Quotes About Reality

E allora l'uomo è più straniero nella parte del boia che in quella del condannato; più nella verità se manovra la ghigliottina, e meno se ci sta sotto.

Naturalmente... Ma sa com'è? Una volta, in un libro di filosofia, a proposito del relativismo, ho letto che il fatto che noi, ad occhio nudo, non vediamo le zampe dei vermi del formaggio non è ragione per credere che i vermi non le vedano... Io sono un verme dello stesso formaggio, e vedo le zampe degli altri vermi.

Ma le cose, dentro di noi, sono sempre maledettamente complicate; e tanto più inganniamo noi stessi, o tentiamo, quanto più evidente e immediato si prospetta il disinganno.

Reality is always richer, more unpredictable than our deductions

Ecco che lei torna alle parole che decidono, alle parole che dividono: migliore, peggiore; giusto, ingiusto; bianco, nero. E tutto invece non è che una caduta, una lunga caduta: come nei sogni...

E l'anima che mente, non il corpo. "Il nostro corpo e il buon cane che che guida il cieco".

Per lei, vedo, la bellezza non ha niente a che fare con la verità." "La verità è nel fondo di un pozzo: lei guarda in un pozzo e vede il sole o la luna; ma se si butta giù non c'è più né sole né luna, c'è la verità.

Die Mathematik ist es, die uns vor dem Trug der Sinne schützt und uns den Unterschied zwischen Schein und Wahrheit kennen lehrt.

Ah well, 'tis the way of the world -- births and deaths, births and deaths.

What do those people think? That there is nothing more terrible than death. They themselves have invented Death, they are themselves afraid of it, and they try to frighten us with it.

He did not dissociate his thought from himself; he thought integrally, with the whole of his body; and each logical deduction forthwith became real to him—as happens only with very healthy or direct persons who have not yet turned thought into a pastime.

And he was tortured not by the fact that Death was visible, but that both Life and Death were visible at the same time.

Don't count on the power of your love or your nagging to create something that wasn't there to begin with.

Inner liberation stems from the ability to face life's challenges without drama, escape, or avoidance. The way to begin this path is by confronting our darkest truths and accepting our reality. Only then can we unshackle ourselves.

Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.

Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.

Never let someone else's opinion of you become your reality

Don't let someone else's opinion of you become your reality

Just in case you haven't been told yet, life is not fair. It's not fair that birds eat worms, but they do!

My head was spinning but I made myself go to sleep by imagining that I was not a real person at all but the song in the throat of a sparrow.

Waiting anxiously for you, Unable to sleep, but falling into a doze— Are those words of love Floating to my pillow, Or is this too a dream . . . ? My eyes open and here is my tear-drenched sleeve. Perhaps it was a sudden rain.

To idealize someone is also, in a way, to dehumanize them,

Muhammad's is one of those rare lives that is more dramatic in reality than in legend. In fact the less one invokes the miraculous, the more extraordinary his life becomes.

The great British philosopher and historian R. G. Collingwood maintained in The Idea of History that to write well about a historical figure, you need both empathy and imagination. By this he did not mean spinning tales out of thin air, but taking what is known and examining it in the full context of time and place, following the strands of the story until they begin to intertwine and establish a thick braid of reality.