Quotes About Reality

Though dreams can be deceiving, like faces are to hearts, they serve for sweet relieving, when fantasy and reality lie too far apart.

Reality is that part of the imagination we all agree on

A chinese philosopher once had a dream that he was a butterfly. From that day on, he was never quite certain that he was not a butterfly, dreaming that he was a man.

All general statements are false.

Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

Happiness is just an illusion filled with sadness and confusion

How do you know if something is real? That's easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it give you wings? Does it give you roots? Does it make you look back at a month ago? And say, I am a whole different person right now. If yes, then it's real. The evidence of truth and reality lies in how much something can touch you, can change you, even if it's from very far away. Distance is the only evidence of what can be surpassed.

Lie: A very poor substitute for the truth, but the only one discovered to date.

Truth can not be manipulated in the slightest. It is the perception of truth that is pliable. To dismiss truth as a fairy tale is the endeavor of the fool.

Truth divorced from experience will always remain in the realm of doubt.

What's real in politics is what the voters decide is real.

are not truly real in the consciousness of human experience until they are unraveled and correlated, until their relevant facts actually become meaning through encircuitment in the thought streams of mind.

To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past Therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future....

If you see a whole thing — it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.

What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?

According to Jerome, Mary laid the foundations of virginity for both sexes, and the moral superiority of virginity becomes clear in her person. The reality was the other way around: Virginity was not prized because Mary was always a virgin, rather Mary was made a perpetual virgin because virginity was so highly praised.

See over there, I can be me, he says. I smile but it makes me sad. I haven't found any safe spaces. Damien says, you're safe with me. Until I'm not. He raises an eyebrow. With you I mean, I add. I dream about an internship on the West Coast, but there is nothing for me to do. I am not the president's daughter. I've never met a movie star. I barely watch television.

As the interpretation of reality by the power structure, ideology is always subordinated ultimately to the interests of the structure. Therefore, it has a natural tendency to disengage itself from reality, to create a world of appearances, to become ritual... Increasingly, the virtuosity of the ritual becomes more important than the reality hidden behind it.

One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.

The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.

Non-fiction can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies.

It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief starts. That's where everything starts unravelling...

Look, boys, it ever strike you that the world not real at all? It ever strike you that we have the only mind in the world and you just thinking up everything else? Like me here, having the only mind in the world, and thinking up you people here, thinking up the war and all the houses and the ships and them in the harbour. That ever cross your mind?

Life—how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.