Immediate Reality Quotes

This-the immediate, everyday, and present experience-is IT, the entire and ultimate point for the existence of a universe.

The news automatically becomes the real world for the TV user and is not a substitute for reality, but is itself an immediate reality.

All I know is what I am getting.

Time will mellow it, make it a moment for laughter. But now it was not funny, now I did not laugh. It was not the future, it was the present. It was too vivid and too real.

Let us leave theories there and return to here's hear.

We shouldn't live as if [other worlds] mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.

At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.

Then I reflect that all things happen, happen to one, precisely now. Century follows century, and things happen only in the present. There are countless men in the air, on land and at sea, and all that really happens happens to me.

To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here and now is what we must contend with.

I don't want to know what's good, or bad, or true. I let God worry about the truth. I just want to know the momentary fact about things. Life isn't good, or bad, or true. It's merely factual, it's sensual, it's alive. My idea of living sensual facts are you, a home, a country, a world, a universe, in that order.

If you think you know where you're going to be 10 years from now, that's where you're at now. You're just putting it off.