Quotes About Reality

The electrons not only know whether or not both holes are open, they know whether or not we are watching them, and they adjust their behaviour accordingly.

Nothing is real unless we look at it, and it ceases to be real as soon as we stop looking.

People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. Einstein

The one sure thing we know about the quantum world is not to trust our common sense and only to believe things we can see directly or detect unambiguously with our instruments. We don't know what goes on inside a box unless we look.

No star fades faster than that of a high school athlete.

As in any war, the truth is the first casualty.

Jak na ka?dej wojnie, prawda jest pierwsz? ofiar?.

Finally, as the first trace of dawn peeked through a window, he accepted the solemn reality that it was time for the killing.

Is she schizophrenic?" Joel asked. "I don't think so. For the most part, she understands reality and does not engage in false beliefs, with the exception of an occasional bout of paranoia. She does not hear voices. It is difficult to determine how she would act in social settings since she has not been released from here. But, no, I do not diagnose your mother as schizophrenic. Severely depressed, yes.

He was not the nostalgic type. You live life today, not tomorrow, certainly not yesterday, he always said.

It just don't seem fair." "Who said life is fair?

Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.

Metaphysical naturalism is not metaphysically neutral regarding teleology. Not content with an empirically based methodology, it mandates the restriction of reality to that which is material. By definition, empirical science is characterized by methodological naturalism, but once it begins propounding metaphysical naturalism, it has overstepped its disciplinary boundaries.

I came to realise that my life, which had seemed so unmistakably real, consisted only of memories

How could I be sure that I was not insane? I did not feel mad, but how was I to know what madness felt like?

The inner is not a brute reality which can be mapped out by psychologists, but a tangle of concepts relating the inner to the outer which lies at the heart of human understanding.

The whole idea of "connections" between language and reality is a false one.

When we think language is on one side and reality is on the other, and then puzzle as to how they link up, we forget that we dwell in language and are merely imagining that we can point at them.

He had an early formulation of what in the Tractatus he saw more clearly — that we can speak of existence only when we assert the truth of some proposition that is not itself existential.

It is beautiful in a picture to wash the disciples' feet; but the sands of the real desert have no lustre in them to compensate for the servile nature of the occupation.

At some point I asked her if she was at peace with the idea of dying. She looked at me like I was stupid and insane. "No," she said. "I want to live." You idiot! would have finished the sentence nicely. It was one of the only times she seemed really disappointed in me. I realized I had learned everything I know about death from movies. There is no peace in dying.

when you are shooting a television show, time is more important than any one performance. If you are doing a bad job at acting, I had learned, they will not bother to tell you. That would be a waste of time, and it might put you into an emotional hole that would also waste time. And by the same token, I had learned that when they say you have done a good job at acting, they are probably lying.

Philadelphia is called "The City of Brotherly Love," which is a lie. Philadelphia is not a nice city.

We do not need to have a picture of what a true world would be like in order to feel that there is something radically wrong with the world that exists.