Quotes about Reality
Be assured that Christianity is something more than forms and creeds and ceremonies: there is life, and power, and reality, in our holy faith.
— George Muller
There is a power in the human mind ... to see things as they are ... but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
— Nadine Gordimer
Things aren't what they used to be and probably never were.
— Will Rogers
I know there isn't no beast—not with claws and all that, I mean—but I know there isn't no fear, either." Piggy paused. "Unless—" Ralph moved restlessly. "Unless what?" "Unless we get frightened of people.
— William Golding
I'll tell you the truth and its up to you to live with it.
— William Goldman
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
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
— William James
Pluralism lets things really exist in the each-form or distributively. Monism thinks that the all-form or collective-unit form is the only form that is rational.
— William James
The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist.
— William James
If God does not exist, our lives are ultimately meaningless, valueless, and purposeless despite how desperately we cling to the illusion to the contrary.
— William Lane Craig
The point is this: if God does not exist, then life is objectively meaningless; but man cannot live consistently and happily knowing that life is meaningless; so in order to be happy he pretends that life has meaning.
— William Lane Craig