Quotes About Reality

As I write this it sounds rather negative and hard but I do not mean it to be so. Happiness grounded in reality is far deeper than that built upon fantasy, and suffering teaches one that happiness can catch a person unawares in the midst of deprivation and desolation. There is a certain stripping away of the externals which makes one more sensitive to joy as well as to sorrow.

It is much more difficult to deal with the truth about your life when you have no idea that you have feet of clay and it suddenly begins to rain.

One consequence of the pursuit of an expansive power imaginary is the blurring of the lines separating reality from fancy and truth telling from self-deception and lying. In its imaginary, power is not so much justified as sanctified, excused by the lofty ends it proclaims, ends that commonly are antithetical to the power legitimated by the constitutional imaginary.

Lying is more than deception; the liar wants the unreal to be accepted as actuality, so he sets about to establish as true what is not actually the case, not really real. A lie by a public authority is meant to be accepted by the public as an "official" truth concerning the "real world." At bottom, lying is the expression of a will to power. My power is increased if you accept "a picture of the world which is a product of my will.

Plato's justification of elite rule is set out in his famous Allegory of the Cave.11 It contrasts the unreality of the images by which the Many live and the true reality that only the Few can approximate.

The vast majority of mankind remain imprisoned in the cave and incapable of grasping the true nature of things. Their best hope is to accept the power of those versed in the true philosophy. Plato darkly concludes: by nature the masses prefer an illusory reality, and so they may turn on the philosopher, making him a martyr to the truth. Thus the masses fear the truth, and their instinct is to cling to the unreal.12

The perception is always more important than the truth.

Much of life, he said to me, depends on our being ignorant of reality. If we understood reality, we would never go on.

Si una cosa he aprendido, sin duda, es que la vida no es un cuento.

the child's life had allowed few if any illusions, and she already had an adult awareness that planning and happening were quite different things.

If it's fiction, then it better be true.

Thing is, I don't believe in ghosts. But I see them all the time.

I ain't interested in the truth. I'm interested in the way things should be.

Sometimes it's called passing out and sometimes it's just pretending to be asleep

Nothing ever really happens, you know. Life is infinitesimal and incremental and inconsequential.

You're always making up stuff from the past," she said. "And the stuff you imagine is always better than the stuff that actually happened.

What's real? I ain't interested in what's real. I'm interested in how things should be.

That word means 'earth-dream'. And, depending on how you use it, it means we, the people, are dreaming the earth into being. And it also means the earth is dreaming us, the people, into being. We are dreaming each other. And making each other real. And it means other things, too, that I don't understand. That I might never understand. But I am going to keep learning.

He says the earth is an oval marble that nobody can win. He says the sky is not blue and the grass is not green. He says everything is a matter of perception.

Last night I dreamed about television. I woke up crying.

there are times when the last thing you want to hear is the truth.

But epics are rarely honest, and honesty should never be epic.

And trust me, there are times when the last thing you want to hear is the truth.

U?ng r??u s? Ä'óng l?i t?m nhìn, kh? n?ng nghe và c?m xúc c?a bà, bà v?n hay nói v?y. T?i sao bà l?i mu?n s?ng ? trên ??i này n?u không th? ch?m vào th? giá»›i b?ng t?t c? các giác quan còn nguyên v?n c?a bà?.