Quotes about Reality

Many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view.

Time is an illusion-to orators.

To most of us the real life is the life we do not lead.

The thing we fear we bring to pass.

To expect life to be tailored to our specifications is to invite frustration.

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

To wish to act like angels while we are still in this world is nothing but folly.

Truth has no beginning.

Now is all we have. Everything that has ever happened to you, and anything that is ever going to happen to you, is just a thought.

It gives me great strength to know that half the people I meet are below average.

But two and two do equal four. Unless you give some strange, special meaning to equal. You can count it off for yourself: one two three four. If two and two really equalled three then everything would collapse into chaos. We would be in another universe, with other physical laws. In the existing universe two and two equal four. It is a universal rule, independent of us, not man-made at all. Even if you and I were to cease to be, two and two would go on equalling four.

Does it surprise you as much as it does me, this correspondence between things as they are and the pictures we have of them in our minds?