Quotes About Reality

Lord, what romantical fools men were, to overpass the known and good in order to strain and stretch after the mysterious merely unknown. Were dreams simply better than reality? Had fancy always more style?

The melody of her life is played just as it was written. Mary was thought, conceived, and planned as the equal sign between ideal and history, thought and reality, hope and realization.

Abstraction is the condition of the science of metaphysics, but in no way is its content.

In a like manner, as soon as we know the meaning of being and the meaning of nonbeing, we know that a thing cannot be and not be at one and the same time, and under the same formal consideration.

The 'fullness of reality' in the second sense of the term is perceived by a combination of both intellect and sense, the senses knowing the particular characteristics, the intellect knowing the nature.

The sciences need philosophy; philosophy, in turn, needs the sciences. On both sides, certain naive minds, too confident in their own forces and satisfied with ideas entirely too superficial, believed in the universal value of a single method. On both side a severe critique must lead each method back to its just limits, and teach them to ask aid of the other methods and manners of approach which, by their convergence, will permit the mind to embrace the diverse aspects of reality

The first part, or the Æsthetics, which has nothing in common with art, disengages the a priori forms of sensible knowledge, namely, the forms of space and time, which furnish mathematics with their object. Æsthetics thus divorced mathematics from reality, for it makes the condition of mathematics not the real, but a mental form of space and time.

Gaston Milhaud, like many of his contemporaries, sought to overthrow empirical positivism by insisting on the fundamental reality of the mind, but mind conceived in the Kantian sense. The knowledge of nature is symbolic, and there is no necessary connection between the phenomena and our fictions.

The familiar would of sense experience is not entirely objectively real, but is to some extent a product of the scientists' reasoning.

Hearing is the motion of molecules; sound is a wave in the atmosphere; solidity is the characteristic of spatial juxtaposition of atoms; smell is something given off by a body, rather than something belonging to a body.

Do mathematics have a relation to reality or are they only a mathematical symbol?

The porter who took my bag said to me: "Everybody knows you; it must be wonderful to be a bishop." And I said to him: "Suppose you had four hundred children and ten were very sick and five were dying. Would you not worry and stay awake at night? Well, that is my family. It is not as wonderful as you think.

It is easy to understand why so many minds of this century flocked to the authoritarianism of the Nazi, the Fascist, or the Communist in their desperation for an ordering principle. Having no true picture of reality, butrecognizing the need of someguiding principle outside their confused, bewildered, and frustrated minds, they would throw themselves into the false ordering of dictatorship.

The basis of all disappointment is the disproportion between what we imagine or wish for to make us happy and what we actually possess.

La prétendue baguette des fées était moins puissante que ne l'est aujourd'hui la science des hommes.

Wow . . . she's gotten older"—a realization that somehow never includes me, as if I am for some reason immune to aging. It isn't until I pass by a mirror and catch sight of my own composting carcass that I'm forced to fess up to reality. Hate when that happens.

Thinking is, indeed, essentially the negation of that which is before us.

The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the future until reality taught them that tomorrow was not what they had dreamed, and they discovered nostalgia.

My most important problem was destroying the lines of demarcation that separate what seems real from what seems fantastic.

bagiku, tampak bahwa, bagaikan tanaman yg hidup, aku merupakan gambaran suatu dunia yang ideal; bahwa aku bukan hanya terdiri dari apa yang kuingin, apa yang kupikir -- aku juga adalah apa yang tidak aku cintai; apa yang TIDAK aku inginkan untuk menjelma

My most important problem was to destroy the line of demarcation that separates what seems real from what seems fantastic. Because in the world that I was trying to evoke, that barrier didn't exist.

a hitetlenség erÅ'sebb a hitnél, mert az érzékekre támaszkodik.

We must, therefore, break away once and for all from the metaphors which depict consciousness as a luminous circle round which there is nothing, to its own eyes, but darkness. On the contrary, the shadow is at the centre.

March 7th It is a serious error, if I am not mistaken, to treat time as a mode of apprehension. For one is then forced to consider it also as the order according to which the subject apprehends himself, and he can only do this by breaking away from himself, as it were, and mentally severing the fundamental engagement which makes him what he is.