Quotes About Reality

All our actions must be directed, in the last analysis, to making ourselves passive in relation to the activity and the being of divine Reality. We are, as it were, aeolian harps, endowed with the power either to expose themselves to the wind of the Spirit or to shut themselves away from it.

He woke once more to external reality, looked round him, knew what he saw- knew it, with a sinking sense of horror and disgust, for the recurrent delirium of his days and nights, the nightmare of swarming indistinguishable sameness.

Do you know what it's like, he asked at length, to feel that nothing is quite real -- including yourself? Susila nodded. It sometimes happens when one's just on the point of discovering that everything, including oneself, is much more real than one ever imagined. It's like shifting gears: you have to go into neutral before you change into high.

Poate p?rea ciudat, dar cele mai apropiate de realitate sunt întotdeauna operele literare considerate a fi cel mai puÅ£in adev?rate. S-ar putea ca realitatea în totalitatea ei s? fie întotdeauna mult prea puÅ£in demn? de a fi înregistrat?, prea lipsit? de sens sau prea oribil? pentru a r?mâne neliteraturizat?.

Even the best cookery book is no substitute for even the worst dinner.

I, real I? But where, but how, but at what price?

We must learn how to handle words effectively; but at the same time we must preserve and, if necessary, intensify our ability to look at the world directly and not through that half opaque medium of concepts, which distorts every given fact into the all too familiar likeness of some generic label or explanatory abstraction.

Cómo puede el cuerdo saber lo que realmente se siente cuando se está loco?

Mind at Large has to be funnelled through the reducing valve of the brain and nervous system. What comes out at the other end is a measly trickle of the kind of consciousness which will help us to stay alive on the surface of this particular planet. To

Dualism…Without it there can hardly be good literature. With it, there most certainly can be no good life.

He was a philosopher, if you know what that was.' 'A man who dreams of fewer things than there are in heaven and earth,' said the Savage promptly.

There can be no cancellation of accomplished facts; but for practical purposes a conspiracy of silence is almost as effective as cancellation. Unmentioned, what is can become as though it were not.

The trouble with fiction is that it makes too much sense, whereas reality never makes sense.

Success went fizzily to Bernard's head, and in the process completely reconciled him (as any good intoxicant should do) to a world which, up till then, he had found very unsatisfactory.

La felicidad real siempre aparece escuálida en comparación con las compensaciones que ofrece la desdicha.

There seems to be plenty of it," was all I would answer, when the investigator asked me to say what I felt about time.

ÇoÄŸumuzun sadece meskalin etkisi alt?nda gördüÄŸünü her zaman görme yetisi sanatç?ya doÄŸuÅŸtan verilmiÅŸtir. Onun alg?s? biyolojik ve toplumsal olarak yararl? olanla s?n?rl? deÄŸildir. Büyük bilince ait bilginin biraz? beyin ve egonun indirgeme filtresinden s?zar ve sanatç?n?n bilincine akar.

The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal.

The right to the pursuit of happiness is nothing else than the right to disillusionment phrased in another way.

He squeezed her limp hand almost with violence, as though he would force her to come back from this dream of ignoble pleasures, from these base and hateful memories_back into the present, back into reality: the appalling present, the awful reality_but sublime, but significant, but desperately important precisely because of the imminence of that which made them so fearful.

Swallowing half an hour before closing time, that second dose of soma had raised a quite impenetrable wall between the actual universe and their minds. Bottled, they crossed the street; bottled, they took the lift up to Henry's room on the twenty-eight floor.

But then the course of events takes no account of verisimilitude. Fiction has to be probable; fact does not.

Naša nas taština tjera da preuveli?avamo ljudski život.

The fact that extremely diversified phenomena are explained in terms of laws having the same form or pattern gives us information... about the structure of the various levels of reality with which the mind deals; for presumably the pattern of a hypothesis must have some correspondence, if it works, with the pattern of the phenomena which it explains.