Quotes about Reality
I never dwelt on the dark farcical furious real life of this roaring working world, wow.
— Jack Kerouac
I realized either I was crazy or the world was crazy; and I picked on the world. And of course I was right.
— Jack Kerouac
When it is recognized that there is nothing beyond what is seen of the mind itself, the discrimination of being and non-being ceases and, as there is thus no external world as the object of perception, nothing remains but the solitude of Reality.
— Jack Kerouac
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. I stumbled haggardly out of the station; I had no more control.
— Jack Kerouac
I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.
— Parker Palmer
Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable.
— Jerry B. Jenkins
A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Marrying means doing whatever possible to become repulsed of each other
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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.
— Albert Einstein
It is like employing a small tool on big constructions, if we use human wisdom in the hunt for knowledge of reality.
— Gregory of Nazianzus
Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all.
— CS Lewis
Christ has redeemed our humanity from vanity and our time from illusion.
— TF Torrance