Quotes About Reality

my favorite Zen saying," said Dee. "Once you're born, the worst has already happened.

This is a great and terrible world. I never knew there were so many men alive in it.

The world is very lovely, and it's very horrible--and it doesn't care about your life or mine or anything else.

I know now it is children who accept life; grown people cover it up and pretend it is different with drinks.

Every tree and plant in the medouw seemed to be dancing, those with average eyes would see as fixed and still.

If he were alive, she might come to see his flaws...but a dead man is perfect.

There's a certain detachment sensitive people must maintain to endure the harsh realities of this world.

The facts of science are real enough, and so are the techniques that scientists use, and so are the technologies based on them. But the belief system that governs conventional scientific thinking is an act of faith.

The further the distance, the stronger the illusion.

What is emerging in its place is an evolutionary vision of reality at every level: subatomic, atomic, chemical, biological, social, ecological, cultural, mental, economic, astronomical and cosmic.

First, some physicists insist that quantum mechanics cannot be formulated without taking into account the minds of observers. They argue that minds cannot be reduced to physics because physics presupposes the minds of physicists

cosmologists have come to the conclusion that known kinds of matter and energy constitute only about 4 per cent of the universe. The rest consists of dark matter and dark energy. The nature of 96 per cent of physical reality is literally obscure.8

There's love and everybody talks about it, but not all of us come close to it - or, if we do, it's not in the expected way.

It was as if Jed had moved from one dimension to another. His original dimension hadn't reported him missing, and his new dimension didn't acknowledge his presence. Maybe what he'd really done was end up somewhere between the two. Some days he almost felt invisible.

Our ideas do not make the world, the world makes our ideas. Marx is therefore a materialist; Hegel, an idealist.

Hegel claimed that reality was essentially reason and logic – "whatever is rational is real, and whatever is real is rational".

For the last five years, we have been presented with the idea that Barack Obama is superhuman. Barack Obama is unlike any of us or anyone else. And he isn't. In fact, he's much less achieved and much less accomplished than most who have gotten half as far as he has, and I think maybe what we saw was the best.

It's fine to dream, provided we can deal with the reality when we wake up

To the inhabitants of the pond, the pond was the world; and to the inhabitants of the world, the world was but a muddy pond.

The world is only the size of each man's head.

No. Not really, I suppose madness is not seeing things as others see them.

All those happy, pretty, successful people- he hated them because he knew they didn't really exist, and he hated even more the magazine that glorified them and in a way that made them exist, actors, rock musicians, famous writers, politicians. Those aren't people, he fumed, they're photographs.

Russell Edson: The things we took for granted do not take us so.

On the other side of a mirror there's an inverse world, where the insane go sane; where bones climb out of the earth and recede to the first slime of love.