Quotes About Reality

What was a face on television but a code, and what was the difference between these faces but a realignment of line and color to shift among signals? If he grasped deeply this language of symbols, grasped it beneath the surface, he could course through the currents of authority as they coursed through him like heat or the tremble of cold.

Él no se mató, no. Murió como..., como todo el mundo un día muere.

Mas o que seria loucura, recusar a realidade ou pactuar com ela?

To love and to live well is wished of many, but incident to few.

Every man's life is, consciously or unconsciously, a quest for the infinite and the eternal reality.

It is in an especial degree the tendency of the present age to deal only with tangible truths. Reason is the highpriest of the Nineteenth Century. It knows only the phenomena which the senses report to it. Its philosophy scouts the aphorism of Pascal, " The heart has reasons of its own that the reason knows not of." It tries every teaching by scientific tests; weighs moral truths in the apothecary's scales; sends divine and unseen realities to the chemists to be analyzed and tested.

But neither painting, literature, music, nor architecture is so impressive as life.

You are a human being. You have rights inherent in that reality. You have dignity and worth that exists prior to law.

The mirror that Strindberg held up to Nature was a cracked one. It was cracked in a double sense -- it was crazy. It gave back broken images of a world which it made look like the chaos of a lunatic dream.

We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality, we create it to be able to stay.

something can only become an illusion after disillusionment. before that, it is something real. what caused the disillusionment? no one told me the print on the wall was just ink and paper and had no life of its own. at some point the cat stopped blinking, and i stopped thinking it could.

A man who has been dead for a week in a hot trailer looks more like a man than you would first expect.

How can there be a true History, when we see no man living is able to write truly the History of the last week?', as Sir Will demands in Thomas Shadwell's play The Squire of Alsatia (1688)

Christianity isn't true because it works; it works because it's true.

When you only believe in things you can see with your eyes and touch with your hands, it is idolatry.

I'm never exactly a slave to facts at the best of times. But does it matter? Who owns memories after all?

We have to deal with the world as it is, not as we wish it were.

On a lazy Saturday morning when you're lying in bed, drifting in and out of sleep, there is a space where fantasy and reality become one. Are you awake, or are you dreaming? You see people and things; some are familiar; some are strange. You talk, you feel, but you move without walking; you fly without wings. Your mind and your body exist, but on separate planes. Time stands still. For me, this is the feeling I have when ideas come.

For all the accomplishments of molecular biology, we still can't tell a live cat from a dead cat.

People are always complaining that life's not fair, but that simply isn't true. Life is extraordinarily fair. It's just not centered on you.

Bad news is still bad news - even if you're expecting it.

Maybe hallucinations are just another reality that we don't see most of the time

Things aren't always as they seem. But then, sometimes they're exactly as they seem.

Living consciousness somehow is the influence that turn the possibility of something into something real..The most essential ingredient in creating our universe is the consciousness that observe it.