Quotes About Reality

Poate c? tânjesc dup? un miracol… Care anume? S? încetez s? m? v?d acÈ›ionând. S? nu mai fiu actiÅ£a, nici spectatoarea propriei persoane. S? încetez s? m? mai judec, s? m? critic, s?-mi percep impostura. ?i, în cele din urm?, precum un cub de zahar în ap?, s? m? cufund în realitate si s? m? dizolv în ea.

J'ai l'impression, Mamie-Rose, qu'on a inventé un autre hôpital que celui qui existe vraiment. On fait comme si on ne venait à l'hôpital que pour guérir. Alors qu'on y vient aussi pour mourir. - Tu as raison, Oscar. Et je crois qu'on fait la même erreur pour la vie. Nous oublions que la vie est fragile, friable, éphémère. Nous faisons tous semblant d'être immortels.

Od prawdy zawsze wola?am niepewno??.

Dimentichiamo che la vita è fragile, friabile, effimera. Facciamo tutti finta di essere immortali.

Tanti Roz, mi se pare c? au inventat un alt spital decât cel real. Se prefac c? oamenii nu vin la spital decât ca s? se vindece. DeÈ™i unii vin ca s? moar?. -Ai dreptate, Oscar. ?i cred c? facem aceeaÈ™i greÈ™eal? È™i-n privinÈ›a vieÈ›ii. Uit?m c? viaÈ›a e fragil?, f?râmicioas?, efemer?. Ne credem toÈ›i nemuritori.

Adev?rul r?mâne inaccesibil, nu exist? decât adev?ruri provizorii, tentative de adev?r.

Hakikat, bizim en fazla hoÅŸumuza giden yalan?n ta kendisidir, öyle deÄŸil mi?

Freedom is not a constant attribute which we either have or have not. In fact, there is no such thing as freedom except as a word and an abstract concept. There is only one reality: the act of freeing ourselves in the process of making choices. In this process the degree of our capacity to make choices varies with each act, with our practice of life.

Rationalizing is not a tool for penetration of reality but a post-factum attempt to harmonize one's own wishes with existing reality.

We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.

The pathetic superstition prevails that by knowing more and more facts one arrives at knowledge of reality. Hundreds of scattered and unrelated facts are dumped into the heads of students; their time and energy are taken up by learning more and more facts so that there is little left for thinking. To be sure, thinking without a knowledge of facts remains empty and fictitious; but "information" alone can be just as much of an obstacle to thinking as the lack of it.

The paradoxical situation with a vast number of people today is that they are half asleep when awake, and half awake when asleep, or when they want to sleep.

The basic for any approach to self-transformation is an ever-increasing awareness of reality and the shedding of illusions.

We have faith in the potentialities of other, of ourselves, and of mankind because, and only to the degree which, we have experienced the growth of our own potentialities, the reality of growth in ourselves, the strength of our own power of reason and of love.

An illusion shared by everyone becomes a reality.

Reality imposes its law on man, laws that he can only escape in dreams or in states of trance—or in insanity.

Man can only know the nagation, never the position of ultimate reality.

To be naive and easily deceived is impermissible, today more than ever, when the prevailing untruths may lead to a catastrophe because they blind people to real dangers and real possibilities.

The "tourist" with his camera is an outstanding symbol of an alienated relationship to the world. Being constantly occupied with taking pictures, actually he does not see anything at all, except through the intermediary of the camera. The camera sees for him, and the outcome of his "pleasure" trip is a collection of snapshots, which are the substitute for an experience which he could have had, but did not have.

all of us are more or less insane, or more or less asleep

I feel like people start to believe things that people say about them and start to think they're really important. If you have a family that is down to earth and cool, I don't see how you can be like that.

Feelings, not facts, are essential to a good gaslighting.

Maybe that's what love is, in the end: a shared illusion of safety.

that were not the case. Unfortunately, there is