Quotes about Reality

We are all more than our experiences And less than our dreams ~ from I Am Glass

The truth of the matter is this: false ideas about truth lead to false ideas about life.

Any denial of truth presupposes truth, so the existence of truth is inescapable.

in order to find truth, one must be ready to give up those subjective preferences in favor of objective facts. And facts are best discovered through logic, evidence, and science.

we humans have a fatal tendency to try to adjust the truth to fit our desires rather than adjusting our desires to fit the truth. But

Truth is unchanging even though our beliefs about truth change. (When we began to believe the earth was round instead of flat, the truth about the earth didn't change, only our belief about the earth changed.)

contrary beliefs are possible, but contrary truths are not possible. We can believe everything is true, but we cannot make everything true.

We can know what we know about God because thought applies to reality. In that context, knowledge is possible. If thought does not apply to reality, then we can know nothing. Logic is a necessary presupposition of all thought. Without logic (the laws of thought), we can't even think

All truths are absolute truths.

But truth is not a subjective matter of taste—it's an objective matter of fact.

Laying a good foundation is important, but the fact remains that we don't live in the foundation; we live in the house built upon it. In that house where daily life is lived, things are not always as they should be.

In fact, we humans have a fatal tendency to try to adjust the truth to fit our desires rather than adjusting our desires to fit the truth.