Giorgio Morandi Quotes

I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it.

I think that reality exists and that it's knowable.

There may not be one Truth - there may be several truths - but saying that is not to say that reality doesn't exist.

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

The world is everything that is the case.

Is perception equivalent to existence?

Metaphysical world.- It is true, there could be a metaphysical world; the absolute possibility of it is hardly to be disputed. We behold all things through the human head and cannot cut off this head; while the question nonetheless remains what of the world would still be there if one had cut it off.

Man is the measure of all things, of the reality of those which are, and of the unreality of those which are not.

Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.

The one created thing which we cannot look at is the one thing in the light of which we look at everything.

That which is cannot be true.

There are many levels of truth.

From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

The world is real. Consciousness is the illusion.

Whoever says he is starting from a given in nature may be right, and so is he who says he is starting from nothing!

The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordination of facts of the human world to our knowledge of matter.

The world is the totality of facts, not of things.

What, then is truth?... Truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are.

It's all real and it's all illusory: that's Awareness!

There is nothing "ordinary" about reality.

Maybe Santa Claus is real. Here's the problem: reality.

Wizard's Ninth Rule A contradiction can not exist in reality. Not in part, nor in whole.

The fact is one thing and the idea about the fact is another.

When millions of tons of angry elephant come spinning through the sky, and there was no one there to hear it, does it - philosopically speaking - make a noise