Quotes About Reality

I love life, but not everything in it. I love people, but not all of them. I love myself, but not everything about me.

Power begins with having a crystal-clear view of reality and what each and every person in your life is driven by.

Everything is true,' he said. 'Everything anybody has ever thought.

God formed an alliance based on the world as it is, full of flaws, whereas prayer calls God to account for the world as it should be.

What is a face really? It's own photo? It's makeup? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.

Pour moi, peindre un tableau c'est engager une action dramatique au cours de laquelle la réalité se trouve déchirée. Ce drame l'emporte sur toute autre considération. L'acte plastique n'est que secondaire, en ce qui me concerne. Ce qui compte, c'est le drame de l'acte lui-même, le moment où l'univers s'échappe pour rencontrer sa propre destruction

Perhaps the greatest danger of our global community is that the person in LA thinks he knows Cambodia because he's seen The Killing Fields on-screen, and the newcomer from Cambodia thinks he knows LA because he's seen City of Angels on video.

So many things which once had distressed or revolted him — the speeches and pronouncements of the learned, their assertions and their prohibitions, their refusal to allow the universe to move — all seemed to him now merely ridiculous, non-existent, compared with the majestic reality, the flood of energy, which now revealed itself to him: omnipresent, unalterable in its truth, relentless in its development, untouchable in its serenity, maternal and unfailing in its protectiveness.

The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

In the end, only the truth will survive.

All because he had tried to rescue a beautiful, vacuous girl from a dragon. In folklore, such a hero always received a most intriguing reward. In reality, the hero was as likely as not to find himself in need of rescue…

La Vita o si vive o si scrive

I libri pesano tanto: eppure, chi se ne ciba e se li mette in corpo, vive tra le nuvole.

Ciascuno vuole imporre agli altri quel mondo che ha dentro, come se fosse fuori, e che tutti debbano vederlo a suo modo, e che gli altri non possano esservi se non come li vede lui.

Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?

How could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?

The society we have described can never grow into a reality or see the light of day, and there will be no end to the troubles of states, or indeed, my dear Glaucon, of humanity itself, till philosophers become rulers in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

Time is the moving image of reality

Is there a perfect world?

But Above all things truth beareth away the victory

Appearance tyrannizes over truth.

And isn't it a bad thing to be deceived about the truth, and a good thing to know what the truth is? For I assume that by knowing the truth you mean knowing things as they really are.

I prefer nothing, unless it is true.