Quotes About Reality

I think it is better to know the worst, rather than trying to imagine it.

I'm an engineer for the same reason anyone is an engineer: a certain love for the intricate lives of things, a belief in a functional definition of reality. I do believe that the operational definition of a thing—how it works—is its most eloquent self-expression.

Sometimes we look at outcomes in this life, seeking the reassurance of a happy ending, and it's just not there. What then? As Betty put it, His ways are inscrutable. So we have to rest, not in the peace of a pretty story, but in the reality of faith in a Person we cannot see.

Television has brought murder back into the home-- where it belongs.

A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality.

T.V. has brought murder back into the home where it belongs.

How can one expect a state of abundance to be everlasting?

Two important characteristics of maps should be noticed. A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness

If we consider that all we deal with represents constantly changing sub-microscopic, interrelated processes which are not, and cannot be identical with themselves, the old dictum that everything is identical with itself becomes in [todays u...

Whatever you say it is, it isn't.

Say wharever you choose about the object, and wharever you might say it is not. Or, in other words: wharever you might say the object is, well it is not.

Indeed neither life nor science bothers about "essences"-they leave "essences" to metaphysics, which is neither life nor science.

41. "The idols of the tribe are inherent in human nature and the very tribe or race of man; for man's sense is falsely asserted to be the standard of things; on the contrary, all the perceptions both of the senses and the mind bear reference to man and not to the Universe, and the human mind resembles these uneven mirrors which impart their own properties to different objects, from which rays are emitted and distort and disfigure them.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "El mapa no es el territorio" (Alfred Korzybski)

But, friend, to meHe is all fault who hath no fault at all.For who loves me must have a touch of earth.

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?

The real history does not get written, because it is not in people's brains but in their nerves and vitals.

The misconception which has haunted philosophic literature throughout the centuries is the notion of 'independent existence.' There is no such mode of existence; every entity is to be understood in terms of the way it is interwoven with the rest of the universe.

There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.

Rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality. Unlimited possibility and abstract creativity can procure nothing. The limitation, and the basis arising from what is already actual, are both of them necessary and interconnected.

It belongs essentially to the advance of civilization as more and more organized increasing domination, that nature takes revenge on the men who have degraded it to mere material for human aims, by ensuring that men can only buy their domination by an ever-increasing suppression of their own nature. The division of nature and man in labour is reflected in the irreconcilability of the pleasure principle and the reality principle.

No matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney.

No todo lo que lleva habitó es santa rosa

the majority of people go past the doors that are half ajar, thinking them closed, and fail to notice the faint stirrings of the great curtain that hangs ever in the form of appearances between them and the world of causes behind.