Quotes About Reality

What exists is real; therefore it is tragic, since whatever lives must die. Only fantasy, the vapors rising from sheer nonsense, can now excite my laughter.

You are young; you have hopes. One by one they will go, and nothing will be left but the bare fact of life.

Every society produces its own cultural conceits, a set of lies and delusions about itself that thrive in the face of all contrary evidence.

Face reality as it is, not as it was, or as you wish it to be.

what reality is formed into.

I think I have actually discovered the computer-like control and operating system for physical reality and the real world as we know it.

I no longer think time is passing. I now think reality is continuing.

In the end I didn't get a top car any more. I had no toughness left. That was the reality.

The world is made of more than particles. It's made of things you can't hold in your hand, like fear, love, loss, hope, truth.

All we need to know is that beauty is truth, said Keats, and I'm sorry to sound callous, but what he actually needed to know was the cure for his general malaise and for the illness that eventually killed him, aged twenty-five. *

I was just peeling some potatoes for dinner and they all looked like crisp white potatoes until I cut them in half. Every single one had a rotten, gray core. [. . .] I feel like the whole world is black, rotting, and evil. Even when it looks crisp on the outside, that's a lie, because you can't trust anything - on the inside it's nothing like mold. [. . .] So, see, nothing good is ever going to happen, and anyone who says it is, is lying to you.

Who knows if all our brains are inventing the same thing? I mean, how do we know that the thing YOUR eyes see and call "red" is the same thing that I call "red"?

The painter's portrait and the physicist's explanation are both rooted in reality, but they have been changed by the painter or the physicist into something more subtly imagined than the photographic appearance of things.

The richness of human life is that we have many lives; we live the events that do not happen (and some that cannot) as vividly as those that do.

All those formal systems, in mathematics and physics and the philosophy of science, which claim to give foundations for certain truth are surely mistaken. I am tempted to say that we do not look for truth, but for knowledge. But I dislike this form of words, for two reasons. First of all, we do look for truth, however we define it, it is what we find that is knowledge. And second, what we fail to find is not truth, but certainty; the nature of truth is exactly the knowledge that we do find.

The cold, cruel reality is that with one current justice now approaching ninety, and four others over seventy, the day will inevitably arrive when a sitting justice lies in an intensive care unit, both unable to resign and unable to resume his or her duties.

the Mishnah is a document of imagination and fantasy, describing out of the shards and remnants of reality how things are, meaning how they are supposed to be

El logro de la Unidad se produce cuando el observador incorpora en un acto simultáneo de observación, todos los contenidos de la experiencia. En esta hazaña el observador se confunde con sus contenidos y desaparece la división entre ambos, lográndose así el acceso a la Realidad del Yo Puro.

Conocemos únicamente el producto final de nuestro procesamiento cerebral pero lo confundimos con la Realidad en sí.

Ya veremos más adelante que la propia organización del Cerebro Humano es un modelo de la Lattice. Pero este modelo todavía no llega a ser idéntico al territorio que quiere representar. Únicamente cuando nos convertimos en la Lattice misma, estaremos en posibilidad de percibir la Realidad tal como existe y tal como es en sí. Esta

La Realidad es Una pero como bien lo dice Ken Wilber la dividimos con fronteras de separación que dependen del nivel de Conciencia en el cual funcionamos y no de la Realidad en sí.

Si bien es cierto que el conocimiento no son los datos que se manejan sino más bien la certeza vivencial, también es verdad que esta última puede no ser compartida. La razón de ello no radica en el hecho de que la certeza sea relativista, sino solamente en la existencia de diferentes certezas. Todos llegamos al mismo conocimiento interno porque éste no es relativo en cuanto a su verdad, pero existen diferentes gradientes y ritmos para alcanzarlo

The reality is not always our destiny.

Time is, to put it in its most impressive and some might say poncy-sounding form, my domain. I can see things that once happened, even if they haven't happened any more. Well, if I concentrate. The new reality-the real reality- keeps asserting itself, even with me. But the other time line leaves echoes, ripples, if you look hard enough.