Quotes About Reality

The phenomenal layer is, literally, pre-logical and will always remain so.

By returning to phenomena, we find, as a fundamental layer, a whole already pregnant with an irreducible sense.

Our assurance of being in the truth is one with our assurance of being in the world.

I said anything I wanted because I don't believe in children I don't believe in childhood. I don't believe that there's a demarcation. 'Oh you mustn't tell them that. You mustn't tell them that.' You tell them anything you want. Just tell them if it's true. If it's true you tell them.

there is no such thing as fantasy unrelated to reality

Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.

la fantasía, ¿sabes?, es la única cualidad humana que no está sujeta a las miserias de la realidad.

No existo porque pienso ni pienso porque existo. Pensar es cierto, existir es un mito. Yo no existo, vivir –lo que se dice vivir– sólo los que no piensan. Los que se ponen a pensar no viven." --Dos Crímenes Barrocos, Max Aub, Crímenes Ejemplares--

Stop believing what you want to believe. It's unbecoming

Most women are not as young as they are painted.

You will think me lamentably crude: my experience of life has been drawn from life itself.

All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.

Ich muß gestehen, daß ich zuerst den Eindruck hatte, unter Verrückte gefallen zu sein.

I think that most people would rather face the light of a real enemy than the darkness of their imagined fears.

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.

We can teach ourselves to see things the way they ARE. Only with vision can we begin to see things the way they CAN BE.

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you.

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between the two, the leader must become a servant and a debtor. That sums up the progress of an artful leader.

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between the two, the leader must become a servant and a debtor. That sums up the progress of an artful leader. Concepts

Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.

It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.

We live in an age of reproduction. Most of what makes up our personal picture of the world we have never seen with our own eyes--or rather, we've seen it with our own eyes, but not on the spot: our knowledge comes to us from a distance, we are televiewers, telehearers, teleknowers.

Die beste und sicherste Tarnung ist immer noch die blanke und nackte Wahrheit. Komischerweise die glaubt niemand.