Quotes About Reality

Truths are not relative. What is relative are opinions about truth.

Modern man's misfortune lies not in having to live a mediocre life, but in believing that he could live one that is not mediocre.

The enemies of myth are not the friends of reality but of triviality.

Replacing the concrete sense perception of the object with its abstract intellectual construction makes man gain the world and lose his soul.

Perception of reality, today, dies crushed between modern work and modern entertainment.

Modern man's misfortune lies not in having to live a mediocre life, but in believing that he could live a life that is not mediocre.

Im Universum gibt es Inseln der Ordnung. Aber die angebliche Ordnung des Universums ist ein ideologisches Artefakt.

Der authentische Atheismus hat für die menschliche Intelligenz den gleichen Stellenwert wie die Unendlichkeit für die Vorstellungskraft.

Nichts was irgendeinem Wesen in irgendeiner Situation grundsätzlich möglich ist, ist von grundsätzlicher Bedeutung.

The most convinced reactionary is the repentant revolutionary, that is to say: the man who has known the reality of the problems and has discovered the falseness of the solutions.

Totalitarismus" ist die empirische Realität des "Gemeinwillens" (Volonté générale)

Heinrich Heine: "We want to establish the kingdom of heaven here on earth." But which one, Heine? The socialist paradise they dream of in consumer society, or the consumer society they dream of in socialist paradise.

La técnica induce insidiosamente a convertir sus categorías reguladoras de la acción en categorías constitutivas de la realidad.

Primitive man transforms objects into subjects; modern man transforms subjects into objects. We can suppose that the former deceives himself, but we know with certainty that the latter is wrong.

Las noticias son el substituto de las verdades.

Man has as much of a soul as he believes he has. When that belief dies, man becomes an object.

At times truth may not seem probable.

Le vrai peut quelquefois n'être pas vraisemblable. (At times truth may not seem probable)

Ce n'est jamais la vie qui décline, mais seulement l'idée qu'on parvient à s'en faire.

In order not to find life unbearable, you must accept two things: the ravages of time and the injustices of man.

Trapped by reality, freed by imagination.

I was fifteen and with every ounce of my strength I was leaning into my thoughts to make them slant reality toward the light.

Here I am, motionless in the room, watching what is going on in the street. Nothing. Only reality.

The truth is the thing I invented so I could live.