Quotes about Reality

Sometimes Maggie thought she could have been contented with absorbing fancies; if she could have had all Scott's novels and all Byron's poems!—then, perhaps, she might have found happiness enough to dull her sensibility to her actual daily life. And yet they were hardly what she wanted. She could make dream-worlds of her own, but no dream-world would satisfy her now.

Wonder is that possession of the mind that enchants the emotions while never surrendering reason. It is a grasp on reality that does not need constant high points in order to be maintained, nor is it made vulnerable by the low points of life's struggle.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

Death threatens our speech with futility because death is not just a biological event - it is a reality we fear may rob our living of any significance.

Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.

The science of mathematics treats its object as though it were something abstracted mentally, whereas it is not abstract in reality.

this is what we hope for, the objective reality of our future inheritance, not the feeling of hope or expectation in our hearts. So

What do you expect, one is what one is, partly at least.

I am not yet so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.

Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.

Well, sir, if things are real, they're there all the time." "Are they?" said the Professor; and Peter did not quite know what to say.

Space and time are "sensed" not seen. They are created in consciousness which is spaceless and timeless.