Quotes About Reality

The only difference between a madman and myself is that I am not mad.

I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I'm never served a cooked telephone.

I believe that the moment is near when by a procedure of active paranoiac thought, it will be possible to systematize confusion and contribute to the total discrediting of the world of reality.

Surrealism is not a movement. It is a latent state of mind perceivable through the powers of dream and nightmare.

When we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another.

Nu eu sunt bufonul, ci societatea monstruos de cinic? ?i naiv de incon?tient? care pretinde c? este serioas? numai pentru a-?i ascunde mai bine nebunia. Eu, în schimb - nu sunt nebun.

Que nosso fogo interno esteja ao máximo, para esquentar a regra ao rubro e modificá-la! Que nossa realidade interior seja tão forte que corrija a realidade exterior! E que nossas paixões sejam devorantes, mas que tenhamos um apetite de viver ainda maior, para devorá-las!

Have no fear of perfection -- you will never reach it.

The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad!

The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.

One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.

What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.

Somos una errata que ha pasado inadvertida y que hace confuso un texto por lo demás muy claro; el trastocamiento de las líneas de un texto que nos hace cobrar vida de esta manera prodigiosa; o un texto que por estar reflejado en un espejo cobra un sentido totalmente diferente del que en realidad tiene.

Man is manifestly not the measure of all things. This universe is shot through with mystery. The very fact of its being, and of our own, is a mystery absolute, and the only miracle worthy of the name.

But, she remembers, you always have to assume that the present is real. It's the only way to remain sane. It's the only way to remain ethical.

Until you can prove otherwise, always assume you're in reality.

She liked reality shows the best, and then the shows that purported to be about reality.

You can't believe people when they look you in the eyes. You gotta' look behind them. See what they're standing in front of. What they're hiding. Everyone's hiding, Wes. Everybody. Nobody look like what they are.

people here have become the people they're pretending to be.

Fighting is a way to feel, an anti–video game, a way to force some-thing to happen. That's what brought me back to it, because when I've fought someone, I know something has happened. How many days of your life pass you by that you could take or leave? When nothing really happened?

Until you play it, St. Andrews looks like the sort of real estate you couldn't give away

this is what we hope for, the objective reality of our future inheritance, not the feeling of hope or expectation in our hearts. So