Quotes About Reality

Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage".

I beg your pardon, I never promised you a rose garden. Along with sunshine, there's got to be a little rain sometime.

& all your friends telling you stories that you often misinterpret and taint all the images of yo Mr Perfect

...that is our calling: to show that there is a reality in personal relationship, and not just words about it.

The real poetry and beauty in life comes from an intense relationship with reality in all its aspects. Realism is in fact the ideal we must aspire to, the highest point of human rationality.

I don't believe that hard work equals success. It can, and maybe it should, but I know that it doesn't. There's a very slight relationship between the two.

Then there is the further question of what is the relationship of thinking to reality. As careful attention shows, thought itself is in an actual process of movement.

When we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself; it is always dependent upon the reality of the immediate relationship.

When we visualize something, we establish a relationship to the thing itself, not to some mere subjective representation of it inside us.

My husband. He keeps me grounded. If I were in the world on my own, it would all be much more seductive. But I'm in a relationship that has nothing to do with the film world.

All essential knowledge relates to existence, or only such knowledge as has an essential relationship to existence is essential knowledge.

Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities.

Our relationship to reality and to our experience is all based upon the ideas in our mind that we're always trying to live up to.

I am as I am. The world is as it is. Whether I am content with that has very little to do with it.

This century hasn't got the lock on insanity.

Henri Bergson thought the principal function of the brain was to filter out most of reality so that we could focus on the tasks of earthly life," he said. "When the filter is weakened by a powerful drug, what we see is not delusion but the truth.

It's all ka-ka, saying mind is really brain. Sure, my hand is in my pocket. Is my pocket my hand? Every wino on M Street knows a thought is a thought and not some cells or chazerei going on in the brain. They know that jealousy is not some kind of game from Atari.

It is not the ought -ness of the problem that we have to consider, but the is -ness!

there's no point in looking for hundred-dollar bills in the street. Why? Because, were there any hundred-dollar bills, someone would already have picked them up.

One of the things that price consultants have learned is that what consumers say and what they do are not the same thing.

Isn't human mind a funny thing? A bullet is a bullet, dead is dead. The reduction in probability of your demise is precisely the same in both cases. Why isn't your price the same?

One of Stevens's epigrams ran, 'Black is white with a bright ring around it.' The Orwellian tone of that statement is justified. Stevens knew only too well that you can get people to believe almost anything about their own perceptions with a little sleight of hand. Subjectively, there are no absolutes, only contrasts.

To become aware, no matter how disturbing that reality is, is the first step to the resistance that we must be prepared to make in response.

The world as it is is the world as God sees it, not as we see it. Our vision is distorted, not so much by the limits of finitude as by sin and ignorance. But the more we raise ourselves in the scale of being, the more will our ideas about God and the world correspond to reality.