Quotes About Reality

I'm sorry, but this isn't a movie or a play—there is no convenient third-act rescue that gives us an easy solution. This is real life.

Don't base reality on what you have seen when you have seen very little,

I made it clear to the world that what Jade and I had found in each other was more real than any other world, more real than time, more real than death, more real, even, than she and I.

If endless love was a dream, then it was a dream we all shared, even more that we all shared the dream of never dying or traveling through time, and if anything set me apart it was not my impulses but my stubbornness, my willingness to take the dream past what had been agreed upon as the reasonable limits, to declare that this dream was not a feverish trick of the mind but was an actuality at least as real as that other, thinner more unhappy illusion we call normal life.

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more in apprehension than in reality,

It wasn't luck or the order of the universe. It was simply what had happened.

This is life. You know the philosphers? The Present never stops. There's only the Present. You cheat life if you live in the Past.

Life is a lying dream, he only wake Who casts the World aside.

There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.

The world is not magic — and that's the most magical thing about it.

The world keeps happening, in accordance with its rules; it's up to us to make sense of it and give it value.

Illusions can be pleasant, but the rewards of truth are enormously better.

As we understand the world better, the idea that it has a transcendent purpose seems increasingly untenable.

When we want something to be true, when a belief makes us happy—that's precisely when we should be questioning. Illusions can be pleasant, but the rewards of truth are enormously greater.

It doesn't include math or logic, nor does it address issues of judgment, such as aesthetics or morality. Science has a simple goal: to figure out what the world actually is. Not all the possible ways it could be, nor the particular way it should be. Just what it is. There's

If you believe that the atoms that are inside your brain and your body act differently because they are in a living person than if they were in a rock or a crystal, then what you're saying is that the laws of physics are wrong.

Quantum Mechanics doesn't deserve the connotation of spookiness in the sense of some ineffable mystery that it is beyond the human mind to comprehend. Quantum Mechanics is amazing; it is novel, profound, mind-stretching & a very different view of reality from what we're used to.

Life ends, and that's part of what makes it special. What exists is here, in front of us, what we can see and touch and affect. Our lives are not dress rehearsals in which we plan and are tested in anticipation of the real show to come. This is it, the only performance we're going to get to give, and it is what we make of it.

Quantum reality is a wave function; classical positions and velocities are merely what we are able to observe when we probe that wave function.

Space itself is not fundamental; it's just a useful way of talking from certain points of view.

Sometimes guessing is the best you can do. In the real world, we guess all the time and it serves us well.

Time doesn't heal scars as most people commonly think. It simply makes them firmer, stiffer. One must accept it and not hope to mend and return to what he or she once was.

There may be always a time of innocence. There is never a place.

The camera will never compete with the brush and the palette, until such time as photographs can be taken in Heaven or Hell.