Quotes About Reality

You know, people, just being beautiful isn't enough. Tiara looked confused. But... it always has been.

Idealism is just an escape from reality. There is no utopia.

It is rather alarming how quickly people will turn someone else's fiction into fact in order to support their own fictions of themselves.

But as he listened to the moans and cries of those around him, he understood that hope was not a concept of faith meant to bring man closer to God but one of denial and delusion meant to keep him from accepting that God did not exist.

Now is the only thing you can count on, Sam. It's all we really get, she said quietly, and felt that it was the truest thing she'd ever said.

There is no meaning but what we assign. We create our own reality. I can live with that.

He imagined that one day he'd hear that his parents were gone and feel only a vague sense of loss. How could you mourn something you'd never really had?

People will believe anything if it means they can go on living their lives and not have to think too hard about it.

Dreams are where we will meet again. In love, in yearning, in fear. Dreams, like countries, are ideas: all reality gestates first inside a dream. Dreams are information for those who read their tea leaves come morning. They are tiny little maps of souls. Of every secret, we push aside while we are awake.....Dreams know you better than you know yourself.

Isn't it enough that this world exists? That we can be everything here that we can't be when we are awake?" Wai-Mae asked. "No," Ling said. "I want to know how it works.

But people rarely want the truth. We say that we want it when, really, we like being lied to. We prefer the ether of hope.

The truth] is what actually happens. Not what you want to happen. Not what you're afraid will happen. We make up stories when we want things to happen or are afraid they may happen. And sometimes we do it for fun-or to scare people or make them do our way or to hurt them. And sometimes we do it because it's a pretty story and we tell it just as we fly a kite or send balloons floating.

Mengejek adalah cara yang sangat tidak menyenangkan untuk menyatakan kebenaran.

Dr. Purchase, the closest likeness to a flesh-and-blood Walter Mitty Logan had ever met

It's the living who are left to suffer. A hard truth, but that's the way it is.

He supposed he knew, rationally, that she wasn't the prettiest woman in the world, but if his eyes saw any imperfections, his heart didn't care.

There was political correctness, and then there was reality, and the reality was that people were people. -Mr. Perfect

Unfortunately, what should or should not be had no relation to what was.

Justice, of course, was an elusive thing, very subjective in some ways, too often more of a concept than a reality, but without the pursuit of that ideal, where would humanity be?

A myth is a story that is more than true. Many stories are true because one person, somewhere, at some time, lived it. It is based on fact. But a myth is more than true because it is lived by all of us, at some level. It's a story that connects and speaks to us all.

But the truth might as well not exist to those who refuse to believe it.

There is a real world; its properties are not merely social constructions; facts and evidence do matter. What sane person would contend otherwise? And yet, much contemporary academic theorizing consists precisely of attempts to blur these obvious truths.

However, these criteria, admirable as they are, are insufficient for a liberatory, postmodern science: they liberate human beings from the tyranny of absolute truth and objective reality, but not necessarily from the tyranny of other human beings. In Andrew Ross's words, we need a science that will he publicly answerable and of some service to progressive interests 0991, 29).

I don't know if you or I exist, but somewhere there are poems about us.