Quotes About Reality

Toutes les supériorités dont se targuent les Occidentaux sont purement imaginaires, à l'exception de la seule supériorité matérielle; celle-là n'est que trop réelle, personne ne la leur conteste, et, au fond, personne ne la leur envie non plus; mais le malheur est qu'ils en abusent.

Let us note in this regard a rather interesting formulation cited by Valli: in all medieval (as opposed to modern) art, 'what is at stake is the incarnation of an idea, not the idealization of a reality';

il est curieux de voir à quelles extravagantes rêveries peut donner lieu une science aussi « positive » que veut l'être l'astronomie moderne.

but to say that there is in every being a mixture of act and potency comes back to the same thing in the end, for act is that in him by which he participates in essence, and potency is that in him by which he participates in substance

The same can be said of the true science of num- bers, for the principial numbers, though they must be referred to as numbers by analogy, are situated relatively to our world at the pole opposite to that at which are situated the numbers of common arithmetic; the latter are the only numbers the moderns know, and on them they turn all their attention, thus taking the shadow for the reality, like the prisoners in Plato's cave.

Lorsque nous trouvons la figure de la croix dans les phénomènes astronomiques ou autres, elle a exactement la même valeur symbolique que celle que nous pouvons tracer nous-mêmes [3] ; cela prouve seulement que le véritable symbolisme, loin d'être inventé artificiellement par l'homme, se trouve dans la nature même, ou, pour mieux dire, que la nature tout entière n'est qu'un symbole des réalités transcendantes.

assurément, des aveugles seraient tout aussi bien fondés à nier l'existence de la lumière et à en tirer prétexte pour se vanter d'être supérieurs aux hommes normaux !

If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream.

We are surrounded by curtains. We only perceive the world behind a curtain of semblance. At the same time, an object needs to be covered in order to be recognized at all.

What he imagines evokes nothing imaginary, it evokes the reality of the world that experience and reason treat in a confused manner.

We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world.

Everyday objects shriek aloud.

Real is the new beautiful

Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and immediately all my biggest fears start running through my mind. I wonder if my fears will one day be my new reality. The fears seem so real. I struggle to shift my focus. Then slowly I realize that my fears are devoid of any love and only love is real.

The dishes that were meant to be hot were never quite as warm as those that were meant to be chilled.

None of us is leading quite the life we were at all prepared for.

We spoke of a friend of ours who had died the night before, at forty-three. "But my God! I'm forty-one," a bearded banker said. "Don't worry," his wife, who is German, answered. "There is no order. It is not a line.

The world is everything that is the case. And in the second place because. Did I throw the most important thing perhaps, by accident, away?

De werkelijkheid bestaat pas, als je je er iets van aantrekt. Je moet de werkelijkheid de kans niet geven, te bestaan.

Nobody has a perfect life. What you see on the screen is the best of the artist.

although we very clearly see the sun, we ought not therefore to determine that it is only of the size which our sense of sight presents; and we may very distinctly imagine the head of a lion joined to the body of a goat, without being therefore shut up to the conclusion that a chimaera exists; for it is not a dictate of reason that what we thus see or imagine is in reality existent; but it plainly tells us that all our ideas or notions contain in them some truth.

But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.

What if we are all capable of lying to ourselves? But the story didn't bother Naomi. Instead it reassured her confirming that the stories we tell ourselves have more meaning than the facts. That doesn't make them lies. Seeded with every myth was the emotional truth.

Are the stories we tell ourselves true or based on what we dream them to be?