Quotes About Reality

They are solid, real. I am an object, useful but hollow. The absence of thought fills me up.

When you are mad, mad like this, you don't know it. Reality is what you see. When what you see shifts, departing from anyone else's reality, it's still reality to you.

That's the nice thing about dreams, the way you wake up before you fall.

The anoretic operates under the astounding illusion that she can escape the flesh, and, by association, the realm of emotions.

The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.

Already, with the city behind them, New York didn't feel quite real. As if reality only existed where she existed.

In Developing Superior Work Teams, Dennis Kinlaw writes, "Two realities are shaping organizational life in America today. The first reality is that all organizations are faced with the same challenge: they will either produce consistently superior services and products, or they will soon not be producing much at all. The second reality is that superior teamwork and developing superior work teams have been demonstrated to be the only consistent method for producing superior goods and services.

I supposed this is what is meant by 'growing up'...Find out the difference between what one expected one's life would be like and how things really are" -Lady Constance

La vie n'est pas toujours (ou même jamais) rose, Il est beaucoup plus probable qu'elle soit ombragée par les problèmes, les inquiétudes et les difficultés. C'est tout à fait normal, et personne ne devrait s'en alarmer

Not only that, thoughts, actions, and words have the power to draw to themselves whatever elements are necessary to become concrete reality.

The destruction of nature will lead to the destruction of the human race, but many people seem to be convinced that even if humans should disappear, they will be brought to life again by the hand of their god. This idea, however, is nothing more than fantasy. The human race will not be born again. When the people on the earth have died out, there will be no God or Buddha to rescue them.

When one existentially awakens from within, the relation of birth-and-death is not seen as a sequential change from the former to the latter. Rather, living as it is, is no more than dying, and at the same time there is no living separate from dying. This means that life itself is death and death itself is life. That is, we do not shift sequentially from birth to death, but undergo living-dying in each and every moment.

When life is lived as a living-and-dying in the primordial, nonsubstantial nothingness, one realizes that life is bottomlessly life and death is bottomlessly death. Life does not change into death, and death does not take away life.

To realize life as absolute is to be existentially amancipated from life itself in that very realization, which understands that life is not life. The same applies to death.

People live their lives bound by what they accept as correct and true. That's how they define Reality. But what does it mean to be "correct" or "true"? Merely vague concepts… Their Reality may all be a mirage. Can we consider them to simply be living in their own world, shaped by their beliefs?

In order to survive, we cling to all we know and understand. And label it reality. But knowledge and understanding are ambiguous. That reality could be an illusion. All humans live with the wrong assumptions. Isn't that another way of looking at it? That sharingan how much can you really se?

When something cannot be described, it does not become a fact of shared reality.

Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.

I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.

People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.

Was there little time between the invention of language and the coming of true and false?

Epicureans, from the beginning, rejected idealisms and absolutes that divorced people from context and from nature, and chose to engage reality instead. Our morality is contextual. Rather than hand down absolute dos and don'ts, the first Epicureans elaborated methods by which we can most effectively use our faculties.

El universo no se inclina ante sus deseos, sino que hace lo que hace; su jefe, sus compañeros, los accionistas de la empresa, los clientes y una serie de factores adicionales forman parte del universo, así que ¿por qué iba a esperar que cumplieran con su deseo?

Perhaps the greatest threat to any sense of coherence to reality is posed by the existence of pain and suffering. Christianity provides a series of mental maps that allow for illness and suffering to be seen as coherent, meaningful, and potentially positive in terms of fostering personal growth and development.