Quotes about Reality
To call everything that appears illogical, fantasy, fairy tale, or chimera would be practically to admit not understanding nature.
- Marc Chagall
To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The snow in winter, the flowers in spring. There is no deeper reality.
- Marty Rubin
That is why faith, wherever it develops into hope, causes not rest but unrest, not patience but impatience.... Those who hope in Christ can no longer put up with reality as it is.
- Jurgen Moltmann
We aren't going to have peace on Earth until we recognize the basic fact of the interrelated structure of all reality.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is...at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away...
- Virginia Woolf
The following terms all mean one and the same thing: God, goodness, mental health, truth, decency, happiness, freedom, reality, peace, love, sensibleness.
- Vernon Howard
The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing.
- Victor Hugo
Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
- GK Chesterton
Faith and philosophy are air, but events are brass.
- Herman Melville
One's task is not to turn the world upside down but to do what is necessary at the given place and with a due consideration of reality.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer