Quotes About Reality

why distort a past that can no longer stand up for itself?

Tarih, var olmuÅŸ olan bir ÅŸeyden söz eder; oysa bir var olan baÅŸka bir var olan?n varoluÅŸunu hakl? ç?karamaz.

The doctrine I am presenting before you is precisely the opposite of this, since it declares that there is no reality except in action. It goes further, indeed, and adds, "Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realises himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is.

In so far as I make a world exist as a complex of instruments which I use for the ends of my human reality, I cause myself to be determined in my being by a being who makes the world exist as a complex of instruments for the ends of his reality.

Nothing looked real; I felt surrounded by cardboard scenery which could suddenly be removed. The world was waiting, holding its breath, making itself small -

in Marommes." And in reality you have started at the end. It was there, invisible and present, it is the one which gives to words the pomp and value of a beginning. "I

Esto es lo que engaña a la gente; el hombre es siempre un narrador de historias; vive rodeado de sus historias y de las ajenas, ve a través de ellas todo lo que le sucede, y trata de vivir su vida como si la contara. Pero hay que escoger: o vivir o contar.

Ama biz, yar?n?n henüz orada olmad???n? hep unutuyoruz.

the world of explanations and reasons is not that of existence.

Ä°nsanlar hikâyecilikten kurtulamaz, kendi hikâyeleri ve baÅŸkalar?n?n hikâyeleri aras?nda yaÅŸar. Ba??na gelen her ÅŸeyi hikâyeler içinden görür. Hayat?n?, sanki anlat?yormuÅŸ gibi yaÅŸamaya çal???r.

Now I knew: things are entirely what they appear to be—and behind them . . . there is nothing.

Her ÅŸey dopdolu, varoluÅŸ her yerde yoÄŸun, a??r ve tatl?. Ama bütün bu tatl?l???n ard?nda, ele geçmez, yak?n ama yine de uzak, genç, ac?mas?z ve durgun ÅŸu... Evet, ÅŸu eÄŸilip bükülmezlik var.

Widzi pan, ?e ich pan nie kocha, tych dwojga. Mo?e nie potrafi?by ich pan nawet rozpozna? na ulicy. Stanowi? dla pana tylko symbole. Nie nad nimi si? pan teraz rozczula: rozczula si? pan nad M?odo?ci? Cz?owieka, nad Mi?o?ci? M??czyzny i Kobiety, mad G?osem ludzkim. -I co z tego, czy to nie istnieje? -Oczywi?cie,?e nie, to nie istnieje. Ani M?odo??, ani Wiek dojrza?y, ani Staro??, ani ?mier?...

É isso o tempo, o tempo que inteiramente nu, que acede lentamente à existência, se faz esperar, e que, quando chega, nos enfastia, porque percebemos então que já estava ali havia muito. »

When it is dark, the objects and I will come out of limbo

A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing. To be sure, this may seem a harsh thought to someone whose life hasn't been a success. But, on the other hand, it prompts people to understand that reality alone is what counts, that dreams, expectations, and hopes warrant no more than to define a man as a disappointed dream, as miscarried hopes, as vain expectations. In other words, to define him negatively and not positively.

At one point, Roquentin realizes that the seat he is on is a seat only by name: "it could just as well be a dead donkey. . . . Things are divorced from their names. They are there, grotesque, headstrong, gigantic, and it seems ridiculous to call them seats or say anything at all about them: I am in the midst of things, nameless things.

Mein augenblickliches Leben ist nicht besonders glanzvoll, [...]

This is what I have to avoid, I must not put in strangeness where there is none.

Suffering just means you're having a bad dream. Happiness means you're having a good dream. Enlightenment means getting out of the dream altogether.

I don't have something you don't; you believe something I don't.

The bottom line remains the same: you're either awake or you're not.One day, there it is. Nothing. No more enemies, no more battles.

Enlightenment isn't when you go there; it's when there comes here.

The you that you think of as you (and that thinks of you as you, and so on) is not you, it's just the character that the underlying truth of you is dreaming into existence. Enlightenment isn't in the character, it's in the underlying truth.