Quotes About Reality

Probability is always an expression of the human limitation of knowledge and is never some facet of nature.

Only a mentality that could see the entire multiverse would be able to dispense with probabilities.

The truth is more important than the facts.

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen

A threat to kill is unreal--actual blood and shredded flesh has its own reality.

If we are continuously producing things which have no attribute of matter, there must be in us some element which is not matter, to produce them. This element we call spirit.

We possess our being, the philosophers say, successively.

It wasn't a dream it was a flood

I dream and it is another life

What you see is what you see

It is my opinion that the isolated mind loses its purchase on reality all too easily and becomes prone to fantasy.

Ak nebudeme žiadaÃ…Â¥ vesmír o veci, ktoré nám nemôže daÃ…Â¥, nezdrví nás realita. Nepotrebujeme jediný a definitívny dôvod života. Posta?í aj ?ubovo?né množstvo menÅ¡ích.

The more you can escape from how horrible things really are, the less it's going to bother you...and then, the worse things get.

Failure is one of those things that 'serious people' dread. Invariably, the persons most likely to be crippled by this fear are people who have convinced themselves that they are SO bitchen they shouldn't ever be placed in a situation where they might fail. Failure is nothing to get upset about. It's a fairly normal condition; an inevitability in ninety-nine percent of all human undertakings. Success is rare—that's why people get so cranked up about it.

Journalism was vigilant about separating the church of editorial from the secular concerns of business. We can now see the justification for such fanaticism about building a thick, tall wall between the two. The fear was that we'd enter a world where readers couldn't tell the difference between editorial and advertising—where the corrupt hand of advertisers would interfere with the journalistic search for truth. Those fears are in the process of being realized.

it is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.' 'A melancholy conclusion,' said K. 'It turns lying into a universal principle.

No, said the priest, you don't need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary. Depressing view, said K. The lie made into the rule of the world.

What's happened to me,' he thought. It was no dream.

It is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary

There has never been a time in which I have been convinced from within myself that I am alive. You see, I have only such a fugitive awareness of things around me that I always feel they were once real and are now fleeting away. I have a constant longing, my dear sir, to catch a glimpse of things as they may have been before they show themselves to me. I feel that they were calm and beautiful. It must be so, for I often hear people talking about them as though they were.

For we are like tree trunks in the snow. In appearance they lie smoothly and a little push should be enough to set them rolling. No, it can't be done, for they are firmly wedded to the ground. But see, even that is only appearance.

Some deny the existence of misery by pointing to the sun; he denies the existence of the sun by pointing to misery.

Deceptions are more frequent than changes

Everything you say is boring and incomprehensible, but that alone doesn't make it true.