Quotes about Reality

People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it

There is nothing known as Perfect. Its only those imperfections which we choose not to see!!

Concerning matter, we have been all wrong. What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration has been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses. There is no matter.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

The [quantum] theory reminds me a little of the system of delusions of an exceedingly intelligent paranoiac.

Every reminiscence is colored by the way things are today, and therefore by a delusive point of view.

How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects of reality?

reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays....

The trouble with fiction, said John Rivers, is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.

To be enlightened is to be aware, always, of total reality in its immanent otherness - to be aware of it and yet remain in a condition to survive as an animal. Our goal is to discover that we have always been where we ought to be. Unhappily we make the task exceedingly difficult for ourselves.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling falsehood.

What's the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when anthrax bombs are popping all around you?