Quotes about Reality
But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: 'we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.' 'How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice. 'You must be,' said the Cat, 'or you wouldn't have come here.
— Lewis Carroll
generally happens when one eats cake; but Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way.
— Lewis Carroll
But, I nearly forgot, you must close your eyes otherwise you won't see anything
— Lewis Carroll
For some of us, our feelings are an idol. If we feel beautiful, we believe we are beautiful. If we feel good, we believe we are good. If we live by our feelings alone, they will lie to us and it will not be long before we are led astray.
— Lisa Bevere
The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be.
— William Hazlitt
There are scientists who will tell you that spirit, because it can't be measured, doesn't exist. Bollocks. It does exist.
— Sam Allardyce
All true things must change and only that which changes remains true.
— Carl Jung
Every one of us is shadowed by an illusory person: a false Self. We are not very good at recognizing illusions, least of all the ones we cherish about ourselves.
— Thomas Merton
Our separation from each other is an optical illusion.
— Albert Einstein
This is criterion by which the Church is to be judged, not by the forms of its doctrine or ritual, but by the reality of the reality of the love which it manifests.
— Bede Griffiths
We are what we pretend to be.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The philosophy of this world may be founded on facts, but its business is run on spiritual impressions and atmospheres.
— GK Chesterton