Quotes About Reality

Brains are survival engines, not truth detectors.

Not even the most heavily-armed police state can exert brute force to all of its citizens all of the time. Meme management is so much subtler; the rose-tinted refraction of perceived reality, the contagious fear of threatening alternatives.

What's the difference between being dead, and just not knowing you're alive?

Visual reality is the starting point, but beneath this the true intention is the poetic vision. These twin poles – the encounter with reality and the imaginative transformation of reality – are the two opposing poles around which all artistic endeavour has been concentrated for thousands of years.

Go mortals, sweat, pant, toil, range the lands and seas to pile up riches you cannot keep; glory that will not last. The life we lead is a sleep; whatever we do, dreams. Only death breaks the sleep and wakes us from dreaming. I wish I could have woken before this.

Qué quiere que le diga? Gente tranquila, más pobre que las ratas. Aunque, tal como va el mundo, llamamos tranquilos a los que tienen miedo.

Birçok a??klar? dedektif hâline sokan ?üpheyi gizlemeden hakikatle temas etmenin mümkün olmad???n?, Nevzat, her kad?n meselesinde gayet iyi bilirdi. Fakat bu defa, hepsinden daha kuvvetli bir sevginin verdi?i ümitten kendini kurtaram?yordu. ?üphesi nispetinde kuvvetli bir itimat ve ümit ihtiyac?.

Kendinizi hasta farzetmeyiniz. Hastal?k, çok defa bu zand?r.

Ben daima hayal içinde ya??yorum, fakat... hakikat... beni her yerde koval?yor ve kar??ma ç?k?yor.

Bir taraf?n hatas? gerçe?i 'hususi ve ferdi'ye ba?lamamas?, öteki taraf?n hatas? 'umumi ve mü?terek'e ba?lamas?d?r. Bir ?ey var olabilmek için hususi ve umumi vas?flara ayn? derecede muhtaç oldu?una göre, gerçe?i bunlardan yaln?z birine ba?lamak mümkün de?ildir.

Rüyalar?m?z, bir delinin uyan?k ?uurundaki abuk sabuk hayallerin tecellisinden ba?ka nedir? Hepimiz günün bir k?sm?nda, yani uyurken deliriyoruz ve belki de akl?n çemberinden, s?k?nt?s?ndan kurtulan ruhumuz böylelikle dinleniyor. Biz rüyalar?m?zda ç?ld?r?yoruz, deliler uyan?kken rüya görüyorlar.

Ben de gülümsedim ve ç?lg?n bir sevinçle hâdisenin üstüne aban?yor, gayr-i hakikî bir nokta ar?yordum; fakat bir kere, inanman?n ?ehveti ba?lad?ktan sonra, hakikat oldu?una iman edilen ?eyi bütün i?tiyaklar?yla kucakl?yan insanlar gibi sevinçten ç?ld?r?yordum, kuruntumun utanc?n? duymayacak kadar mes'uttum.

Tuhaf" dedi, benim bu k?z? gözlerim ?s?r?yor. Ben dedim ki, e?er güzellerin vücutlar?nda göz ?s?r?klar? iz b?raksayd?, bütün yüzleri, boyunlar?, bacaklar?, ayaklar? çürük içinde kal?rd?.

?nsanlar?n hayat?nda s?k s?k olan bir ?eye inanmamak, inanmak de?il, inanmamak, izahtan aciz kald???m?z her hadiseyi hurafe sayan bir hurafedir.

Things are not always what they seem.

Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many. The intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden.

Things are not always what they seem; outward form deceives many; rare is the mind that discerns what is carefully concealed within.

Symbolism and surrealism overlap in the way they give primacy to mental reality over objective reality, and this in turn gives rise to a certain kind of space. ("Introduction")

And the sad part is that you actually believe in The Undertaker. You actually believe that he has all these magic powers which is really alll just smoke and mirrors.

If, as some savants of consciousness suggest, we are actually agreeing to create, from moment to moment, everything we perceive as real, then it stands to reason that we're also responsible for keeping it going in some harmonious manner.

It was the way things were going. People realizing how little time they had left to get rich before the planet melted.

This is the only real revelation — that God is only a trick with mirrors, our dark reflection in a glass.

There's never a good time to tell someone that you don't really exist.

We know that measurements of a quantum system seem to collapse the wavefunction. We most certainly don't know how, or why, or indeed if that actually happens.