Quotes About Reality

the problem here is that in the 20th century we have lost the relationship between imagination and fact.

Quite hypnotising a somewhat popeyed circle, he declared that there was no such thing as fantasy. There was a scale of illusions, declared he, which could be more or less solid according to the way they were sold.

as humans, we automatically attach a whole string of judgments, interpretations, questions, and beliefs to situations. Our task involves accepting the imperfection of our own humanity and loving ourselves for having these judgments, including the one that says we must be a spiritually moribund person for creating this reality.

I dreamed the world was an awful place," he said. "It wasn't a dream," she told him.

I FIND THAT MORE AND MORE PEOPLE FAIL TO SEE THINGS THAT ARE RIGHT UNDER THEIR NOSES.

The growth of these markets therefore seemed to reduce the need for information, other than the self-referential information being produced by the markets about themselves. This came to represent a higher reality than the 'real' economy.

Lumea se întemeiaz? pe înÈ™el?ciune, iar viaÈ›a este o iluzie. ?i sufletu-i o iluzie. Trebuie, totuÈ™i, s? ai atâta minte ca s? È™tii s? deosebeÈ™ti iluziile pl?cute de cele nepl?cute. În hypocaustum, poruncesc s? se ard? lemn de cedru pres?rat cu ambr?, pentru c? în via?? prefer aromele, nu duhoarea.

Com os olhos abertos, repartimos o mesmo mundo; com os olhos fechados cada um de nós penetra o seu próprio mundo.

Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death.

The waking have one world in common; sleepers have each a private world of his own.

Men forget where the way leads and what they meet with every day seems strange to them.We should not act and speak like men asleep.

Because it is so unbelievable, the truth often escapes being known.

The waking have one world in common. Sleepers meanwhile turn aside, each into a darkness of his own.

If all things were turned to smoke, the nostrils would distinguish them.

No entienden los más las cosas con las que se topan, ni pese haberlas aprendido las conocen, pero a ellos se lo parece

Sleeping people live in their own world; only those who are awake have a world in common.

Non troverai mai la verità se non sei disposto ad accettare anche quello che non ti aspetti.

Into the same rivers we both step and do not step; we both are and are not.

The other great error in advertising is to expect more out of advertising than there is in it.

The world of immediate experience?the world in which we find ourselves living?must be comprehended, transformed, even subverted in order to become that which it really is.

The world is an estranged and untrue world so long as man does not destroy its dead objectivity and recognize himself and his own life 'behind' the fixed form of things and laws. When he finally wins this self-consciousness, he is on his way not only to the truth of himself, but also of his world. And with the recognition goes the doing. He will try to put this truth into action, and make the world what it essentially is, namely, the fulfillment of man's self-consciousness.

The quantification of nature, which led to its explication in terms of mathematical structures, separated reality from all inherent ends and, consequently, separated the true from the good, science from ethics.

I don't care how big and fast computers are, they're not as big and fast as the world.

Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage."