Quotes about Reality
Whether you know the shape of a pebble or the structure of a solar system, the anxioms remain the same: that it exists and that you know it.
— Ayn Rand
Life is too deep for words, so don't try to describe it, just live it.
— CS Lewis
The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.
— Soren Kierkegaard
You've got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.
— Joseph Campbell
One was about forty: a period of mental vigour at which men seldom cherish the delusion of being married for love by girls:
— Emily Bronte
She may be beautiful, but she's certainly no angel.
— Emily Bronte
So when someone assents to a false proposition, be sure that they did not want to give their assent, since, as Plato says, 'Every soul is deprived of the truth against its will.'47 [5] They simply mistook for true something false.
— Epictetus
Things ain't what they used to be and never were.
— Will Rogers
A daydream is an evasion.
— Thomas Merton
I ended up with my life slanted toward television, and I just accept that. I think you play the hand the way it's dealt, that's all.
— Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.
You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.
— John Keats
An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.
— George Bernard Shaw