Quotes About Reality

Womenfolks have powerful imaginations when it comes to a man, an' she can read things into him he never knew was there, and like as not, they ain't!

Because a man plays a king superbly well does not mean that he would make a good king.

A man often creates an image of a girl in his mind but when it comes right down to it that's the only place the girl exists.

A man who starts imagining that others think good because he does is simply out of his mind. I've helped bury a few who did think that way... nice, peaceful men who wanted no trouble and made none. When feeding time comes around there's nothing a hawk likes better than a nice, fat, peaceful dove.

The point is," Frank said, "that we're here. No use talking about what should have been.

A body shouldn't heed what might be. He's got to do with what is.

We accept the familiar and the usual. We are comfortable with it. We do not want our nice three-dimensional world shattered. We enjoy our certainty, and even Einstein shied from the erratic world of the quantum theory. It suggested a chaos with which he was not prepared to deal.

men must always remember, that civilization is a flimsy cloak, and just outside are hunger, thirst, and cold…waiting.

There is no good time in which to die

Remember this, my son: our world is one where the impossible occurs every day, and what we often call supernatural is simply the misunderstood.

If behaving as thought we had free will or God exists gets us results we want, we will not only come to believe those things; they will be, pragmatically, true.

Peirce's theory of signs—there are no prerepresentational objects out there. Things are themselves signs: their being signs is a condition of their being things at all.

Every thing is what it is" is a famous phrase in British philosophy, and the essence of the empirical view.44*

the true is the name of whatever proves itself to be good in the way of belief.

The impossible is more believable than the highly improbable.

We may be surrounded by some greater reality, to which we are oblivious. And even if we could somehow perceive it in some entirely new way, it is extremely doubtful we would be able to comprehend what we perceived.

An idea doesn't die, said Trapp. It exists somewhere, in its own dimension, waiting to be perceived.

Now you be careful in the real world said Armpit Not everyone is as nice as us.

Toni hears voices, said Trapp. But who is this Dr. Ellsworth to tell her she's a schizophrenic? Maybe she just perceives better than the rest of us. Maybe the voices she hears are just uncommunicated ideas, floating free.

There is no Miss Zarves. There is no nineteenth story. Sorry.

empty brown paper sack would taste better. But

19 Miss Zarves There is no Miss Zarves. There is no nineteenth story. Sorry.

Bad dreams are better than good dreams. When you have a bad dream, you wake up, you look around, and you say, Whew! It was only a dream. Everything is still the same as it was—wonderful! When you have a good dream, you wake up, you look around, and you say, Darn! It was only a dream. Everything is still the same as it was—rotten.

There are some people who are so cold and unfeeling, like reflections in a mirror, that they might as well be imaginary.