Quotes About Reality

It is merely that there is only so much people can do to be happy, no matter what they think they should do.

Is any story not always the narrator's story, in the end?

for in the world of the mad, time is not a continuum but a fluid, shifting place, relative to nothing.

Space and time emerge from the laws rather than providing an arena in which things happen.

there is nothing real or true that is timeless

We live in a broken world; Jesus was honest enough to tell us we'd have trials and tribulations. Sure, I'd like to understand more about why. But Kreeft's conclusion was right--the ultimate answer is Jesus' presence. That sounds sappy, I know. But just wait--when your world is rocked, you don't want philosophy or theology as much as you want the reality of Christ. He was the answer for me. He was the very answer we needed.

Back at my motel, I mentally played back my interview with Boyd. I felt the same way he did: If the Jesus of faith is not also the Jesus of history, he's powerless and he's meaningless. Unless he's rooted in reality, unless he established his divinity by rising from the dead, he's just a feel-good symbol who's as irrelevant as Santa Claus.

Kirjailija ei tosin minun mielestäni ole taikuri joka hokkus-pokkuskeinoilla tarjoaa hetken paon ankeasta arjesta, vaan pikemminkin hän on hovimestari joka järjestää lukijalleen tapaamisen todellisuuden kanssa. Mutta katsas on rakennettava mielikuvitusta ja sisäisiä näkyjä noudattaen.

Although saying this, I realize it may have been illusory. Memory's oldest trick is convincing us of its accuracy.

The surface of everything is thinner than we know. A person can fall right through, without any warning at all.

telegram saying, "Existence is great but don't read so much into it.

The surface of everything is thinner than we know. A person can fall right through, without any warning at all. Virgil Wander

A person can't regret honesty any more than other unavoidables—a plain face or a poor history.

Existence is great but don't read so much into it.

To enjoy in tragedy that which one would not willingly suffer in reality is "miserable madness" (miserabilis insania).

The 'what should be' never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no 'what should be,' there is only what is.

There is only what is and that's it. What should be is a dirty lie.

There is only what is.

The problem inherent in the surface of things, and only in the surface of things, is the heart of things.

You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.

Truth is what people want to believe and nothing more.

Truth is only what people want to believe and nothing more.

Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore

With regard to both the physical and the social world, one of the main lessons of neuroscience is that our perception of reality is something we actively construct, not a passive documentation of objective events.