Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

Nothing is more abstract than reality.

Beyond positive and negative, what is Reality?

My major preoccupation is the question, 'What is reality?'

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

The One, the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, these are what we call the transcendental attributes of Being, because they surpass all the limits of essences and are coextensive with Being.

The world is real. Consciousness is the illusion.

Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.

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

Einstein said, if everything exists as a substance of qualities, and qualities exist only in mind, then all is mind.

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

The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot be said to have broken down as a result of recent experience in the physical sciences, for this barrier does not exist.

We do not say: Being is, time is, but rather: there is Being and there is time.

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

The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself.

The future and eternity are two entirely different things.

'Do not touch ontologically' doesn't mean 'are separated by empirically measurable hard edges.'

The Greeks are wrong to recognize coming into being and perishing; for nothing comes into being nor perishes, but is rather compounded or dissolved from things that are. So they would be right to call coming into being composition and perishing dissolution.

What is this universe but name and form?

Is perception equivalent to existence?

Once you start describing nothingness, you end up with somethingness.

Existence is illusory and it is eternal.

I stick my finger into existence.. it smells of nothing. Where am I? Who am I? What is this thing called the world? What does this word mean?

The greatest mystery of all is reality.

Being that can be understood is language.

The world divides into facts.