Quotes About Reality

What happened at the end of our last story is something called misdirection. It's what happens when you are led to believe that something is true, but in reality it's not true at all. Misdirection happens a lot in real life- especially in politics, history, education, medicine, marketing, science, religion, and the Oprah Winfrey Network.

Time is to clock as mind is to brain. The clock or watch somehow contains the time. And yet time refuses to be bottled up like a genie stuffed in a lamp. Whether it flows as sand or turns on wheels within wheels, time escapes irretrievably, while we watch.

Time is only a state of mind, so being late is only a thought one can posess.

I have an imagination because my life is so boring that my imagination lets me get off the reality of what's going on.

A perfect parent is a person with excellent child-rearing theories and no actual children.

Ce monde reste primitif, Shonsu. Ne t'attends pas à des déductions salariales, à des assurances maladie et à des plans de retraite…

if you can rid your life of realities by night and keep your days as one long dream always, then you will indeed be blessed of the Gods. Gath

We all find reasons to accept sugary fables and ignore unwelcome tidings.

La vérité est comme un joyau taillé, monsieur Smith. Elle a des millions de facettes. Si je t'en montre une, tu seras satisfait, mais n'oublie pas qu'il en existe bien d'autres. —

People believe what they want to believe, lad. It's very hard to believe in anything that will make you unhappy.

Why do you want to be on The Real World? -Because I want everyone to witness my youth Why? -Isn't it gorgeous?

It's rare that people sail beautifully straight through their beautiful lives, always looking beautiful.

Like the blind men of the proverb, each individual feels a piece of the elephant, and the enormity of what he has found is overwhelming enough to convince each blindly groping observer that he has found the essence of the beast. But the whole beast is far more enormous and vastly more terrifying than society as a whole is prepared to believe.

I am sick and tired of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell. —William Tecumseh Sherman

seeing the elephant.

The good news and the bad news are the same: No one cares!

Take what you can from your dreams, make them as real as anything.

Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically ' they really mean, 'not really.'

None of this is real.

"Don't Kid Yourself" would be the greatest brand name for birth control pills.

it is worth looking closer and remembering something Marcos Alvito told me: Statistics are like a bikini. They show so much, but they hide the most important parts.

The value of an established brand is in part due to the reality that it is more difficult to build brands today than it was only a few decades ago.

Moreover, when you interact with the external world, you get more involved with realistic rules of thumb. When you're in your head, by contrast, you can imagine anything. This is why anticipatory worry is almost always worse than anything that actually happens in real life—there are no rules in your head, anything seems possible! In the external world, the rules of reality apply.

For magicians -- whether modern entertainers or indigenous, tribal sorcerers -- have in common the fact that they work with the malleable texture of perception.