Quotes About Reality

Americans think their odds of success, and of rising from the bottom to the top, are much higher than they are

Just as Bartimaeus was: by going to Jesus and calling out to Him for mercy, asking for the loving forgiveness and new life that only He can provide. You will never know Jesus Christ as a reality in your life until you know Him as a necessity.

You will never know Jesus Christ as a reality in your life until you know him as a necessity.

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true." Napoleon Hill

As soon as I saw him again I could forget all this existed; I would be calm. Was that a definition of love: a force that can drug you with calm and help you forget all the sandpaper realities of the world?

There is a difference between the facts of a person and the truth of him.

Writers of fiction embellish reality almost without knowing it.

Funerals are the rituals we create to help us face the reality of death, to give us a way of expressing our response to that reality with other persons, and to protect us from the full impact of the meaning of death for ourselves. Some funerals fulfill these functions beautifully. Others fail.

It may well be that a society's greatest madness seems normal to itself.

The end result is that there can be no more truth or goodness and no need or even ability to make tough choices. Where the purpose of higher education once was to enable the student to find truth, the modern university teaches that there is no truth, only 'lifestyle.

For modern men who live in a world transformed by abstractions and who have themselves been transformed by abstractions, the only way to experience man again is by thinking these abstractions through with the help of thinkers who did not share them and who can lead us to experiences that are difficult or impossible to have without their help.

By what procedures do men establish the rule-governed links they do between language, on the one hand, and the real world, on the other?

O homem pode enganar -se, deixar -se iludir, sem que, por isso, seja louco.

Aquele que mais desejais será, talvez, precisamnete o que não obtereis

my aim in writing The Watch That Ends the Night was not to present history. My aim was to present humanity. The people represented in this book lived and breathed and loved. They were as real as you or me. They could have been any one of us.

Our government has made a number of promises to the men and women who served in our nation's armed forces. Sadly, these promises of health care, education and other benefits have existed more in rhetoric than in reality.

Just one cigarette' is a myth you must get out of your mind.

Elusive reality does not discourage Umpire Two. We don't have to fully perceive or understand the underlying nature of our world to negotiate it well. Our senses and reasoning powers evolved as they did because they work just fine in the everyday, nonphilosophical business of survival. Mental constructs of reality are imperfect, but indispensable, ways to organize the otherwise bewildering phenomena of the world.

A naked lunch is natural to us, we eat reality sandwiches But allegories are so much lettuce. Don't hide the madness.

Because systems of mass communication can communicate only officially acceptable levels of reality, no one can know the extent of the secret unconscious life. No one in America can know what will happen. No one is in real control.

I don't think there is any truth. There are only points of view.

I really believe, or want to believe, really I am nuts, otherwise I'll never be sane.

Do not be content with an imaginary god.

Well, first of all, we've got to get away from being offended by the truth. We've seen a 41 percent increase in food stamp recipients across the United States of America since President Obama was sworn in in January 2009. That has nothing to do with black, white, Hispanic or whatever. It's a fact, and we need to, you know, deal with that.