Quotes About Reality

In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations.

What cannot be borne in reality, becomes a source of pleasure when it is transposed into the visual and somatic fiction of the dramatic spectacle.

Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.

while I complain of being able to glimpse no more than the shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is taking shape at this very moment, since I have not reached the stage of development at which I would be capable of perceiving it.

Aceptar como tema de discusión, una categoría que nos parece falsa nos expone siempre a un riesgo: el de mantener, en virtud de la atención que se le presta, alguna ilusión acerca de su realidad.

Happiness, of all myths the least likely.

Yearning is not only a good way to go crazy but also a pretty good place to hide out from hard truth.

Ici apparaît la vérité profonde que la méthode objective tend par essence à nous révéler: la vie intérieure n'existe pas, le plan psychologique n'offre aucune réalité, la conscience n'a pas d'importance.

When you find out that everything about your reality is just an illusion, it's hard not to completely shut down.

Here's the best thing about being a writer: it's like having a magic wand to make whatever you want happen to imaginary people in a made-up world. Here's the worst thing about being a writer: it makes you wish even more that you had a magic wand to make whatever you want happen to actual people in your own real life" -Autumn

Intentá ser feliz sin mentiras ni delirios", escribió el abuelo en la carta dirigida a mí, la que podía leer solo. Que hubiera elegido el verbo intentar me resultó clave:

Y a veces la gente demasiado sensible camina por una cornisa muy fina entre la realidad y sus pensamientos.

life will test us. For real, not a dress rehearsal. And on that day we will finally realise that we are all alone, forced to face ourselves, with no lies left to cling to.

La verdad que se nos niega duele hasta el último día

Memory is a tough place. You were there. If this is not the truth, it is also not a lie.

I tried to fit language into the shape of usefulness. The world moves through words as if the bodies the words reflect do not exist.

People feel hurt when you point out the reality that forms experience because the reality is not their emotional experience.

The lack of an integrated life meant that no part of his life recognized the treatment of black people as an important disturbance. To not remember is perhaps not to feel touched by events that don't interfere with your livelihood. This is the reality that defines white privilege no matter how much money one has or doesn't have. From Appalachia to Fifth Avenue, my precarity is not a reality shared.

Because the foundations for loneliness begin in the dreamscapes you create. Their resemblance to reality reflects disappointment first.

I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist ... or maybe even a pessimist. The glass has water in it; that's all I know.

You cannot expect everything even from the friendliest cat. It is still a cat.

I do not know if God is a mathematician, but mathematics is the loom upon which God weaves the fabric of the universe....The fact that reality can be described or approximated by simple mathematical expressions suggests to me that nature has mathematics at its core.

We thought all the time that we were passing through time when we really weren't, when we never have. We've just been moving along with time. We said, there's another second gone, there's another minute and another hour and another day, when, as a matter of fact the second or the minute or the hour was never gone. It was the same one all the time. It had just moved along and we had moved with it.

But such an affection for what doesn't fit and won't comport, reality out of place...