Quotes About Reality

The world is a very serious and, at times, very sad place - but at other times it is all such a joke.

When am I happy and when am I sad and what is the difference? What do I need to know to stay alive? What is true in the world?

Oil runs America and it's the sad reality.

I was terribly, painfully present in the world, and so far removed from it.

Science is part of the reality of living; it is the what, the how, and the why of everything in our experience.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

When I hear of Schrödinger's cat, I reach for my pistol.

Why are things as they are and not otherwise?

A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.

A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.

The meaning of world is the separation of wish and fact.

What I thought was unreal now, for me, seems in some ways to be more real than what I think to be real, which seems now to be unreal

Consciousness ... is the phenomenon whereby the universe's very existence is made known.

The existence of God is not subjective. He either exists or he doesn't. It's not a matter of opinion. You can have your own opinions. But you can't have your own facts.

The idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe.

Pure logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge of the empirical world. All knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in it.

What quantum physics teaches us is that everything we thought was physical is not physical.

The science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality in principle, leaving only the details to be filled in.

Science and religion are both the same thing. They're there; they're life. If it's not science, it's not a fact.

The world is a construct of our sensations, perceptions, memories. It is convenient to regard it as existing objectively on its own. But it certainly does not become manifest by its mere existence.

Our Being is Becoming, not stasis. Our Science is Utopia, our Reality is Eros, our Desire is Revolution.

When science discovers the center of the universe a lot of people will be disappointed to find they are not it.

The essential fact is that all the pictures which science now draws of nature, and which alone seem capable of according with observational facts, are mathematical pictures.

Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.