Quotes About Reality

You understand too little of what you see. You see a pretty face and hear a loving voice. But she is more than that, Silas. Much more. She is cold water and lack of breath. She is emptiness and oblivion. She is the very tide, drawing things to her and pulling them below.

Just as you cannot wave your hands and reappear in your simple life before coming here, so you cannot merely clap them to wake up the dead from their troubles.

Turn over that stone" - she pointed to a flint nearby - "and you will find a charlatan who will dazzle you with the favorable conjunction of Mercury and Venus, flatter your future, and sell you colored water for a gold piece. I can't be bothered with it. From me you get the actuality.

But truth travels slowly and gets weaker as it goes. Suitable lies are stronger and run faster.

You are a drab, she told herself, seduced into infatuation by a soldier's tale. Outremer, bravery, crusade, it is illusory romance. Pull yourself together, woman.

The waking have one common world, but the sleeping turn aside each into a world of his own.

No matter where you go, there you are. —BUCKAROO BANZAI

Pessimism is a denial of the reality of God and the power man draws from being connected to it.

Montaigne: "There were many terrible things in my life, but most of them never happened.

human beings cannot distinguish between real dangers and imagined ones.

The truth is that the new conception of raunch culture as a path to liberation rather than oppression is a convenient (and lucrative) fantasy with nothing to back it up. Or, as Susan Brownmiller put it when I asked her what she made of all this, "You think you're being brave, you think you're being sexy, you think you're transcending feminism. But that's bullshit.

I asked her if she'd ever wanted children. She told me, "Everybody doesn't get everything." It sounded depressing to me at the time, a statement of defeat. Now admitting it seems like the obvious and essential work of growing up. Everybody doesn't get everything: as natural and unavoidable as mortality.

There were shadows I saw out of the corner of my eye that looked like problems waiting to become real, but you never know with shadows.

Det begynte altså med medisinskapet hjemme og Arzfelds Ritalin – og fortsatte med de samme og andre jeg fikk tak i – piller for oppstemthet, sovepiller, «selskapspiller», neddempende, maxiton, sjøsyketabletter og barbitus – samme faen – begge veier – alt gikk ned. Jeg ville være alle andre steder enn i virkeligheten – den ble for sterk.

Love... pain... they're all just fragments of my dream!

We can also see how desire sees just the attractive qualities of the breath we imagine we want, divorced from the reality of our breathing - which is sometimes tight and sometimes smooth, and always is changing. This examination can give us exceptional insight as to how desire operates in our lives - how it adheres to its object, how it makes its object more attractive than it really is and makes us blind to unattractive aspects. We can examine how insatiable it is.

you." "Bullshit.

Wirklichkeit besteht aus miteinander geteilten Geschichten.

Philosophy is the science which considers truth.

The broadest usage of the term is for a formal representation or specification of what is common sense or objective reality to a human being.

But tales like this must not be taken as truth. You must remind yourself that it is hard to tell where truth ends and a lie begins. So listen all you like, but disbelieve all you hear... You are in the city of lies.

The vision one holds of one's life is so limited, reduced in scope to a moment, so that each person can make choices only within that narrowed reality.

theories have a part to play so long as what they indicate agrees with what is seen

It was like a murder trial in which the district attorney, asked who has been killed, says he doesn't know; and asked about the corpse, says there is no corpse. Imagine killing a figment of someone's imagination.