Quotes About Reality

One of the greatest bores in life is a too knowing fellow, who sees through all delusions, and will never let you enjoy any of them, not even your favorite ones, no matter how agreeable they may be, but must be always waking you out of some delicious dream, only to tell you, "My dear sir, you are dreaming;" as if it were not both proper and natural to dream. He forgets that many things are pleasant only while the delusions which make them so last.

An illusion dissipated is an experience gained.

Wishing is a way to remove oneself from what is going on now. Hope springs eternal. Fuck hope. Hope is how most of us avoid growing up.

What is true changes, so we can't tell the truth once and be done with it. It's an ongoing game.

Bullshit is a sales pitch for an interpretation of reality that comes with any interpretation of reality. All interpretations of reality are bullshit. Freedom is not being dominated by your own bullshit.

When you speak descriptively about a present-tense experience, and it changes, you have spoken the truth. It's okay that it is no longer true. Don't worry about it. It is the way things are, and it is fine that they are that way. It's more fun and less boring than trying to keep track of everything. It's called freedom.

These fantasies about the future, based on the past, are the hope and hype we con ourselves with. Even if we get what we always wanted it never looks like we thought it would when it arrives.

Telling stories about your memory of what happened may be entertaining for a while, but if that is all you can do it gets boring pretty fast.

Yesterday's truth is today's bullshit. Even yesterday's liberating insight is today's jail of stale explanation.

You can still tell the truth by "pointing to" an abstraction or assessment of your mind, if your intent is simply to point out your thought, rather than to make the other person believe your thought to be the "right interpretation" of reality.

Climate is what we expect. Weather is what we get." Robert A. Heinlein

Most suffering is generated by the tendency of the mind to moralize and judge, and to mistake belief for reality. 4.

Truthfulness about beliefs sets you free from unconscious domination by beliefs you have come to think are reality. Then, once you are free of the illusion that beliefs are real, you can choose to be consciously dominated by beliefs you know are not real.

As we age we begin to grasp at youthful bliss like a life raft in a sea of harsh reality.

Surrealism: An archaic term. Formerly an art movement. No longer distinguishable from everyday life.

One foot on Mount Olympus, the other in the kitty litter.

It's the worst part of seeing old friends: when your rose-colored memories become undone by reality.

The worst lies in life are the ones we tell ourselves.

People are more twisted than people think.

A gentleman is contemplative in that he never ceases to refine his sense of reality.

general relativity and quantum mechanics cannot both be right,

Not only have past processes made us what we are-"modern" or "postmodern" selves, rather than "medieval" or "early modern" selves-but by explaining them we both account for and implicitly justify present realities.

Facts don't care about your feelings.

that didn't happen. Lily had heard