Quotes About Reality

It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears.

As he looked at his reflection in the dresser mirror, he felt that recurring surprise that the tall, attractive man staring back was he, and beyond that was the wonder that the image bore no real relationship to the man himself.

I see myself at 7:30 in the morning and it's not too pretty.

You can be with one of the most beautiful women in the world and still be unhappy.

Dreaming was only nice while it lasted.

the only thing of any use is the truth.

Remembering is just an invention of the mind... It means that if you want to, you can remember anything, whether it happened or not... You don't need a time machine if you can remember.

Matter of fact, I watch tons of tube, but I also read tons of books so I can figure out what's true and what's fake, which isn't always easy. Books are like truth serum--if you don't read, you can't figure out what's real.

MASSIVES, fat heads who assume that television tells the truth" -Kevin 'Freak' from Freak's Dictionary --"Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick pg 165

People seldom live up to their baby pictures.

distant as the death of grocery chickens.

The cause of our suffering is not what we do, but the way we perceive.

Lógico es todo lo que se entiende aunque no sea verdad.

Knowledge begins through them and is

Here is the platform and principle of the whole structure of our knowledge. <> He who could push me into contradicting the senses would have me by the throat; he could not push me further back. The senses are the beginning and the end of human knowledge:

Of all absurdities the most absurd, <> is to disavow the force and efficacy of the senses: Whatever has been seen at some time is true. And if reason cannot distinguish the cause Why those things that, seen near at hand, were square Are seen round at a distance, still it is better Through lack of argument to err in accounting For the causes of either shape Rather than to allow things clearly seen to elude your grasp, Attack the grounds of belief, and tear up the

The same trick that the senses play on our

El mañana en México suele ser un lugar donde se guardan los fragmentos de los deseos que se estrellaron contra la realidad. Es el cementerio de los proyectos fallidos.

da la impresión de que se ha inventado una realidad falsa y no sabemos si realmente cree en ella o sólo lo pretende.

La melancolía le permite a Kierkegaard ser él mismo, Convierte a la persona en el corazón de la realidady rechaza toda mediación entre el individuo y el mundo que lo rodea, un mundo que es absurdo y, además, aburrido. En 1845 escribió: "¿Cuál es mi enfermedad? Melancolía. ¿Dónde se asienta esta enfermedad? En el poder de la imaginación".

Management wizard Jim Collins, best-selling author of Good to Great and Built to Last, argues that what must glaringly separate great companies from mediocre ones is the latter's tendency "to explain away the brutal facts rather than to confront the brutal facts head-on.

As Mark Twain reportedly said, "It's not what you don't know that gets you into trouble, it's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

Only two months after the battle he wrote a sad description of his own fate: "I spend my time building castles in the air, but in the end all of them, and I, blow away in the end." It is an epitaph that might serve all the empire builders of the violent century.

Plantinga explained, the scientific search for truth assumes nature is not all there is. If nature is all there is, then truth itself is a chimera and our human faculties for discovering and knowing it are unreliable.