Quotes About Reality

When you look directly at an insane man all you see is a reflection of your own knowledge that he's insane, which is not to see him at all.

These soliloquies explain our people's lack of stability You keepin it real, but ain't got a clue what reality really be See the diameter of your knowledge Is the circumference of your activity

Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one's own awareness is direct knowledge.

There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.

How surely a knowledge of the world hardens the heart!

What we call knowledge does not and cannot have the purpose of producing representations of an independent reality, but instead has an adaptive function.

Monotheism owes its existence not to philosophic speculation about the nature of reality or knowledge or virtue, but to acceptance of reality identified with a supreme being.

The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.

Science, in the broadest sense, includes all reasonable claims to knowledge about ourselves and the world.

The assumption of perfect knowledge is very far from reality ... a lot of the evil in the world is actually not intentional.

The science [geometry] is pursued for the sake of the knowledge of what eternally exists, and not of what comes for a moment into existence, and then perishes.

We are anxious when there is a dissonance between our "knowledge" and the perceivable facts. Since our "knowledge" is not to be doubted or questioned, it is the facts that have to be altered.

To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed. It means putting oneself into a certain relation to the world that feels like knowledge-and therefore, like power.

He who knows what he is told must know a lot of things that are not so.

No Discourse whatsoever, can End in absolute Knowledge of Fact.

Knowledge of the world means dissolving the solidity of the world.

... I prefer true but imperfect knowledge, even if it leaves much undetermined and unpredictable, to a pretense of exact knowledge that is likely to be false.

Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered.

Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human beings will prefer the fleeting comforts of superstition.

The third principle is that any philosophic knowledge is only valuable if it is true or if it works.

Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

To know things as they are is better than to believe things as they seem.

Any path to knowledge is a path to God-or Reality, whichever word one prefers to use

Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment, giving assent to that which is not true.