Quotes about Reality

What happens when people are raised on a steady diet of "You are great, you can do anything, you deserve it, you are the best, you can get what you want"? Sooner or later they find that they are not great, they can't do everything, they are not the best, and they can't control it all. Depression and denial are the only two options left.

Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality.

Space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind union of the two will preserve an independent reality

My religiosity consists in a humble admiration of the infinitely superior spirit that reveals itself in the little that we, with our weak and transitory understanding, can comprehend of reality. Morality is of the highest importance — but for us, not for God.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Men are not disturbed by things, but by the views which they take of them.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

There is no fixed physical reality, no single perception of the world, just numerous ways of interpreting world views as dictated by one's nervous system and the specific environment of our planetary existence.

Spiritual people don't float around all day on clouds of glory; they live in the real world and deal with real issues in real ways.

I grew up knowing only war, so for me, it was the way things were. It wasn't pleasant by any means.

As a public poet, people often don't see the reality of my life.