Quotes About Reality

não direi ótimo, mas nem tudo é ótimo neste mundo.

Ao cabo, era amigo, não direi ótimo, mas nem tudo é ótimo neste mundo.

em tempo de guerra, mentira como terra.

Enquanto os meses passam, faze de conta que estás no teatro, entre um ato e outro, conversando. Lá dentro preparam a cena, e os artistas mudam de roupa. Não vás lá; deixa que a dama, no camarim, ria com os seus amigos o que chorou cá fora com os espectadores. Quanto ao jardim que se está fazendo, não te exponhas a vê-lo pelas costas; é pura lona velha sem pintura, porque só a parte do espectador é que tem verdes flores

Nada tenho que ver com a ciência; mas, se tantos homens em quem supomos são reclusos por dementes, quem nos afirma que o alienado não é o alienista?

Três meses, três minutos! Eis toda a verdade da vida. Se os pusessem sobre uma grelha, como São Lourenço, cinco minutos eram cinco meses. E ainda se fala em tempo! Há lá tempo! O tempo está nas nossas impressões. Há meses para os infelizes e minutos para os venturosos!

porque o adjetivo é a alma do idioma, a sua porção idealista e metafísica. O substantivo é a realidade nua e crua, é o naturalismo do vocabulário.

Tio Cosme respondeu com um Ora! que, traduzido em vulgar, queria dizer: São imaginações do José Dias; os pequenos divertem-se, eu divirto-me; onde está o gamão?

Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are.

Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel. Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are.

Falsehood flies," observed Jonathan Swift, "and the truth comes limping after it.

Truth is what is true, and it's not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Truth does not contradict or deny facts, but it goes through and beyond facts. This is something that it is very difficult for some people to understand. Truth can be dangerous.

We do not know what things look like. We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing,this seeing. -Aunt Beast

I'm apt to get drunk on words...Ontology: the word about the essence of things; the word about being.

We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things that are not seen are eternal.

Meg, don't you think you'd make a better adjustment to life if you faced facts? I do face facts, Meg said. They're lots easier to face than people, I can tell you.

We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things which are not seen are eternal.

It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the hem of truth.

For the things that are seen are temporal, but things that are unseen are eternal.

We do not know what things look like, as you say, the beast said. We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing, this seeing.

But we know that just because we want something does not mean that we will get what we want

Probably the worst thing that has happened to our understanding of reality has been the acceptance of ourselves as consumers.

For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things which are not seen are eternal.

Today we live in a society that seems to be less and less concerned with reality. We drink instant coffee and reconstituted orange juice. We buy our vegetables on cardboard trays covered with plastic. But perhaps the most dehumanizing thing of all is that we have allowed the media to call us consumers--ugly. No! I don't want to be a consumer. Anger consumes. Forest fires consume. Cancer consumes.