Quotes About Reality

Qué es lo que te atrae de ese mundo? Que es real, le contesté, que está vivo y agregué con cierta tristeza que no pude disimular, y supongo que lo vivo duele.

It's strange that the only certainty life gives us is one we fear so much.

Cuando una se acostumbra al horror, éste deja de verse, por tanto de existir. El horror mismo lleva a perder las proporciones del horror.

If you get run over as you cross the street perhaps you won't even realize it.

Her task may be to deconstruct a moral order which is based on a heterosexual construction of reality, which organises not only categories of approved social and divine interactions but of economic ones too. The

Serious doubting as a theological method re-contextualises Liberation Theology by questioning those very hermeneutical principles which led liberationists to be indifferent to the reality of lemon vendors in the first place. Amongst

The map of what we call reality is an ever-shifting mosaic of ideas.

Unless you are intellectually numb, you can't escape the allure of the quantum, the tantalizing possibility that we are immersed in mystery, forever bound within the shores of the Island of Knowledge. Unless you are intellectually numb, you can't escape the awe-inspiring feeling that the essence of reality is unknowable.

There were no witnesses to what was about to happen. 'Happen' didn't yet exist. Reality was timeless. Space also didn't exist. The distance between two points was immeasurable. The points themselves could be anywhere, hovering and bouncing. Infinity tangled into itself. There was no here and now. Only Being.

Perfection is too hard a burden to impose on nature.

If large portions of the world remain unseen or inaccessible to us, we must consider the meaning of the word "reality" with great care.

What is the stuff that makes everything that is?" they asked. That this remains the defining question of modern particle physics serves to show that the value of a great question is that it keeps generating answers that, in turn, keep changing as our methods of inquiry change.

We explain the world the way we think about it. There's no way out of our minds.

This doesn't mean anything about the real world and the way justice is dispensed. Or the way it should be dispensed. It won't always be this way. It may never be this way again. Ahead

Sometimes things are less than they seem.

There is no other reality than nature.

Yo soñé que soñaba. Y soñé que despertaba del segundo sueño, del sueño soñado y decía: "Ah, fue un sueño", y creía estar despierto. Quizá la vida sea eso, un sueño metido dentro de otro. Quizá la vida sea el tercer sueño concéntrico del que uno despierta cuando se muere.

Art is a deception that creates real emotions — a lie that creates a truth. And when you give yourself over to that deception, it becomes magic.

To expect an impossibility is madness.

Don't let outward appearances mislead you into thinking that someone with more prestige, power or some other distinction must on that account be happy.

The present is the only thing of which a man can be deprived, if it is true that this is the only thing which he has, and that a man cannot lose something he does not already possess.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

Myth is stories about the way things never were, but always are.

The world you see is seen by you alone. What entices you and what repels you, what strengthens you and what weakens you, is part of a pattern that no one else shares. Therefore, as Mr. Wilde said, no two people can perceive the same "truth," because each person's perspective is different.