Quotes About Reality

A wise man cares not for what he cannot have.

Forgiveness is discovering that what you thought happened, didn't.

One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.

I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread.

Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.

This possibility to change reality, which exists in everyone, represents the real freedom of every human individual. He has an enormous possibility to change his world view.

The best slave is the one who thinks he is free.

Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.

Are you still thinking, looking, living, as from an imaginary phenomenal centre? As long as you do that you can never recognise your freedom.

I'm an American who loves an America which doesn't exist, which is a land of freedom and free ideas.

"It can't happen here" is number one on the list of famous last words.

Reality has a quality of freedom about it that is hard to explain.

Nothing you believe is true. To know this is freedom.

When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of today.

Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections.

There is no definition of terrorism and there is still the reality that one person's terrorist is another person's freedom fighter.

In the context of our present pervasive madness that we call normality, sanity, freedom, all our frames of reference are ambiguous and equivocal.

I try to give the media as many confusing images as I can to retain my freedom. What's real is for my children and the people I live with.

For you who no longer possess it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.

Most Americans pay lip service to the idea of freedom, but can't handle real freedom.

Humans are born free then put into cages, then convinced freedom is what being in a cage is, and what freedom is, is being in a cage.

We become obsessed with 'truth' when discussing statements, just as we become obsessed with 'freedom' when discussing conduct...Like freedom, truth is a bare minimum or an illusory ideal.

Freedom!- is the fatuous jingle of our civilization, but only those deprived of it have the barest inkling re: what the stuff actually is.

The person must give himself an external sphere of freedom in order to have being as Idea.