Quotes about Reality

With no fact as a referent, what is normative is purely a matter of preference.

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

The literal resurrection of every soul who has lived and died on earth is a certainty, and surely one should make careful preparation for this event. A glorious resurrection should be the goal of every man and woman, for resurrection will be a reality.

What lies between these two ends, these 'last things', is the world, our world, the comprehensible world which has been given us.

Creation is grace: a statement at which we should like best to pause in reverence, fear and gratitude. God does not grudge the existence of the reality distinct from Himself; He does not grudge it its own reality, nature and freedom.

Present sufferings seem far greater to men than those they merely dread.

The mirror sees the man as beautiful, the mirror loves the man; another mirror sees the man as frightful and hates him; and it is always the same being who produces the impressions.

Men who cannot deceive others are very often successful at deceiving themselves.

Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.

Man - a figment of God's imagination.

The man who lives in division is living in death. He cannot find himself because he is lost; he has ceased to be a reality. The person he believes himself to be is a bad dream.

What disturbs and alarms man are not the things, but his opinions and fancies about the things.