Quotes About Reality

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

What is the truth, but a lie agreed upon.

The real world is much smaller than the imaginary

There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.

Truths are illlusions which we have forgotten are illusions.

Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.

There is no such thing as moral phenomena, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena

What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seem to a people to be fixed, canonical, and binding. Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions — they are metaphors that have become worn out and have been drained of sensuous force.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.... Through words and concepts we shall never reach beyond the wall off relations, to some sort of fabulous primal ground of things.

No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes.

In reality, hope is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs man's torments.

Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality of existence; he observes closely, and he enjoys his observation: for it is out of these images that he interprets life, out of these processes that he trains himself for life.

it is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified .

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

The majority of men prefer delusion to truth. It soothes. It is easy to grasp.

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

the lie is a condition of life.

The word Christianity is already a misunderstanding; in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the cross.

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

Reality is a flux, an endless becoming that is beyond words and language - all language is metaphor, useful to us but ultimately detached from reality.

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

It is not doubt but certainty that drives you mad...

there is no being behind doing, effecting, becoming; the doer is merely a fiction added to the deed—the deed is everything.