Quotes About Reality

The proof of the pudding is in the eating! So what! We are interested in the mechanism that ensures that it really is a pudding we are eating and not a poached baby elephant, though we think we are eating our daily pudding!

Je vivais parce que j'étais née, c'était tout

The human condition's like an audience whose members are always surprised when they're required to become actors.

There's no real alternative to what there is.

Which raised the question of whether she had ever loved, or even if she could love. And yet maybe what she felt was what everybody felt; maybe it was only the poets and romantics who had blown it up beyond recognition. Surely

Well, when I was younger, I lied all the time, because once you understand the power of lying, it's really like magic because you transform reality for people.

Je?eli rzeczywi?cie nie ma ?adnej materii na tym ?wiecie, je?li ziemia, po której chodzimy, jest u?ud?, je?eli tak naprawd? nie ma tego, co widzimy, to có? nam pozostaje? Na czym mo?emy zawiesi? kapelusz? Magia to jedyna rzecz, która nie rz?dzi si? "racjonalnymi" prawami.

W rzeczy samej, na obecnym etapie naszej wiedzy na ten temat, sny mog? by? jedynie oparami naszej wyobra?ni. Jak powiedzia? Bertrand Russell: "nie wierz?, ?e teraz ?ni?, ale nie mog? dowie??, ?e tak nie jest". Mora? z tego taki, ?e w naszych nocnych podró?ach jest wi?cej sensu, ni?by si? nam mog?o wydawa?.

System jest jak ogon prawdy, a prawda jest jak jaszczurka, zostawia swój ogon w twoich r?kach i bierze nogi za pas, wiedz?c, ?e nowy ogon uro?nie jej w mgnieniu oka". Tak to wyrazi? Iwan Sergiejewicz Turgieniew, znakomity pisarz rosyjski. A tak to przedstawi? Chris: Czasami rzeczywisto?? bywa z?udna. A tak Rashomon Kurosawy: "je?li chodzi o rzeczywisto??, to tak naprawd? ona nie istnieje".

The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.

How strange that the world should change because of words, and words change because of the world

Nada es mentira. Basta con un poco de fe y todo es real.

Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing. They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety.

Today is all we have, tomorrow is a mirage that may never become reality.

A arte mais fina não reside na habilidade das construções lógicas, mas em certo contacto que se espera manter sempre com o real.

If war is the test of reality, than all poetry is unreal; but in that case unreality is a virtue.

If war is the test of reality, then all poetry is unreal; but in that case unreality is a virtue.

They all believed that ideas are not "out there" waiting to be discovered, but are tools—like forks and knives and microchips—that people devise to cope with the world in which they find themselves.

in a universe in which events are uncertain and perception is fallible, knowing cannot be a matter of an individual mind 'mirroring' reality. Each mind reflects differently—even the same mind reflects differently at different moments—and in any case reality doesn't stand still long enough to be accurately mirrored … knowledge must therefore be social.

No belief, James thought, is justified by its correspondence with reality, because mirroring reality is not the purpose of having minds.

There aren't any other times or worlds. That's how everything gets messed up, thinking like that.

Waarom moet ieder mens geschokt en geslingerd worden tussen een wereld hier, een wereld van zavel en cement, bloed, zenuwen, telefoonpalen en zonde, mensen die geboren worden en mensen die sterven, en een andere wereld die in onze gedachten spookt zonder te weten of zoiets bestaat, bestaan heeft of ooit zal komen?

La materia es tal vez únicamente una máscara entre todas las máscaras del Gran Rostro.

A lot of people don't believe in curses. A lot of people don't believe in yellow-spotted lizards either, but if one bites you, it doesn't make a difference whether you believe in it or not.