Quotes about Reality

Thus inevitably does the universe wear our color, and every object fall successively into the subject itself. The subject exists, the subject enlarges; all things sooner or later fall into place. As I am, so I see; use what language we will, we can never say anything but what we are.

Everything Real Is Self-Existent.

Foolish people ask you, when you speak what they do not wish to hear, How do you know it is the truth, and not an error of your own? We know the truth when we see it, from opinion, as we know when we are awake that we are awake.

For the existing world is not a dream, and cannot with impunity be treated as a dream; neither is it a disease; but it is the ground on which you stand, it is the mother of whom you were born.

When they are real, they are not glass threads or frostwork, but the solidest thing we know.

The first and last lesson of religion is, 'The things that are seen are temporal; the things that are not seen are eternal.' It puts an affront upon nature.

A world in the hand is worth two in the bush.

Treat all people as if they are real, because who knows, perhaps they are.

The things that are seen, are temporal; the things that are unseen, are eternal. It

The shows of day, the dewy morning, the rainbow, mountains, orchards in blossom, stars, moonlight, shadows in still water, and the like, if too eagerly hunted, become shows merely, and mock us with their unreality. Go out of the house to see the moon, and 't is mere tinsel; it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey.

Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.

Fiction is not the opposite of truth—indeed, it is sometimes the most persuasive vehicle for it.