Quotes About Reality

He who does not lie does not know what truth is.

But the thought is one thing, the deed is another, and another yet is the image of the deed. The wheel of causality does not roll between them.

It is disgraceful for a philosopher to say: the good and the beautiful are one; if he adds 'also the true', one ought to beat him. Truth is ugly. We possess art lest we perish of the truth.

all life rests on appearance, art, illusion, optics, the need for perspective and for error...

There are many kinds of eyes. Even the sphinx has eyes - and consequently there are many kinds of 'truths,' and consequently there is no truth

Life has not been devised by morality: it wants deception, it lives on deception.

Everything straight lies,' murmured the dwarf disdainfully. 'All truth is crooked, time itself is a circle.

Life no argument. - We have arranged for ourselves a world in which we can live - by positing bodies, lines, planes, causes and effects, motion and rest, form and content; without these articles of faith nobody now could endure life. But that does not prove them. Life is no argument. The conditions of life might include error.

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

Knowledge kills action, for action requires a state of being in which we are covered with the veil of illusion.

Is the world really beautified by the fact that man thinks it beautiful? He has humanized it, that is all.

A time came when one rubbed one's eyes; one is still rubbing them today.

We have to cease to think, if we refuse to do it in the prison house of language; for we cannot reach further than the doubt which asks whether the limit we see is really a limit.

What? A great man? I always see merely the play-actor of his own ideal.

There is no pre-established harmony between the furtherance of truth and the well-being of mankind.

good men never tell the truth. The good taught you false shores and false securities: you were born and kept in the lies of the good. Everything has been distorted and twisted down to its very bottom through the good

Terribleness is part of greatness: let us not deceive ourselves.

Good and evil, and joy and pain, and I and you- colored vapors did they seem to me before creative eyes. The creator wished to look away from himself,- and so he created the world.

The true world -- we have abolished. What world has remained? The apparent one perhaps? But no! With the true world we have also abolished the apparent one.

It is true, there could be a metaphysical world; the absolute possibility of it is hardly to be disputed. We behold all things through the human head and cannot cut off this head; while the question nonetheless remains what of the world would still be there if one had cut it off.

Are you genuine? or just a play-actor? A representative? it the actual thing represented?-Ultimately you are even just an imitation play-actor....Second question for the conscience.

Whoever does not believe himself always lies.

Dreams. ? We have no dreams at all or interesting ones. We should learn to be awake the same way ? not at all or in an interesting manner.

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.