Quotes About Reality

Coração das trevas talvez seja o maior exemplo de como o ser humano pode ignorar a realidade brutal que o cerca.

It's queer how out of touch with truth women are. They live in a world of their own, and there has never been anything like it, and never can be. It is too beautiful altogether, and if they were to set it up it would go to pieces before the first sunset. Some confounded fact we men have been living contentedly with ever since the day of creation would start up and knock the whole thing over.

en dehors de l'optique d'espérance éternelle, en dehors de la tromperie des habitudes prises et de l'attente du bonheur toujours rêvé

They wanted facts. Facts! They demanded facts from him, as if facts could explain anything

Les mots, vous le savez, sont les plus grands ennemis de la réalité.

Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.

you know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appalls me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies— which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world— what I want to forget. It makes me miserable and sick, like biting something rotten would do.

Vivimos igual que soñamos: solos.

I was made to look at the convention that lurks in all truth and on the essential sincerity of falsehood.

Es extraño lo lejos que están las mujeres de la realidad. Viven en un mundo propio que jamás ha existido y que nunca podrá existir. Es demasiado hermoso y, si quisieran construirlo, se vendría abajo antes de la primera puesta de sol. Cualquiera de las malditas cosas con las que los hombres llevamos conviviendo sin problemas desde el día de la creación se pondría de por medio y lo desharía en pedazos.

It's queer how out of touch with truth women are. They live in a world of their own, and there has never been anything like it, and never can be. It is too beautiful altogether, and if they were to set it up it would go to pieces before the first sunset.

We live as we dream - alone

For every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.

he knew very well we were all mortal

I don't like work--no man does--but I like what is in the work--the chance to find yourself. Your own reality--for yourself not for others--what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it really means.

The euro was born with great hopes. Reality has proven otherwise.

una economía que crezca más rápidamente, con una prosperidad compartida en que el tipo de vida al que aspira la mayoría de los estadounidenses no sea ya más un simple castillo en el aire sino una realidad alcanzable.

Esos ataques y el empeño de crear una realidad alternativa han sido siempre una parte constitutiva del fascismo, desde la gran mentira de los Goebbels en adelante.

As the saying goes not every conspiracy is a theory.

The emphasis in meditation is very much on undistracted awareness: not thinking about things, not analyzing, not getting lost in the story, but just seeing the nature of what is happening in the mind. Careful, accurate observation of the moment's reality is the key to the whole process.

Consciousness is not a thing that exists, but an event that occurs.

In meditation practice, we build the energy of awareness until it grows powerful enough to see entirely different levels of reality.

The perception of solidity also comes from observing things from a distance. When we look at an ordinary object like a chair or a table, it appears quite solid. Yet if we put that same object under a powerful microscope, whole new worlds emerge. When we look at trees from a distance, we just see an undifferentiated mass of color. But as we get closer, we can distinguish individual leaves, and even the small distinct parts of the leaves.

together and disappear when the conditions change. None of them