Quotes about Reality

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?

He was a philosopher, if you know what that was.' 'A man who dreams of fewer things than there are in heaven and earth,' said the Savage promptly. 'Quite so…

Was and will make me ill, I take a gram and only am.

That was the chief difference between literature and life. In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is high; in reality, very low.

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.

The fear, as I analyze it in retrospect, was of being overwhelmed, of disintegrating under a pressure of reality greater than a mind, accustomed to living most of the time in a cosy world of symbols, could possibly bear.

Things somehow seem more real and vivid when one can apply somebody else's ready-made phrase about them (...) you bring them out triumphantly, and feel you've clinched the argument with the mere magical sound of them. That's what comes of the higher education.

Unmentioned, what is can become as though it were not.

No holiday is ever anything but a disappointment.

So long as it remains out of touch with the rest of the world, an ideal society can be a viable society.

All our actions must be directed, in the last analysis, to making ourselves passive in relation to the activity and the being of divine Reality. We are, as it were, aeolian harps, endowed with the power either to expose themselves to the wind of the Spirit or to shut themselves away from it.