Quotes About Reality

the more uncommon often only mislead us so long as the causes of the more ordinary are still unknown;

And let him do his best at deception, he will never bring it about that I am nothing so long as I shall think that I am something.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "Pienso, luego existo" (Descartes)

hay pocas personas que consientan en decir lo que creen, sino también porque muchas lo ignoran, pues el acto del pensamiento, por el cual uno cree una cosa, es diferente de aquel otro por el cual uno conoce que la cree

I am, I exist" is necessarily true every time I utter it or conceive it in my mind.

Daha zor olan?, daha güzel olarak addetmek ölümlülerin ortak kusurudur.

I am, I exist, is necessarily true each time that I pronounce it, or that I mentally concieve it.

Considerando que quaisquer pensamentos que nos ocorrem quando estamos acordados nos podem também ocorrer enquanto dormimos, sem que exista nenhum, nesse caso, que seja correto, decidi fazer de conta que todas as coisas que até então haviam entrado no meu espírito não eram mais corretas do que as ilusões de meus sonhos.

De wortel is metafysica, de stam is fysica en de takken die daaruit voorkomen, zijn alle andere wetenschappen.

There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another.

Et pour nous, en voyant des choses dans lesquelles, selon certains sens, nous ne remarquons point de limites, nous n'assurerons pas pour cela qu'elles soient infinies, mais nous les estimerons seulement indéfinies

La base primera de la filosofía cartesiana es el cogito ergo sum: pienso, luego soy.

Cogito, ergo sum

Le réel quelquefois désaltère l'espérance. C'est pourquoi, contre toute attente, l'espérance survit.

Imagination consists in expelling from reality many incomplete persons, making use of the magical and subversive powers of desire, to obtain their return in the form of a completely satisfying presence. This, then, is the inextinguishable, uncreated reality.

The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.

The goal of religious thinking is exactly the same as that of technological research -- namely, practical action. Whenever man is truly concerned with obtaining concrete results, whenever he is hard pressed by reality, he abandons abstract speculation and reverts to a mode of response that becomes increasingly cautious and conservative as the forces he hopes to subdue, or at least to outrun, draw ever nearer.

The distance between Don Quixote and the petty bourgeois victim of advertising is not so great as romanticism would have us believe.

Like Hölderlin, I think that Christ alone allows us to face this reality without sinking into madness. The apocalypse does not announce the end of the world; it creates hope.

Ogni mediazione proietta un suo miraggio; i miraggi si susseguono come altrettante "verità" che subentrino alle verità anteriori come una vera e propria uccisione del ricordo vivente e si proteggano dalle verità future con una censura implacabile dell'esperienza quotidiana. Marcel Proust chiama "Io" i "mondi" proiettati dalle successive mediazioni. Gli Io sono perfettamente isolati gli uni dagli altri, incapaci di rammentarsi degli Io passati o di presagire gli Io futuri.

Modern man, instead of attempting to raise himself to truth, seeks to drag truth down to his own level.

Cela n'autorise-t-il pas à dire que la suprême habileté du diable, de quelque façon qu'on le conçoive, c'est de faire nier son existence ?

The "end of a world" never is and never can be anything but the end of an illusion.

Il est à peine besoin de dire, après cela, que le Taoïsme est particulièrement mal compris : on s'imagine y trouver toute sorte de choses, excepté la doctrine purement métaphysique qu'il est essentiellement en réalité…