cause to produce it. That is the highest Truth, where nothing is ever born'.

Just as in the dream, the agitated mind creates a delusory dream world and the dreamer identifying himself with it takes it to be real and gains experience thereunder; so too in the waking state, the waker's mind being agitated, projects itself to a world of delusory plurality and he gains therein his experience of a world, seemingly real for him for the time being.

The reality of today, different as it is from the reality of my society one hundred years ago, is and can be important if we have the energy and the inclination to challenge it, to go out and engage with its peculiarities, with the things that we do not understand. The real danger is the tendency to retreat into the obvious, the tendency to be frightened by the richness of the world and to clutch what we always have understood.

The writer is often faced with two choices--turn away from the reality of life's intimidating complexity or conquer its mystery by battling with it. The writer who chooses the former soon runs out of energy and produces elegantly tired fiction.

My theory of the uses of fiction is that benificent fiction calls into full life our total range of imaginative faculties and gives us a heightened sense of our personal, social and human reality.

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

There is no story that is not true.

People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.

but hate rarely looks at the truth.

Widen Your Options. Reality-Test Your Assumptions. Attain Distance Before Deciding. Prepare to Be Wrong.

Language is often abstract, but life is not abstract. Teachers

Doesn't the imagination always exaggerate—or diminish—truth?

But truth, when it's being lived, is less glamorous than our imaginings.