Quotes about Reality

Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.

It's all very well to read about sorrows and imagine yourself living through them heroically, but it's not so nice when you really come to have them

What is to be will be, and what isn't to be happens sometimes.

I think there are two kinds of TRUE THINGS-- true things that ARE, and true things that ARE NOT, but MIGHT be.

It was sad, tragic—and true! Heaven could not be what Ruby had been used to. There had been nothing in her gay, frivolous life, her shallow ideals and aspirations, to fit her for that great change, or make the life to come seem to her anything but alien and unreal and undesirable.

the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop, and that hurts.

But we can't have things perfect in this imperfect world, as Mrs. Lynde says. Mrs. Lynde isn't exactly a comforting person sometimes, but there's no doubt she says a great many very true things.

Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?

It gives me a deep comforting sense that Things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal.

We live in the most probable of all possible worlds.

Christian Science explains all cause and effect as mental, not physical.

Facts are ventriloquist's dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.