Quotes About Reality

A] faith which does not believe what it fancies it believes[.]

God … is nothing else than the nature of understanding made objective.

the present age... 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 seen as the highest degree of sacredness.

Man … projects his being into objectivity. … [T]hen … makes himself an object to this projected image of himself[.]

Providence is a privilege of man. It expresses the value of man, in distinction from other natural beings … ; it exempts him from the connection of the universe. Providence is the conviction of man of the infinite value of his existence, - a conviction in which he renounces faith in the reality of external things; it is the idealism of religion.

T]hese days illusion only is scared, truth profane. … [S]acredness is held to be enhanced in proportion as truth decreases and illusion increases, so that the highest degree of illusion comes to highest degree of sacredness. Religion has disappeared, … for it has been substituted … the appearance of religion[.]

Soñar despierto con un mundo "justo" que lo trataría de acuerdo con su "valor real" es el refugio de todos aquellos plagados de falta de autoconocimiento.

The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.

Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that's a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: 'This fellow isn't insane. We are only doing philosophy.

We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.

Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.

The thing about death is that we're all terrified of it happening, and we're devastated when it does, and we go out of our way to pretend that neither of these things is true.

Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions.

You can plan for something your whole life, and still get taken by surprise

In this new place we've found, sometimes there aren't words, because the truth can be even more difficult than the lies.

when you're a point, all you see is the point. When you're a line, all you see is the line and the point. When you're in three dimensions, you see three dimensions and lines and points. Just because we can't see a fourth dimensions doesn't mean it doesn't exist. It just me ands we haven't reached it yet.

We don't know what reality is," Rayanne says. "We just pretend we do, because it makes us feel like we're in control.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced. —JAMES BALDWIN

Sometimes we don't know we're dreaming; we can't even fathom that we're asleep.

Is it better not knowing the ugly truth, and pretending it doesn't exist? Or is it better to confront it, even though the knowledge may be a weight you carry around forever?

Reality is frigid; I have to dip one toe at a time and grow accustomed to the shock before wading in further.

He wished he knew what to say to make her feel better, but the truth was, he didn't feel all that great himself and he didn't know if there were even any words in the English language to take away this kind of stunning shock, this understanding that the world isn't the place you thought it was.