Quotes about Reality
Death threatens our speech with futility because death is not just a biological event - it is a reality we fear may rob our living of any significance.
- Stanley Hauerwas
Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
- St. Augustine
The science of mathematics treats its object as though it were something abstracted mentally, whereas it is not abstract in reality.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
this is what we hope for, the objective reality of our future inheritance, not the feeling of hope or expectation in our hearts. So
- Sam Storms
What do you expect, one is what one is, partly at least.
- Samuel Beckett
I am not yet so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.
- Samuel Johnson
Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.
- Cicero
Well, sir, if things are real, they're there all the time." "Are they?" said the Professor; and Peter did not quite know what to say.
- CS Lewis
Space and time are "sensed" not seen. They are created in consciousness which is spaceless and timeless.
- Deepak Chopra
The most precious gift that marriage gave me was the constant impact of something very close and intimate, yet all the time unmistakably other, resistant - in a word, real.
- CS Lewis
Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy.
- William Wordsworth
If there ever was a time that nothing existed, then nothing would exist now
- CS Lewis