Quotes About Reality

Upon my word,' said Dantes, 'you make me tremble. If I listen much longer to you, I shall believe the world is filled with tigers and crocodiles.' 'Remember that two-legged tigers and crocodiles are more dangerous than those that walk on four.

That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?

Come now, be a man!' he thought. 'We are used to adversity; let's not be crushed by a mere disappointment, or else I shall have suffered for nothing. The heart breaks when it has swelled too much in the warm breath of hope, then finds itself enclosed in cold reality.

The heart breaks when it has swelled too much in the warm breath of hope, then finds itself enclosed in cold reality.

il n'y a ni bonheur ne malheur en ce monde, il y a la comparaison d'un etat a un autre, voila tout.

The same thing is happening to me as happens to people in dreams when they see and feel a wound but can't remember having received it.

The heart breaks when, after having been elated by flattering hopes, it sees all its illusions destroyed.

Pooh! Women say those things, but never do them.

Truth, most succinctly defined is: That Which Is So. Non-Truth, most succinctly defined is: That Which Is Not So.

What do we mean when we say "meaning"? For our purposes it's not one thing, a single gem of wisdom. It's the stream of insight, understanding, realization, and acceptance that one continually gains from personal experience, and that adds up to the subjective reality called me. The me in meaning is aimed primarily at seeing the significance of our experiences not for others, but for ourselves. We are philosophers of I. Take

The most difficult lie I have ever contended with is this: life is a story about me.

The world has a body and I have none

As you know, you go to war with the army you have. They're not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.

Only the ignorant would believe that things exist in the way that they appear.

The reality of human behavior is that most people avoid those activities in which they perceive themselves to be failures.

As Marion Montgomery, summarizing Etienne Gilson, puts it, "We know, and know that we know, that life and meaning have real existence, though science cannot substantiate that reality because the reality at issue lies in a dimension of immateriality."4

Keep uppermost in your mind that the illusion that you experience is an illusion, that it is surrounding you for the purpose of teaching you. It can only teach you if you become aware of its teachings.

Everything we think we know about the world is a model. Our models do have a strong congruence with the world. Our models fall far short of representing the real world fully.

Language] can serve as a medium through which we create new understandings and new realities as we begin to talk about them. In fact, we don't talk about what we see; we see only what we can talk about.

After a session of working with a model, computer or mental, it's a good idea to step back for a moment and remember that it is not the "real world" we have been experiencing, but a representation that is "realistic" in some respects, "unrealistic" in others. The task is to find insight in the model from those features of the scenarios that seem "realistic.

Worse yet, there are those who would abandon the tangible world altogether in favor of a virtual reality assembled in computer networks - memory palaces dislodged from the earth and inhabited by electronic speculation. We intend to remain unabashedly earthbound, ready to spend out limited days imagining palpable places, places that people can reach on their feet and fill with their presence.

Mothers have to pretend to be perfect[.] If we didn't, anarchy would rule the world. But most of the time we're just doing the best we can and trying to get better at it everyday

When we're not busy being somewhere else, more often than not what we participate with is our past or future version of ourselves and our life. Instead of seeing how things actually are, we continue to see them as they once were or as we imagine they will be.

To create a community where faith matters not just in theory but in reality, faith has to be a public value, not just a private one.