Grasping Reality Quotes

Since form is emptiness and emptiness is form, then instead of a hand grasping at nothing, it is better to grasp at someone's nose because this is closer to reality.

But the creative principle resides in mathematics. In a certain sense, therefore, I hold true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients dreamed.

Finally it has penetrated my thick skull. This life-this moment-is no dress rehearsal. This is it.

Trying to get people to face reality and see the world the way it really is is an absolutely critical aspect of leadership, in my view.

Nobody goes, 'I'm a top 10 fighter. Well, maybe Top 15. I can beat a lot of guys'... Nobody ever says that. That's the thing with having a grasp on reality. I know I'm not the best.

Life, in a sense, is living and surviving. And all that makes for living and surviving is good. He who follows the fact cannot go astray, while he who has no reverence for the fact wanders afar.

The only thing we have to give to the world is our own grasp on it.

Reality is a magic lady, sometimes very mysterious. To me she is very passionate. She is real not only when she is awake, walking down the streets, but also at night when she is dreaming or when she is having nightmares. When I am writing, I am always paying tribute to her - to that lady called Reality.

To perceive means to immobilize... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.

Sometimes it seems like if you open up the door to reality and invite it in, it will just come flowing.

Intelligence is the seeing of what is.

To seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.

The political is replacing the metaphysical as the characteristic mode of grasping reality.

The only sovereign I can allow to rule me is reason. The first law of reason is this: what exists exists; what is is. From this irreducible, bedrock principle, all knowledge is built. This is the foundation from which life is embraced. Reason is a choice. Wishes and whims are not facts, nor are they a means to discovering them. Reason is our only way of grasping reality–it is our basic tool of survival. We are free to evade the effort of thinking, to reject reason, but we are not free to avoid the penalty of the abyss we refuse to see." -Richard

It is better to understand a part of truth and apply it to our lives than to understand nothing at all and flounder helplessly in a vain attempt to pierce the mystery of existence.

Sometimes the act of walking in the face of the elements helps us come to grips with reality. Or it simply exhausts us to the point of seeing the futility of resisting reality and the futility of denial.

Every single moment is expressive of the truth of our lives when we know how to look.

Sometimes it is harder to accede to a thing than it is to see its truth.