Quotes About Reality

The mind in its great sublime bliss is nondual, being neither self nor others, for it perceives intrinsic reality, which is before one, behind one, and around one in all the ten directions.

In Buddhism we have relative truth and absolute truth.

From the viewpoint of absolute truth, what we feel and experience in our ordinary daily life is all delusion. Of all the various delusions, the sense of discrimination between oneself and others is the worst form, as it creates nothing but unpleasant.

Code of the Grunt: You ain't Superman. You do what you can and then you try to live with the fact that it wasn't enough.

In our existing political conditions, when everybody agrees about something, it is generally untrue.

Popular science tries to define realities, and then finds that the definition can be extended to any number of unrealities.

If truth is relative, to what is it relative?

death does not. Once death exists, I will not. Why should I fear something I will never experience?

When what you hear and what you see don't match, trust your eyes.

Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!

Facts are the enemy of truth.

Maar sy kyk nie meer nuus nie. Sy lees ook nie meer koerant nie. Reg en verkeerd, waarheid en leuen is strome wat deurmekaar geloop het in een rivier, jy kry dit nie meer uitmekaar geskep nie.

Sometimes we get caught up in trying to glorify God by praising what He can do and we lose sight of the practical point of what He actually does do.

Well, life isn't always what one likes.

He knew now that he had never been really happy in his whole life. There had been times when he had thought he was happy but none of them were like this.

He could want it to be a dream forever and that wouldn't change things.

Now the truth of the matter is that there are a lot of things people don't understand. Take the Einstein theory. Take taxes. Take love. Do you understand them? Neither do I. But they exist. They happen.

Before a war, military science seems a real science, like astronomy. After a war it seems more like astrology.

The thing I like most about time is that it's not real. It's all in the head. Sure, it's a useful trick if you wanna meet someone at a specific place in the universe to have tea or coffee. But that's all it is, a trick. There's no such thing as the past, it exists only in the memory. There's no such thing as the future, it exists only in our imagination. If our watches were truly accurate the only thing they would ever say is now.

People tend to think of the soul as a man-shaped thing composed of a vague ghostlike substance. In reality it's more like some God-almighty haunted house, in which the rooms are constantly shifting, moving, and reconfiguring themselves.

All the old stories have it wrong, because it's not the ghost that haunts the house; it's the house that haunts the ghost. I feel lost out here, and everything reminds me that I'm not quite real. In the end it's always home that damns us.

The difference between art about death and actual death is that one's a celebration and the other's a dull fact.

The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.

christ alive we're abit of a mess arent we?