Quotes about Reality

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?

We partake of the ideal but we also make poo.

Isn't it true that you start your life a sweet child believing in everything under your father's roof? Then comes the day of the Laodiceans, when you know you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked, and with the visage of a gruesome grieving ghost you go shuddering through nightmare life.

The truth of the matter is, you die, all you do is die, and yet you live, yes you live, and that's no Harvard lie.

Your mind makes out the orange by seeing it, hearing it, touching it, smelling it, tasting it and thinking about it but without this mind, you call it, the orange would not be seen or heard or smelled or tasted or even mentally noticed, it's actually, that orange, depending on your mind to exist! Don't you see that? By itself it's a no-thing, it's really mental, it's seen only of your mind. In other words it's empty and awake.