Quotes About Reality

We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason outselves into it.

We can only begin to live when we conceive life as Tragedy.

If I make the lashes dark And the eyes more bright And the lips more scarlet, Or ask if all be right From mirror after mirror, No vanity's displayed: I'm looking for the face I had Before the world was made.

Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.

Man can embody the truth but he cannot know it.

There is another world, but it is in this one.

Reflecting from the vantage of more than a century, we can see today how trapped the leaders of the South felt in 1860. That the snare was only partially genuine, and partially in their imaginations and fears, made it no less real to them at the time. They had to act on the basis of what they knew and believed, and the fact that subsequent events and detached dispassionate study reveal that some of their belief was chimerical does not signify.

beauty' is related not to 'loveliness' but to a state in which reality plays a part.

Riches have wings, and grandeur is a dream.

Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.

Our plesance here is all vain glory,This false world is but transitory.

So, the world happens twice-- once what we see it as; second it legends itself deep, the way it is.

A man might pass for insane who should see things as they are.

Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection.

Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right.

Women lie about their age men lie about their income.

If it is not beautiful for someone, it does not exist.

Why do you treat me as they do, as though I were exactly what I want to be. Why do we treat people that way?

How real is any of the past, being every moment revalued to make the present possible...

Freud thought that a psychosis was a waking dream, and that poets were daydreamers too, but I wonder if the reverse is not as often true, and that madness is a fiction lived in like a rented house

He thinks he's all aces but he's mostly sevens and eights.

Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort.

Things aren't different. Things are things.