Quotes About Reality

A fact must be assimilated with, or discriminated fromm, some other fact or facts, in order to be raised to the dignity of a truth, and made to convey the least knowledge to the mind.

There can be knowledge of the diabolical, but no belief in it, for more of the diabolical than there is does not exist.

Between knowledge of what really exists and ignorance of what does not exist lies the domain of opinion. It is more obscure than knowledge, but clearer than ignorance.

Does it not occur to people that I might be artificial by nature?

Maybe knowledge is as fundamental, or even more fundamental than [material] reality.

If everything had a label, we would live in a fully delineated but false world.

The subjectivist states his judgements, whereas the objectivist sweeps them under the carpet by calling assumptions knowledge, and he basks in the glorious objectivity of science.

Time, space, and causality are only metaphors of knowledge, with which we explain things to ourselves.

Perfect knowledge comes only when you see the world in yourself, just as he who awakes from the dream then knows he saw his dream-world with its suns and stars in himself.

None of this is real. All of this is an illusion and your acceptance of that fact is the beginning of the pathway to self-knowledge.

Knowledge is to certain extent a second existence.

In media, there's a distance and an unrealistic expectation of knowledge about a person that's created.

The trouble with the media is that it seems unable to distinguish between the end of the world and a bicycle accident.

Wikipedia is forcing people to accept the stone-cold bummer that knowledge is produced and constructed by argument rather than by divine inspiration.

She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth.

Maybe you are already lost and just do not know it.

Men forget where the way leads and what they meet with every day seems strange to them.We should not act and speak like men asleep.

This is only a small part of the totality. From this island earth we see only a fragment of creation and its knowledge.

It is not so bad being ignorant if you are totally ignorant; the hard thing is knowing in some detail the reality of ignorance.

The mind of man is this world's true dimension; and knowledge is the measure of the mind.

Whether you know the shape of a pebble or the structure of a solar system, the anxioms remain the same: that it exists and that you know it.

...knowledge of material reality is the knowledge of death.

Knowledge, or more expressively truth,--for knowledge is truth received into our intelligence,--truth is an ideal whole.

Our conjectures pass upon us for truths; we will know what we do not know, and often, what we cannot know: so mortifying to our pride is the base suspicion of ignorance.