Chuck D Quotes

The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Things aren't different. Things are things.

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Beef is beef, you know. Beef comes, so Beef is real.

You are.

I am truth. I was made of truth.

To be rather than to seem.

The unnamed should not be mistaken for the nonexistent.

In nature alone are forms. That which is not of nature cannot have any forms, fine or gross. It must be formless.

When we talk about our lives, long or short, brief and tragic or enduring beyond comprehension, we impose a continuity on them, and that continuity is a lie.

Nothing is more abstract than reality.

Although the pure truth has never been stated, nevertheless it has never been lost. Its existence does not depend upon human statement but upon human sensitivity. In this it is unlike all other knowledge.

What thou art, that thou art.

He wrote on a piece of paper with his pencil. Psychosis: out of touch with reality. Since then, I have been trying to find out what reality is, so that I can touch it.

Whatever you might say the object "is", well it is not.

People believe I am what they see Me as, rather than what they do not see. But I am the Great Unseen, not what I cause Myself to be in any particular moment. In a sense, I am what I am not. It is from the Am-notness that I come, and to it I always return.

For nature is not merely present , but is implanted within things, distant from none... And while the outer face of things changeth so greatly, there flourisheth the origin of being more intimately within all things than they themselves. The fount of all kinds, Mind , God , Being, One, Truth , Destiny , Reason , Order .

For any particular thing, ask: What is it in itself? What is its nature?

Beyond positive and negative, what is Reality?

It is not a thing that you can imagine. It only is. After that, there can be no imagining.

A thing either is what it appears to be; or it is not, but yet appears to be; or it is, but does not appear to be; or it is not, and does not appear to be.

Just because something is a metaphor doesn't mean it can't be real.

Every thing is what it is, and not another thing.

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.