Quotes About Reality

When the mind is clear and calm, the images it reflects are real and the knowledge it gathers is true. When the mind is agitated and confused, it's like throwing a stone into a still pond, or holding a camera with a shaky hand: the images it reflects are distorted and do not accord with reality.

You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts.

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own set of facts.

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts

La vita non è un romanzo, lo so... lo so. Ma solo lo spirito del romanzo può renderla vivibile.

La prigione è il presente. Il presente è ciò da cui cercavano di fuggire quelli che sono in prigione.

The plants that produce visions can function- for those of us who have inherited the New World Order of barren materialism, cut off from our spiritual heritage by a spiteful culture that gives us nothing but ashes- as the talismans of recognition that awaken our minds to reality.

To me, the more I thought about it, the more the dream seemed, intuitively, real—a victory over a residue of her psyche by my unconscious self.

That's not the kind of thing crazy people do, her muddled thoughts insisted. That's the kind of thing crazy people see.

Si no conocemos los procesos que nos llevan a creer ciertas cosas, no seremos capaces de evitar creer ciertas cosas que en realidad son ficciones sin fundamento. Son cosas que aprisionan la mente como una soporífera y pesada tela de araña, y no le permiten cobrar altura. Son cosas que si usted las cree pueden llevarlo a la muerte prematura, y no querrá usted morir antes de tiempo, ¿verdad?

All news is an exaggeration of life.

You see, Allon, in the art world, perception is reality. - General Cesare Ferrari

For most of us, space is the concrete thing that time is like.3 Studies reveal that people all over the world imagine time as though it were a spatial dimension, which is why we say that the past is behind us and the future is in front of us, that we are moving toward our senescence and looking back on our infancy, and that days pass

Officially, 5 percent of southern slaves worked in industrial occupations. But the statistic understates the reality. It does not include artisans who worked on plantations making articles for use on that plantation, and thus ignores countless enslaved blacksmiths, masons, cabinetmakers, cordwainers, saddle-makers, plow-wrights, and other craftsmen.

The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.

There is nothing so powerful as truth - and often nothing so strange.

Our sense of being a conscious agent who does things comes at a cost of being technically wrong all the time.

The World Ain't No Day-care Center.

Be careful before you believe someone in this world because we are living in such a world where there is artificial lemon juice use for welcome drink and real lemons use for finger bowls.

However, there is nothing left of the American dream. Social mobility in the US today is far lower than it is in Europe. Anyone born into a poor family in the US is very likely to remain poor, and can only watch the story of going from rags to riches in movie theaters or on Netflix.

over the realities.

these changes to his way of experiencing reality were so strange that he didn't say anything about them at first. All he knew was he was experiencing highly-structured geometric hallucinations on regular basis, and while he knew what he saw was real, he wasn't sure anyone would believe him if he tried to explain it.." pp21

Una cosa es desear la paz y otra muy distinta fingir que la guerra misma no existe" D

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