Quotes About Reality

Lord, Lord, how this world is given to lying!

If we shadows have offended,Think but this, and all is mended,That you have but slumber'd hereWhile these visions did appear.

And simple truth miscall'd simplicity,And captive good attending captain ill.

The earth hath bubbles, as the water has,And these are of them.

The naked truth of it is, I have no shirt.

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Things are neither good nor bad but thinking makes it so.

The possibilities that are suggested in quantum physics tell us that everything that we're looking at may not be in fact there, so the underlying nature of being is weird.

Take it easy, nothing matters in the end, what goes up must come down. If I'd known that at 20, I wouldn't have done anything!

There are no facts anymore, kiddo. only good or bad fiction.

Words alone cannot fully convey the realities of the soul or the greatness of the human spirit.

A love that is true to living persons and existing realities is steadfast and fine. But I saw then, for the first time, that a love which was fastened upon the dead and true to nothing but a past that was finished, is not a good nor true emotion. If it went on too long, it could become an incubus, throttling a man from the real life of the present, which is the life that we were fashioned to meet and experience.

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched, for they are full of the truthless ideals which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real they are bruised and wounded.

We live in a scientific age, yet we assume that knowledge of science is the prerogative of only a small number of human beings, isolated and priestlike in their laboratories. This is not true. The materials of science are the materials of life itself. Science is part of the reality of living; it is the what, the how, and the why of everything in our experience. It is impossible to understand man without understanding his environment and the forces that have molded him physically and mentally.

There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.

There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.

Mo?e wariaci to tacy ludzie, którzy wszystko widz? tak, jak jest, tylko uda?o im si? znale?? sposób ?eby z tym ?y?.

Truths that wake,To perish never.

COMPARE) - Our birth is but a dream and a forgetting (Wordsworth) - ...so schläft er sehr rasch wieder ein, und schon nach vierundzwanzig Stunden ist es, als sei man niet weg gewesen und als sei die Reise der Traum einer Nacht. (Thomas Mann) - Thetis baptized her mortal son in Styx; A mortal mother would on Lethe fix. (Byron)

In our tribal stories, we have heard of a Woman's Council, which was headed by a very powerful woman, perhaps the Ghigau . This oral history is frequently discredited by Western historians as "merely myth." I have always found their repudiation fascinating. An entire body of knowledge can be dismissed because it was not written, while material written by obviously biased men is readily accepted as reality.

I've spent several years in Hollywood, and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience.

HAD no idea what was in store for me. To begin with, everything was too perfect

None of them are willing to see themselves or others simply as what they are. All is colored with myth, with the ideal. Everyone is a figure in a cosmic drama—an imaginary drama.