Quotes about Reality

Biologically we're all the same. We all get sad, we all get happy, and we all die. Anyone who pretends that that's not the case is either a sociopath or utterly delusional.

Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?

It gives me a deep comforting sense that Things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal.

We live in the most probable of all possible worlds.

Christian Science explains all cause and effect as mental, not physical.

Facts are ventriloquist's dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.

Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science.

Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

What seems to be a stone is a drama.

Modern man fell into the trap of believing that everything can be explained, that reality is a simple affair which has only to be organized in order to be mastered.

To most of us a person, a human being, seems to be a maximum of being, the ceiling of reality; we think that to personify is to glorify. Yet do not some of us realize at times that a person is no superlative, that to personify the spiritually real is to belittle it? A personification may be both a distortion and a depreciation.