Quotes about Reality

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

It is like employing a small tool on big constructions, if we use human wisdom in the hunt for knowledge of reality.

Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all.

Christ has redeemed our humanity from vanity and our time from illusion.

Long ago she'd learned that facing reality was inevitable. She could skulk about, trying to avoid it or pretending it wasn't there. But in the end, reality always found her. And its finding her seemed a harsher blow than if she'd faced the situation straight on from the very start.

The artist has been kind to me," she said softly, not looking at him. "The artist drew what he saw. What he sees even now," he said. A single tear slipped down her cheek. "I wish this were easier, Jake." "Nothing is easy, Aletta. At least nothing worth having.

The problem with any philosophical consideration is that once you open a door in your mind, you can never close it. Once you learn something, you can never convince your mind that you didn't learn it. If you learn the world is round, you can never fit in with a world that thinks it's flat.

If love is a dream, then marriage is the alarm clock.

We have been poisoned by fairy tales.

Don't wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Love is blind. Marriage is an eye-opener.