Quotes About Reality

The reality is that what you find out is that your head is the medicine. If your head is not in the right place and you don't think positively, all the medicine technology in the world is not going to work.

Evolution is a great word but it turns its back on difficulties and sums up a rich and complicated reality under a vague formula.

Human nature is not an empty notion, no purely abstract conception, but a reality, a particular manner of being, which includes distinctive habits, inclinations, and attributes.

primitive man has never existed; he is nothing but a poetical creation of monistic imagination

Life often mocks every system; it is richer and fuller than the deepest thinker in all his wisdom can imagine.

Ze glimlachte de lach die ik zo goed kende en die nooit uit m'n geest zou verdwijnen. 'Dat gaat wel,' zei ze. 'Met mij ook,' zei ik. We logen, geloof ik, allebei.

Veertien Dertien had men net zo goed kunnen overslaan, omdat er alleen maar onzin in staat. Ik heb helemaal geen zoon, laat staan dat hij een rondleiding over mij zou presenteren in zaal Concordia. Eigenlijk had men één tot en met twaalf net zo goed kunnen overslaan omdat immers alles onzin is. Ik kan het weten, ik schrijf al die bullshit.

Zo,' zeg ik, 'hier zitten we dan. We mogen niet ontevreden zijn. Vele mensen zitten hier niet. Ze sterven in oorlogen, verhongeren in martelkampen, creperen als vliegen, je weet wel. Nee, we moeten ons lot niet meteen vervloeken, wij.' 'Wat? Waarom zeg je dat?' 'Omdat het waar is. De waarheid heeft haar rechten, Inge.' 'Ik heb niet graag dat je zulke dingen zegt.' 'Toch zeg ik ze.

Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.

All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks… strike, strike through the mask!

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.

Life is a dream, a little more coherent than most.

With the smoke of the dead sailor's cigar wreathing around him, Willie passed to thinking about death and life and luck and God. Philosophers are at home with such thoughts, perhaps, but for other people it is actual torture when these concepts--not the words, the realities--break through the crust of daily occurrences and grip the soul. A half hour of such racking meditation can change the ways of a lifetime.

As long as he deceived himself about the truth, he could blame fortune and have confidence in the future. Now the clouds of madness were closing round his mind.

Are we, then, insane because we have not gone mad?

Young man, until you know that all names are false you know nothing; not even the clothes on your body are what they seem to be.

that in the chain of memory into which we are forged the first links should be the strongest, as if they, just they, were the most real reality.

The truth is lived, not taught.

There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside of them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.

The views of space and time which I wish to lay before you have sprung from the soil of experimental physics, and therein lies their strength. They are radical. Henceforth space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind of union of the two will preserve an independent reality.

You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.

The objective world is, it does not happen. Only to the gaze of my consciousness, crawling along the lifeline of my body, does a section of this world come to life as a fleeting image in space which continuously changes in time.