Quotes about Reality
If, then, 'substance' is not attributed to anything, but other things are attributed to it, how does 'substance' mean what is rather than what is not?
- Aristotle
It is, then, clearly impossible for Being to be one in this sense.
- Aristotle
whenever a reasonable explanation comes to sight as to why a thing appears to be but is not true, this makes for greater trust in the truth.
- Aristotle
But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger.
- Arthur C. Clarke
But there was no substitute for reality; one should beware of imitations.
- Arthur C. Clarke
We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
- Winston Churchill
Once you are born in this world you're old enough to die.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Every religion, every philosophy, every individual outlook on life tells a story of reality.
- Greg Koukl
Having reached the term of his natural life"; Mwould it not be truer to say, Having reached the term of his unnatural life?
- Henry David Thoreau
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
- Mark Twain
Hence vain deluding Joys,The brood of Folly without father bred!
- John Milton