Quotes About Reality

A voi giovani l'unica cosa che importa sapere è se ho raccontato un aneddoto vero o falso e sottovalutate il fatto che contenga la verità che cerchiamo».

ICTs are modifying the very nature of, and hence what we mean by, reality, by transforming it into an infosphere. Infosphere is a neologism coined in the seventies. It is based on 'biosphere', a term referring to that limited region on our planet that supports life. It is also a concept that is quickly evolving.

We are more often frightened than hurt and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

For as children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.

But centaurs never existed; there could never be So to speak a double nature in a single body Or a double body composed of incongruous parts With a consequent disparity in the faculties. The stupidest person ought to be convinced of that.

the reality of fear: your not afraid of the dark, your afraid of what's in it. your not afraid of heights, your afraid of falling. your not afraid of the people around you, your afraid of what they might think. your not afraid to love, your afraid of love not coming back. your not afraid to try again, your afraid of getting hurt for the same reason.

the fact that we all go on pretending things are fine, hoping everything's a-okay, even though everything is nowhere near okay and we all know it, no matter how many candlelit vigils you hold

Sometimes you can dread something so much that when it actually happens, you can't help but laugh because you realize that you totally blew it out of proportion, and it's not nearly as bad as you thought it would be.

There is no escaping life. It takes what is it's due.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

T]he present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original[.]

Faith in the power of prayer … is … faith in miraculous power; and faith in miracles is … the essence of faith in general. … [F]aith is nothing else than confidence in the reality of the subjective in opposition to the limitations or laws of Nature and reason, … The specific object of faith, therefore, is miracle; … To faith nothing is impossible, and miracle only gives actuality to this omnipotence of faith[.]

Faith does not limit itself by the idea of a world, a universe, a necessity.

T]he world springs out of a want, out of privation, but it is false speculation to make this privation an ontological being.

Existence is one with self-consciousness; existence with self-consciousness is existence simply. If I do not know that I exist, it is all one whether I exist or not.

God is love:' this, … supreme dictum of Christianity, … expresses the certainty which human feeling has of itself, … that the inmost wishes of the heart have objective validity and reality, that there are no limits, no positive obstacles to human feeling, that the whole world, with all its pomp and glory, is nothing weighed against human feeling.

É verdadeiro o que se manifesta aos sentidos.

Öteki dünya inanc? fantezinin hakikatine duyulan inançtan baÅŸka bir ÅŸey deÄŸildir, t?pk? tanr? inanc?n?n, insan?n duygu dünyas?n?n hakikatine ve sonsuzluÄŸuna olan inanç olmas? gibi. Ya da: Tanr? inanc?n?n, sadece insan?n soyut özüne duyulan inanç olmas? gibi, öteki dünya inanc? da sadece soyut bu dünya inanc?d?r.

T]he object to which a subject essentially, necessarily relates, is nothing else than this subject's own … objective nature.

Y sin duda nuestro tiempo... prefiere la imagen a la cosa, la copia al original, la representación a la realidad, la apariencia al ser... lo que es 'sagrado' para él no es sino la ilusión, pero lo que es profano es la verdad. Mejor aún: lo sagrado aumenta a sus ojos a medida que disminuye la verdad y crece la ilusión, hasta el punto de que el colmo de la ilusión es también para él el colmo de lo sagrado

But for the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, representation to reality, appearance to essence [...] truth is considered profane, and only illusion is sacred. Sacredness is in fact held to be enhanced in proportion as truth decreases and illusion increases, so that the highest degree of illusion comes to 'be the highest degree of sacredness.

Obedece aos sentidos! Onde começam os sentidos cessam a religião e a filosofia, mas em compensação a verdade simples e nua te é dada.