Quotes About Reality

El filósofo transforma los planteamientos iniciales relativos al concepto, y afirma la existencia de un «mundo de las ideas», que es modelo del mundo real. Este mundo es para Platón mucho más real que el que habitualmente llamamos «realidad». El mundo de las ideas es incluso, por así decir, el único mundo real.

La verdad, para Platón, no está en las sensaciones, siempre cambiantes y muchas veces contrarias de un individuo a otro. La verdad reside, eterna e inmutable, en el mundo de las ideas, donde los filósofos pueden contemplar las formas verdaderas. La labor del filósofo consiste, por lo tanto, en transformar la sociedad conforme a este modelo ideal.

Birth and death - what could be more monstrous than that? We like to deceive ourselves and call it wondrous and beautiful and majestic, but it's freakish, let's face it.

To let go is not to be protective. It's to permit another to face reality.

To let go is not to be in the middle arranging the outcome, but to allow others to affect their own destinies. To let go is not to be protective. It's to permit another to face reality.

What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.

A strange thing, he thought, the way the human mind could form false systems of belief and cling to them in the face of the laws of love and the certainty of death.

All difficulties in this life, every moment of difficulty, come from the distance between what is and what we want to be.

Though we do not wholly believe it yet, the interior life is a real life, and the intangible dreams of people have a tangible effect on the world. —James Baldwin

He laughed. I had made a joke, apparently. "What difference makes what you believe? What happens will happen anyway, exactly the same, no matter what you believe. What you do makes the important part. What you do.

Lying in bed with his eyes open, he searched the shadows around him, trying to find some steadying, reassuring objects. But the reality was at least as threatening as the nightmares. Having swallowed up all of the familiar shapes of the furniture, the darkness took on the aspect of some unearthly challenge: within this nothingness something monstrous and unknown was surely being spawned. The room had become a kind of breeding ground for monsters.

What a beautiful thing, to walk amidst the endless diversity of life with the ability to perceive the source and the reality of its unity.

You may not be what you think you are, but what you think, you are. Jim Clark

Vet jeg hvor virkeligheten er? Er jeg rot eller er jeg krone? Er det ikke stjerner også der, av svakt lysende sten?

Nevertheless, it's important, even on a personal level, to not just look at things as we travel but to see things for what they are.

Myth is mecessary because reality is so much larger than rationality.

Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we do not experience it.

Courage is not a virtue or value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundations that underlies and gives reality to all other virtue and personal values. (p. 13)

When we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself; it is always dependent upon the reality of the immediate relationship.

The odd belief prevails in our culture that a thing or experience is not real if we cannot make it mathematical, and somehow it must be real if we can reduce it to numbers. But this means making an abstraction out of it - mathematics is the abstract par excellence, which is indeed its glory and the reason for its great usefulness.

Every human being gets much of his sense of his own reality out of what others say to him and think about him.

This is what anxiety does to the human being: it disorients him, wiping out temporarily his clear knowledge of what and who he is, and blurring his view of reality around him.

Ma io non ci tengo tanto a essere felice, preferisco ancora la vita. La felicità è una bella schifezza e una carogna e bisognerebbe insegnarle a vivere. Non siamo della stessa razza, io e lei, e a me non me ne frega niente.

Besides, there's nothing like the truth to make a convincing lie.