Quotes About Reality

Time is like opinions. If that makes sense to you, then it's true. Therefore, it is real based on your location.

Time, life and death are mysterious, and they will remain to be so until the day we will come to possess the key of all illusions.

To believe in time is to believe in change and vice versa. Those who claim that time does not exist have no idea what they are talking about, they are the disbelievers of change.

To tell a lie is to recognize that all truths are half-truths. There can be no pure truth or lie, they are identical twins who cannot be separated.

To the atheist, the world is filled with madness and crazy people who believe in superstitions that cannot even prove to be true.

We are becoming more spiritual, in our minds, but in reality, it is the opposite of spiritually that is practised by the mystics.

We believe whenever we don't know the truth.

We can't expect or imagine that all the politicians are bad.

We claim to love the poor and yet no one wishes to become poor in life. Therefore, it is a false statement made by flatterers.

You can only understand the uselessness of money if you find yourself in a desert with a handful of a bag of money. You will starve to death.

You claim to be made in the image of God. But in reality, we are all beggars before God.

Truth and belief not to always help you smile

Kingdom citizenship is a spiritual reality, but it is also a mentality. As believers, we already have the Spirit of God, but we need to learn the mind and the heart of God.

Marriage is the grave of love.

In the Real Life of Alejandro Mayta, the reader tries to reconstruct the past through participants and witnesses to that past, but what results is a blurred, ambiguous fiction within another fiction that recounts past events in accord with individual perspectives and interests. In this case, reality becomes fiction not only because the novelist fictionalized it but because the acts of remembering are so deformed or willfully mendacious that it is itself a fiction.

Such vastness makes for illusion, a kind of illusion that comprehends reality, and where it exists there is always wonder and exhilaration.

To say "beyond the mountain," and to mean it, to mean, simply, beyond everything for which the mountain stands, of which it signifies the being. Somewhere, if only she could see it, there was neither nothing nor anything. And there, just there, that was the last reality.

I have argued that the God of the Bible, and especially of the Gospels, can be understood only as God-in-public, and that methods of criticism designed to keep this rumor quiet need to be challenged by appropriate historical, theological, and political critique and replaced by methods that do justice to the reality of the texts and hence do justice - in the much fuller sense - in the public world that the Gospels demand to address.

Things aren't always what they seem, are they?

La verdad es como una manta que nos deja los pies fríos. Ya puede uno tirar de ella hacia sí en todos los sentidos, que nunca nos cubrirá del todo. Sacudidla, tirad de ella, mas nunca será suficiente. Desde el día en que se viene al mundo, llorando, a aquel a quien se le entrega, agonizante, no puede hacer más que cubrirse con ella la cabeza y gemir, llorar o aullar.

Love is the deepest mode of knowing, because it is love that, while completely engaging with reality other than itself, affirms and celebrates that other-than-self reality. This is the mode of knowing that is necessary if we are to live in the new public world, the world launched at Easter, the world in which Jesus is Lord and Caesar isn't.

Christians do not avail ourselves of Plato's safety-hatch and say that the real world is not a thing of space, time, and matter, but another world into which we can escape. We say that the present world is the real one, and that it's in bad shape, but expecting to be repaired.

Christian holiness consists not of trying as hard as we can to be good but of learning to live in the new world created by Easter, the new world we publicly entered in our baptism. There are many parts of the world we can't do anything about except pray. But there is one part of the world, one part of physical reality, that we can do something about, and that is the creature each of us call "myself.

In fact, like most things in life that really matter—love, beauty, justice—you can't prove things in history the way you can prove Pythagoras's theorem. But there are lots of things you can be certain of nonetheless.