Top 100 Philosophy Reality Quotes
#1. Without time," the angel said, "you have only the bottomless, shapeless mire of eternity."
"FYI, philosophy bores me."
"Not philosophy. Reality. Time is what gives life significance.
J.R. Ward
#2. Regardless of what you believe in or conceive of as the functionality of Reality, the Oneness of you with all you experience in your life is an absolute
Thomas Daniel Nehrer
#4. It is the mythical, the romantic seduction of the pseudoknowledge, i.e. the folkore - both popular and scientific - that propagates quickly and easily through society, hiding and diminishing the powerful reality of what the new ideas and technologies can offer to humanity.
Manuel Toharia-Cortes
#5. Even though it is common knowledge in our field of Neuroscience, I take immense pleasure every time I realize that our perception of the whole universe emerges from the activity of the little specks of jelly inside our skull.
Abhijit Naskar
#6. We youths say "like" all the time because we mistrust reality.
James S. Kunen
#7. The strange paradox of science is that it does not explain reality, it explains our fantasy. It is a beautiful thing.
Laren Grey Umphlett
#8. There is no absolute reality. Imagination creates reality.
Debasish Mridha
#9. Everything is energy and that's all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy. This is physics.
Darryl Anka
#10. Reality is infinitely diverse. It resists classification, inward life. Peculiar to us ... not simply the official existence.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#11. Forced to recognize our inhumanity, our reason coexists with our insanity. And though we choose between reality and madness, it's either sadness or euphoria.
Billy Joel
#12. Ever since Kant divorced reason from reality, his intellectual descendants have been diligently widening the breach.
Ayn Rand
#13. Life is not about reality. It is about how you perceive it.
Debasish Mridha
#15. All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. (Edmund Burke)
Zack Love
#16. I live always in my dream,
so reality is my dream and dream is my reality.
Debasish Mridha
#17. If you want to treat your book as a child, the finished book should be an adult, capable to stand on its own legs and able to weather the thunder. Not a baby that still needs to be defended.
Martyn V. Halm
#18. He is too presumptuous about the inanities of appearances, poor realities gone for a toss.
Aporva Kala
#19. Look. If I touch you with this hand, I can remember touching you, but I can't prove I ever did. If reality is nothing more than what is in our mind ... then what is the difference between this world and a dream?
Kaori Ozaki
#20. It is within science itself, and not in some prior philosophy, that reality is to be identified and described.
Willard Van Orman Quine
#22. To change the reality, change the perception but not the reality.
Debasish Mridha
#23. Being and not being are not two different realities, but two different aspects of the same reality.
Raheel Farooq
#24. In reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it's all connected to the source of the river is connected to the mouth and the ocean.
Alan W. Watts
#25. If proof were the standard of truth, fallacies would constitute the ultimate reality.
Raheel Farooq
#26. Is it not better to live in dreams and realize it than to live in reality and forget to dream?
Debasish Mridha
#27. Writing about personal thoughts and observations, subjective feelings and objective reality is a gateway experience that intensifies a person's level of consciousness. Every degree of increased consciousness can lead to increased knowledge of the world and self-understanding.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#28. Consciousness is a mystery that faces the mystery of potential and transforms it into actuality. We do that with every choice we make. Our choices determine the destiny of the world. By making a choice, you alter the structure of reality
Jordan Petersen
#29. Liberty opens the door to possibility. Freedom gives us a chance to make that possibility a reality.
Debasish Mridha
#30. Your dreams become your reality if you have the courage to act on them.
Debasish Mridha
#31. Mind is not a product of brain rather an integral part of the soul, our eternal being. Those who understand this truth can think beyond the material reality and move to higher states of consciousness.
Thomas Vazhakunnathu
#32. While you're governing the colony and I'm writing political philosophy, They'll never guess that in the darkness of night we sneak into each other's room and play checkers and have pillow fights.
Orson Scott Card
#33. If you know something is an illusion, why pretend it is reality?
Lionel Suggs
#34. Future belongs to those who live with hopes and dreams, act on those dreams and hopes until those are a reality.
Debasish Mridha
#35. Happiness is not found in serenity, tranquility or surrealism. It is found in harmony of thoughts, actions, and reality.
Debasish Mridha
#37. Have faith in 'What Is'. You will get your due, good or not so good, to your liking or not, but in time, as it is meant to be.
Fakeer Ishavardas
#38. The future is a possibility; the present moment is the reality.
Debasish Mridha
#40. Why does it seem easier for us to accept reality when it is within the confinement of the animal kingdom yet so hard for us to face it in our?
Aysha Taryam
#41. An odd thing about perception is that when we identify some new thing with one or more of our five senses, it is not really, immutably real
it is a passing will o' the wisp, an artifact of the senses and the translations of the brain until we get used to it and we give it a home in our hearts
Nigel Hey
#42. There is power in confronting your fears. In knowing what it is you fear above all, you can prevent it from becoming your reality. There are always choices.
Kelseyleigh Reber
#43. Obsoletes and absolutes are the stock in trade of religions that place their faith in an 'unchanging' god while faced with the reality of an ever-changing world.
Stifyn Emrys
#44. The range of our knowledge of reality is limited by our pre-existing beliefs, assumptions, and expectations
Cynthia Sue Larson
#45. Tantric Buddhism means that we become mature adults and we learn the reality of chaos theory.
Frederick Lenz
#46. Most mistakes in philosophy and logic occur because the human mind is apt to take the symbol for the reality.
Albert Einstein
#47. Ultimately there are only two important epistemological questions in philosophy: What is reality? What is man? And the answer can be collapsed into one: The reality is that man is terribly lonely.
Ben Mijuskovic
#48. One of the strengths of Labor Zionism had always been its strong pragmatic outlook, its philosophy that a new reality can be built only by careful planning and then constructing things brick by brick, acre after acre. It
Thomas L. Friedman
#49. Books are the reality you get to choose; life is the reality you hide from inside a book.
A.M. Hudson
#50. Dreams are reality for the subconscious mind, but wisdom is the perception of knowledge. Wisdom is the internalization of knowledge.
Debasish Mridha
#51. Who are you? No really. Way, way down deep. Who are you?
Doug Dillon
#53. On the brink of sleep I have a gloomy thought: that saving yourself is only pushing yourself even deeper into the trap rather than getting out. Dying is the only way out.
Erri De Luca
#54. Three things are needed
For humanity to co-exist:
Truth, peace and basic needs.
Everything else -
Is irrelevant.
Suzy Kassem
#55. Even in expecting, one leaps away from the possible and gets a footing in the real. It is for its reality that what is expected is expected. By the very nature of expecting, the possible is drawn into the real, arising from it and returning to it.
Martin Heidegger
#57. The blessings of matrimony, like those of poverty, belong rather to philosophy than reality.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
#58. The pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Parmenides taught that the only things that are real are things which never change ... and the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Heraclitus taught that everything changes. If you superimpose their two views, you get this result: Nothing is real.
Philip K. Dick
#59. The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.
Karl Jaspers
#60. The world is real; philosophy is the illusion.
Marty Rubin
#61. It's an already inside outside,
The philosophers say it's the soul
But it's not the soul: it's the animal or the man itself
In its way of existing.
Alberto Caeiro
#62. A political philosophy (often called "political science" by practitioners who are not averse from verbal trickery) must deal with contemporary realities. If it does not, if it is charged with "ideals," it is merely a variety of romantic fiction, although it may not be recognized as such.
Revilo P. Oliver
#63. You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
Malcolm X
#64. I suppose the artists invented the firm breasts they put on women, and that in reality all women had flabby ones.
Jean Cocteau
#65. To irrational principles, one cannot be loyal. Ideas that are not derived from reality cannot be consistently practiced in reality.
as quoted by Leonard Peikoff in Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand
#66. Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical.
Rupert Sheldrake
#67. There is no reality except in action. Man is nothing else than his plan; he exists only to the extent that he fulfills himself; he is therefore nothing else than the ensemble of his acts, nothing else than his life.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#68. In our dreams and imagination we should live in a fantasy world to create a new reality.
Debasish Mridha
#69. The pursuit of truth is just a polite name for the intellectual's favorite pastime of substituting simple and therefore false abstractions for the living complexities of reality.
Aldous Huxley
#70. One of the biggest challenge in life is to see things for what they are instead of what you want them to be.
Saahil Prem
#72. It must be obvious that the Reality we all encounter only works one way, and it functions that way regardless of what the experiencer believes.
Thomas Daniel Nehrer
#73. Our individual reality is borne out of our interpretations. Interpretations come from our experiences.
L.R.W. Lee
#74. So if no theory of philosophy or the sciences can avoid including or presupposing a view of the nature of reality, then no theory can avoid including or presupposing some per se divinity belief.
Roy A. Clouser
#76. Our life is a dream, so dreams are more real than perceived reality.
Debasish Mridha
#77. Besides our eyes, skin and the other senses through which we receive the shadows of the exterior reality, we have a 'mental eye' (intelligence) with which we can perceive reality as it is.
Jesus Zamora Bonilla
#78. The final lesson is that 'reality' is always the way to go and that acceptance is the only way to get there.
Oli Anderson
#80. Within the immense ocean of galaxies and stars we are in a remote corner; amidst the infinite arabesques of forms which constitute reality we are merely a flourish among innumerably many such flourishes.
Carlo Rovelli
#81. The Vedic viewpoint presents a type of linguistic realism in which reality is the 'text' which is being processed by the observer. Reality can also be modified by adding text to it similar to how a programmer programs a computer by inputting a computer program.
Ashish Dalela
#82. To change reality, change your thoughts and perceptions.
Debasish Mridha
#83. I do not judge the individual based on their belief. If I were to, then I would, undoubtedly, be no better than the (religious) system that I frown upon.
Travis Culliton
#84. Freedom" -- we repeated to ourselves, and yet we could not grasp it. We had said this word so often during all the years we dreamed about it, that it had lost its meaning. Its reality did not penetrate into our consciousness; we could not grasp the fact that freedom was ours.
Viktor E. Frankl
#85. The religious and scholarly alike arrive at conclusions as to Jesus' nature based on the world-view they hold, the belief structure that shapes their interpretation. Inaccurate views of the function of reality can only lead to erroneous conclusions.
Thomas Daniel Nehrer
#87. In our dreams every man and woman are amazingly perfect, but in reality they have imperfections, so accept it without judgement.
Debasish Mridha
#88. In reality, what we call spirit is our universal consciousness.
Debasish Mridha
#89. If you think life is magical or life is hard, either way you are right. Your thoughts are the source of reality.
Debasish Mridha
#90. Never thought reality could get better than one's dreams. Thanks to a women though, one would rather stay awake becaues one's dreams aint remotely close to being as good as his reality.
Morena Baloyi
#91. Reality shifts occur when we are in a dreamy state of energized awareness in which we are clear about what we prefer
Cynthia Sue Larson
#92. The spirit of Plato dies hard. We have been unable to escape the philosophical tradition that what we can see and measure in the world is merely the superficial and imperfect representation of an underlying reality.
Stephen Jay Gould
#95. The concept of a Miracle, that is, an event that takes place somehow beyond the scope of functional Reality, is absurd. . . There cannot be a true miracle. There can only be events that appear miraculous when you don't really understand How Life Works.
Thomas Daniel Nehrer
#96. Even the caged bird flys out when someone opens the door for it
Andrea L'Artiste
#97. Change your perspective; the reality changes.
Pokemon
#98. Spoon boy: Do not try and bend the spoon - that's impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth.
Neo: What truth?
Spoon boy: There is no spoon.
The Wachowski Brothers
#99. ...that realisation that I was the oddity, the statistical probability, life was predictable.
Ruth Dugdall
#100. He was a bureaucrat, not a hitman, and most of the time that's what supervillainy looks like in real life.
Ben Dyer
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