Quotes about Reality and the Mind

Size is not a reality, but a construct of the mind; and space a construct to contain constructs. Votes: 2

Our relationship to reality and to our experience is all based upon the ideas in our mind that we're always trying to live up to. Votes: 2

I must begin by saying something about the old Germany. That Germany, too, suffered from superficial judgment, because appearances and reality were not always kept apart in people's minds. Votes: 2

To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality. Votes: 2

It's one of the things that looks good written down, but the reality is that you think about the pieces you're doing and try to bear in mind everyone in the audience. Votes: 2

By the time I land in Iowa, I feel like my mind is more open to the reality of being back home and focusing on the problems of the people in my district. Votes: 2

First have being in your mind. Make real in your mind then bring that being into reality. The genius is he who sees what is not yet and causes it to come to be. Votes: 2

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game - and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams. Votes: 2

The mind, whatever else it is, is a constant of everyone's experience, and, in more ways than we know, the creator of the reality that we live within... Nothing is more essential to us. Votes: 2

Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives. Votes: 2

In the world of reality the more beautiful a work of art, the longer, we may be sure, was the time required to make it, and the greater the number of different minds which assisted in its development. Votes: 2

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live! Votes: 2

Concentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the universal, the Reality. This Reality cannot be new. It must exist even now, and it does exist. Votes: 2

For me, the first fact of human existence is the human body. But if you embrace the reality of the human body, you embrace mortality, and that is a very difficult thing for anything to do because the self-conscious mind cannot imagine non-existence. It's impossible to do. Votes: 2

All the analysis of infinite reality which the finite human mind can conduct rests on the tacit assumption that only a finite portion of this reality constitutes the object of scientific investigation, and that only it is 'important' in the sense of being 'worthy of being known.' Votes: 2

There are more than 300,000 families in the Gulf region that lost their homes and are waiting for peace of mind. The hurricane exposed the sad reality of poverty in America. We saw, in all its horrific detail, the vulnerabilities of living in inadequate housing and the heartbreak of losing one's home. Votes: 2

The reality is the world is a really, really big place, and there's a lot of people running around with a lot on their mind. And you really have to figure out how to build a company that can put on a message that can actually reach people and have an impact globally. Votes: 2

Growing up, I was picked on a bit; I was pretty heavy-set, and then I was a theater kid. I just felt unpopular and uncool, so I think in my mind I had this idea of fame and being popular and how nice that would be. The reality of it is sometimes it's not nice. Votes: 2

To act: that is what the writer would like to be able to do, above all. To act, rather than to bear witness. To write, imagine, and dream in such a way that his words and inventions and dreams will have an impact upon reality, will change people's minds and hearts, will prepare the way for a better world. Votes: 2

Your mind can't always tell the difference between pretend and reality if you pretend too long; or if you go too deep and really believe in what you're doing. If you're going to be that kind of actor and go way out there, it's really important to take care of yourself and have a safe place, whatever that is. Votes: 2

Reality is mind-made. Votes: 0

Divine mind is the one and only reality. Votes: 0

Reality is the dream for the subconscious mind. Votes: 0

Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Votes: 0

Always mind the distance between your dreams and your reality. Votes: 0

Fantasy stays in the mind. Reality stays in the heart. Votes: 0

Do not adjust your mind, the fault is in reality. Votes: 0

The mind is the reality. You are what you think. Votes: 0

When Reality is a prison, Your mind can set you free. Votes: 0

Everything is created twice, first in the mind and then in reality. Votes: 0

A crafter's vision never completely survives the journey from mind to reality. Votes: 0

The dominating thoughts of my mind... will transform themselves into physical reality Votes: 0

Suffering is basically the mind's refusal to accept reality as it is. Votes: 0

Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind. Votes: 0

Everything is created twice, first in the mind and then in reality. Votes: 0

Love is reality, fear is an illusory concept created in your mind. Votes: 0

Belief is the mother of reality. Excellence is a state of mind. Votes: 0

In reality, our mind is the creator of all the things we experience. Votes: 0

We control matter because we control the mind. Reality is inside the skull. Votes: 0

Your thoughts create your reality. Your mind is more powerful than you know. Votes: 0

Nothing is any particular way. It's your state of mind that creates reality. Votes: 0

Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality. Votes: 0

All the mind's activity is easy if it is not subjected to reality. Votes: 0

We should always bear in mind that numbers represent a simplification of reality. Votes: 0

The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom. Votes: 0

In your mind you are cheating somebody, but in reality you are cheating yourself. Votes: 0

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality. Votes: 0

In order to experience the Ultimate Reality you have to be out of your mind. Votes: 0

The leading edge of reality is mind, and mind is the primary substratum of being. Votes: 0

Reality is created by the mind, we can change our reality by changing our mind. Votes: 0

Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much. Votes: 0

Really, I protest-what is left for the satirical mind to invent when reality so surpasses it? Votes: 0

Imagination is reality in one's mind waiting to come out at right time with enough efforts. Votes: 0

The hardest thing about reality is returning to it after an hour inside your child's mind. Votes: 0

... the life of the mind is reality, and love without romantic illumination is a spiritless matter. Votes: 0

Beauty begins in the eyes of the beholder; Reality ends in the mind of the observer. Votes: 0

When your mind is set in meditative equipoise, you can see reality exactly as it is Votes: 0

In my opinion, there is no aspect of reality beyond the reach of the human mind. Votes: 0

God is the mind that imagines physical reality. We are each like a cell in that mind. Votes: 0

I can't escape reality but my mind can twist it for me. Therefore, mind can manipulate things. Votes: 0

Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality. Votes: 0

It's my belief that sanity lies in realizing that reality is not exactly what we had in mind. Votes: 0

Part of growing up is making sure your sense of reality isn't entirely grounded in your own mind. Votes: 0

Wishful thinking does wonders for a wishful mind; but in the end, reality always has the final say. Votes: 0

It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality. Votes: 0

First reach your target in your mind, then reaching your target in reality will just be a formality! Votes: 0

Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality. Votes: 0

How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality. Votes: 0

The human mind had a remarkable ability both to discount what it sees and make reality conform to expectation. Votes: 0

A truly open mind means forcing our imaginations to conform to the evidence of reality, and not vice versa. Votes: 0

In my heart I know the truth, but my mind cannot accept the reality of what this all means. Votes: 0

I was taught by my grandfather that anything that your mind can conceive, you can have. It's a reality. Votes: 0

Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality. Votes: 0

Art gives to you a new conception of reality, opens your mind, opens your heart, opens your desire of action. Votes: 0

Most mistakes in philosophy and logic occur because the human mind is apt to take the symbol for the reality. Votes: 0

The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer. Votes: 0

Dreams are reality for the subconscious mind, but wisdom is the perception of knowledge. Wisdom is the internalization of knowledge. Votes: 0

All creative work has its greatest reality while it is still in a man's mind, before he begins to execute it. Votes: 0

It is my opinion that the isolated mind loses its purchase on reality all too easily and becomes prone to fantasy. Votes: 0

Your mind is your only judge of truth-and if others dissent from your verdict, reality is the court of final appeal. Votes: 0

The meditative mind sees disagreeable or agreeable things with equanimity, patience, and good-will. Transcendent knowledge is seeing reality in utter simplicity. (146) Votes: 0

The mind may find unique ways to express what it conceives of reality, but reality remains unchanged by the mind's efforts. Votes: 0

Open your mind to the infinite possibilities that exist for you; then create within your reality the things that you desire. Votes: 0

Your mind doesn't know the difference between reality and fantasy. Your mindacts on what you feed it. Feed it good thoughts. Votes: 0

The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye. Votes: 0

The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality. Votes: 0

Everything is perception. A hallucination is a perception of a certain reality. It is a perception of a certain state of mind. Votes: 0

In reality, it's much easier not to smoke or eat chocolate than to do so. It's your mind that convinces you otherwise. Votes: 0

I have a hyper-active imagination, my mind tends to jump around a little, and I have some trouble between fantasy and reality. Votes: 0

When you're overwhelmed by your emotion, you listen less and you judge more. This is also the reality of the dogmatic mind. Votes: 0

There is an objective reality in which my body and mind are one. But I am not here and never have been. Votes: 0

The subconscious mind is shielding or showing numerous potential paths, based on what it determines would represent a consistent reality for you. Votes: 0

The goings-on in Mind does not depend on what exist in reality. Rather, it depends on what you believe what exists in reality. Votes: 0

Birth is okay and death is okay, if we know that they are only concepts in our mind. Reality transcends both birth and death. Votes: 0

Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality. Votes: 0

Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources, taking the best from every study, Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of the ages. Votes: 0

Words become meaningless, the mind cuts itself off from reality for a little while, a necessary breathing space until one is ready to cope. Votes: 0

Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and reality in our mind. Votes: 0

Birth is okay and death is okay, if we know that they are only concepts in our mind. Reality transcends both birth and death. Votes: 0

An attempt to gain a value by deceiving the mind of others is an act of raising your victims to a position higher than reality. Votes: 0

Command by instinct is swifter, subtler, deeper, more accurate, more in touch with reality than command by conscious mind. The discovery takes one's breath away. Votes: 0

There are other relations besides reality, which the mind is capable of grasping and which also are primary, like chance, illusion, the fantastic, the dream. Votes: 0

Hence, viper thoughts, that coil around my mind,Reality's dark dream!I turn from you, and listen to the wind,Which long has raved unnoticed. Votes: 0

The sole "property" of matter with whose recognition philosophical materialism is bound up is the property of being an objective reality, of existing outside the mind. Votes: 0

Psychedelic drugs undoubtedly open the doors to the mind's panopticon, but what we see in the mental mirrors are mere distortions of reality, not reality itself. Votes: 0

When we recognize that the seemingly object nature of reality is nothing different than the subject nature of mind, which is rigpa, it is called enlightenment. Votes: 0

Well, when you're relaxed, your mind takes you to the whole reality. There's no such thing as time when you're really relaxed. That's why meditation works. Votes: 0

The imaginative is produced by the human mind as it tries to respond to something greater than itself, struggling to find images adequate to the reality. Votes: 0

The fear is not real, Dil Bahadur; it is only in your mind, like all other things. Our thoughts form what we believe to be reality. Votes: 0

Whatever I hold in my mind tends to manifest itself in my life. What we believe and assume creates most of our reality and our experience. Votes: 0

I'm a tek addict myself. No matter where you are, people are looking for something to tear them away from reality, challenge their state of mind. Votes: 0

Doth the Reality of sensible things consist in being perceived? or, is it something distinct from their being perceived, and that bears no relation to the mind? Votes: 0

Your mind creates your reality. If you expect nothing, you open up the universe to give you options. If you expect the worst, you usually get it. Votes: 0

Oftentimes, people stay where they are in life simply because of fear. But do you know that fear isn't reality? It's only a thought in your mind. Votes: 0

You visualize yourself as the person you want to be. You strive to make the ideal in your mind become a reality on the canvas of Time. Votes: 0

If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both. Votes: 0

The real tight interface is between the book and the reader-the world of the book is plugged right into your brain, never mind the [virtual reality] bodysuit. Votes: 0

If you keep examining your mind, you'll come to see that thoughts of who you are and how it all is are creating the reality you're experiencing. Votes: 0

Animism is a monist metaphysical stance, based upon the idea that mind and matter are not distinct and separate substances but an integrated reality, rooted in nature. Votes: 0

I am after painting reality impressed on the mind so hard that it returns as a dream, but I am not after painting dreams as such, or fantasy. Votes: 0

To know the reality one has to enter into the realm of Meta-science, beyond mind, which is only possible when we enter into the collective super-consciousness through self-realisation. Votes: 0

Enlightenment is a perfect state of mind. It is the direct seeing of reality. The world most people see, which they call life, is really just a dream. Votes: 0

Gone is the blinding glow in his hands - gone, too, is the illusion of purity and beauty! In it's place all that remains is mind-numbing, spine-chilling reality! Votes: 0

When the mind is possessed of reality, it feels tranquil and joyous even without music or song, and it produces a pure fragrance even without incense or tea. Votes: 0

You cannot conceive the many without the one...The study of the unit is among those that lead the mind on and turn it to the vision of reality. Votes: 0

What harm is there in dreaming, if it eases pain? What good is reality, if it blots out hope? Can a man's mind be washed without bleaching his soul? Votes: 0

Whatever conclusions we reach about the reality of God, the history of this idea must tell us something important about the human mind and the nature of our aspiration. Votes: 0

People are different in reality from the way you've seen them while making scenarios in your mind. For one thing, they're less consistent. They surprise you all the time. Votes: 0

Humans eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and bad. Suddenly, they start cutting reality up into bits and pieces, which is what the thinking mind does. Votes: 0

Different mind, different perceptions, different imaginations. But truth is one. You can't run away from truth. That is reality, observe the reality as it is. Stop wandering, travel inside. Votes: 0