Quotes about Reality
But we can't have things perfect in this imperfect world, as Mrs. Lynde says. Mrs. Lynde isn't exactly a comforting person sometimes, but there's no doubt she says a great many very true things.
— LM Montgomery
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.
— Moby
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
— William James
It gives me a deep comforting sense that Things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal.
— Helen Keller
We live in the most probable of all possible worlds.
— Stephen Hawking
Christian Science explains all cause and effect as mental, not physical.
— Mary Baker Eddy
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.
— Aldous Huxley
Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science.
— Barack Obama
Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
— Oscar Wilde
Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
— Oscar Wilde
What seems to be a stone is a drama.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
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.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel