Quotes about Reality
Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science.
— Barack Obama
Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
— Oscar Wilde
Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
— Oscar Wilde
What seems to be a stone is a drama.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Modern man fell into the trap of believing that everything can be explained, that reality is a simple affair which has only to be organized in order to be mastered.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
To most of us a person, a human being, seems to be a maximum of being, the ceiling of reality; we think that to personify is to glorify. Yet do not some of us realize at times that a person is no superlative, that to personify the spiritually real is to belittle it? A personification may be both a distortion and a depreciation.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
I am nothing, truth is everything.
— Abraham Lincoln
Facts speak plainer than words
— Aesop
Our understanding of love has been hijacked and beguiled by its first distractingly moving moments. We have allowed our love stories to end way too early. We seem to know far too much about how love starts, and recklessly little about how it might continue.
— Alain de Botton
The truth, in so far as a human being is able to attain such a thing, lies in a statement which it seems impossible to disprove. It is by finding out what something is not that one comes closest to understanding what it is.
— Alain de Botton
If we are not careful, then, the culture rather than God actually gets to define reality.
— Alan Hirsch
For the most part, the people who are currently in Satan's kingdom don't realize where they really are, because it is a kingdom of darkness, and they can't "see" it. In contrast, the kingdom of God is the kingdom of light; therefore, those who are in His kingdom know where they are.
— Derek Prince