Quotes About Reality

But I was so wrapped up in sports growing up as a kid, that I think I was going to grow to be a pro ball player. But I found out real quick that was not going to happen.

Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence.

Pidän ihmistä vaaleanpunaisena aistidatan kokoelmana.

He contained two equal sorts of knowledge: the warm lazy knowledge that above on the mountain a blond girl in a white dress waited for him, shy and eager; and the cooler knowledge that this was unlikely and the good of climbing was the exercise and view from the top. There was no conflict between these knowledges, his mind passed easily from one to the other, but when he stood up to begin the last of the climb the thought of the girl was stronger.

To cry out that the emperor had no clothes on was at least to pick on one man only to the amusement of everyone else; to declare that almost everyone is dressed in rags is much less likely to be popular.

if human beings really grasped how synthetic their world was - how much of it was stitched together not from direct perception, but from interpolation, memory, educated guesswork - they would go quietly mad.

Siamo sempre inclini a dimenticare ciò che abbiamo detto o fatto nel passato, anche per non avere il tremendo obbligo di rimanervi fedeli. Mi pare che altrimenti tutti dovremmo scoprirci pieni di errori, e, soprattutto, di contraddizioni, tra quello che ci siamo proposti di fare e quello che abbiamo fatto, tra quello che avremmo desiderato di essere e quello che ci siamo accontentati di essere in realtà. [Quaderno proibito]

School taught me only to read and write. And that sliver of learning set me on the surest road to starving to death in honesty and ignorance. You were the first to open my eyes to widespread corruption. To have understood that the only forces that drive humanity are thieving and swindling - that's real intelligence. And you didn't even go to school.

We all know that light travels faster than sound. That's why certain people appear bright until you hear them speak.

One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is the most precious thing we have.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

Our separation from each other is an optical illusion.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

Truth is what stands the test of experience.

Earth is the insane asylum of the universe.

There is nothing known as Perfect. Its only those imperfections which we choose not to see!!

Concerning matter, we have been all wrong. What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration has been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses. There is no matter.

Do you really believe that the moon isn't there when nobody looks?

Just because you don't believe in something doesn't mean it isn't true.

Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value, elly judgments of all kinds remain necessary.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

The theory must not contradict empirical facts