Quotes About Reality

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El dominio absoluto de toda la realidad

Tengo un cansancio infinito y, al tiempo, ninguno. Podría dormir diez días seguidos y no dormir en lo que me queda de vida. Podría quedarme dormido en esta mesa y permanecer insomne días enteros, tumbado en mi litera. Podría soñar despierto e imaginar la realidad como un sueño.

To recognize that there can exist a color blindness to blue is as much as to admit that blue exists, which these days seems to me to be more than doubtful.

Me despierto poco antes de que amanezca. Es la mejor hora del día. Las cosas se ven de color de rosa y todos tenemos derecho a esperar que nuestros sueños se convertirán por fin en realidad.

Veo las cosas tal como son. Hace muchos años que renuncié a la fantasía. No he olvidado nunca que un exceso de imaginación puede conducir a los hombres a la locura.

Se queda un momento en silencio, casi puedo oír el zumbido de lo que está pensando y me explica por fin que no sólo hay una realidad, sino muchas distintas, que cada hombre tiene la suya, y que no siempre coincide su realidad con la del prójimo.

A theory must be tempered with reality.

And yet fear builds its phantoms which are more fearsome than reality itself, and reality, when calmly analysed and its consequences willingly accepted, loses much of its terror.

Life is too complicated and, as far as we can understand it in our present state of knowledge, too illogical, for it to be confined within the four corners of a fixed doctrine. The

reality, when calmly analysed and its consequences willingly accepted, loses much of its terror.

The problem in counseling is to bring Christian counselees to full recognition of the glorious reality of the eternal inheritance. The present, as a result, will be strongly conditioned by the future. This great hope and assurance provides a foundational motivation to make the present approximate the reality of the future.

could almost hear piped-in

We are not dead!" He could hear the smile, even in her answering yell. "Certainly we are. It is only that our bodies have not yet learned the truth.

Eventually you ascend the stairs to the street. You think of Plato's pilgrims climbing out of the cave, from the shadow world of appearances toward things as they really are, and you wonder if it is possible to change in this life. Being with a philosopher makes you think.

It is possible to refine awareness itself so much that the emptiness of things, and the role mental construction plays, becomes a directly apprehended reality.

The very fact that you can even wonder if you're going crazy means you very likely aren't crazy. Real nuts don't question their own nuttiness. They think they're the only normal ones. That's why they're nuts.

Our everyday reality is a grand illusion which we are creating. By exploring and changing our inner world, we begin to transform our outer world. If we are willing to embark on an inner journey, we can discover all of the beliefs, expectations, and hidden agendas through which we create our own lives, and collectively, we can begin to shape the future in ways that honor the sacredness of all life.

I like reality. It tastes like bread.

Don't make the mistake of believing it's enough to reproduce the realities of life.... The object of art is to give life a shape, and to do it by every conceivable artifice.

Have you noticed that life, real honest-to-goodness life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in the newspapers?

Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it

Il y a l'amour... Et puis il y a la vie, son ennemie.

Rien n'est vrai que ce qu'on ne dit pas...