Louis Sachar Quotes

If you're asking me as the President, would I understand reality, I do.

Our physical senses and our embodied brains allow us to perceive only a small fraction of reality. We cannot see microbes or untraviolet light, for example. We can hear only a small range of sounds. When we try to describe the otherworld of energies and spirits, we are limited not only by our bodily constraints but by the expectations, assumptions, and language patterns ingrained in us by the culture we were raised in.

Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

I suspect there could be life and intelligence out there in forms we can't conceive. Just as a chimpanzee can't understand quantum theory, it could be there as aspects of reality that are beyond the capacity of our brains They could be staring us in the face and we just Don't recognise them. The problem is that we-re looking for something very much like us, assuming that they at least have something like the same mathematics and technology.

One may even suspect that there is more to reality than measurements will ever reveal.

There is no true life. Your true life is the one you end up with, whatever it may be. You just do the best you can with what you've got.

Science is a kind of glorified tailoring enterprise, a method for taking measurements that describe something ? reality ? that may not be understood at all.

Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.

...the most obvious, ubiquitous, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about.

The existing scientific concepts cover always only a very limited part of reality, and the other part that has not yet been understood is infinite.

To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is. A pessimistic attitude can never create the calm and serene smile which blossoms on the lips of Bodhisattvas and all those who obtain the way.

There may be beings, thinking beings, near or surrounding us, which we do not perceive, which we cannot imagine. We know very little; but, in my opinion, we know enough to hope for the immortality, the individual immortality, of the better part of man.

Even great spirits have only their five-fingers' breadth of experience - just beyond it their thinking ceases and their endless empty space and stupidity begins.

The one reality science cannot reduce is the only reality we will ever know.

What is nonsense, and what is not, then, may be merely a matter of perspective.

Man cannot live upon words, however he may try.

I've learned to write the truth. But to do that, I had to figure out what the truth was-and I had to realize that the truth isn't always the same for everyone. I had to realize that my truth may not be the same as your truth.

Truth is a necessary phantom.

Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.

We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world.

Depending on the reality one must face, one may prefer to opt for illusion.

'Tis certain that our senses are extremely disproportioned for comprehending the whole compass and latitude of things.

Solipsism may be logically consistent with present Quantum Mechanics, Monism in the sense of Materialism is not.

If you just rely on one model, you tend to amputate reality to make it fit your model.

A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.