Quotes About Reality

You ask me what you will be there. But what are you here? What are you creatures of Fantastica? Dreams, poetic inventions, characters in a neverending story. Do you think you're real? Well yes, here in your world you are.

In fact, that's the heart of the matter. Don't you see? If humans believe Fantastica doesn't exist, they won't get the idea of visiting your country. And as long as they don't know you creatures of Fantastica as you really are, the Manipulators do what they like with them.

The human world is full of weak-minded people, who think they're as clever as can be and are convinced that it's terribly important to persuade even the children that Fantastica doesn't exist. Maybe they will be able to make good use of you.

Hayal kurmak, suç iÅŸlemekten farks?zd?.

Hayatta en tehlikeli ÅŸey, gerçekleÅŸmemiÅŸ hayallerdir.

Postoje ljudi koji nikada ne mogu da odu u fantaziju, i postoje ljudi koji mogu da odu, ali zauvek ostaju tamo. Postoji samo nekolicina onih koji odlaze u fantaziju i vra?aju se iz nje. Oni isceljuju oba sveta.

Only the right name gives beings and things their reality,' she said. 'A wrong name makes everything unreal.

Solo su verdadero nombre hace reales a todos los seres y todas las cosas. Un nombre falso lo convierte todo en irreal. Eso es lo que hace la mentira

Me gustaría saber qué pasa realmente en un libro cuando está cerrado. Naturalmente, dentro solo hay letras impresas sobre el papel, pero sin embargo algo debe pasar, porque cuando lo abro aparece de pronto una historia entera.

Have you noticed that it's enough just to close your eyes for a few minutes? he asked softly. When you open them again you are in another reality. Everything changes all the time.

Hay seres que sin saber bien por qué, se sienten sin raíces en este mundo. Lo que los demás llaman realidad les parece un espejismo, un sueño confuso y a menudo angustioso. Se sienten condenados a vivir en este mundo como si se tratara de un exilio en tierra hostil. Con nostalgia incurable añoran otra realidad que creen recordar como una patria lejana, sin poder formular nada concreto sobre ella.

There is nothing more dangerous in life than dreams that come true...

The affirmation of a sexuality that has never been more rigorously subjugated than during the age of the hypocritical, bustling, and responsible bourgeoisie is coupled with the grandiloquence of a discourse purporting to reveal the truth about sex, modify its economy within reality, subvert the law that governs it, and change its future. The statement of oppression and the form of the sermon refer back to one another; they are mutually reinforcing

deceivers must expect to be deceived.

Look at your hand. Its structure does not match the structure of assertions, the structure of facts. Your hand is continuous. Assertions and facts are discontinuous.... You lift your index finger half an inch; it passes through a million facts. Look at the way your hand goes on and on, while the clock ticks, and the sun moves a little further across the sky.

I remember the tale of the rabbi to whom a dead man came with a problem: he believed that he was alive. Don't you know, the rabbi told him, that you are no longer among the living? You are in the Land of Confusion. On hearing the story, the rabbi's son worried that he too was in the Land of Confusion. Once you know that there exists such a world, you cannot be in it, explained the father. (208)

He said there are three kinds of history. The first is what really happened, and that is lost forever. The second is what most people thought happened, and we can recover that with assiduous effort. The third is what the people in power wanted the future to think happened, and that is 90 percent of the history in books.

The reality is that love of God is expressed fully as love of both friend and enemy.  It

Conventional journalism could no more reveal this war than conventional firepower could win it

Some stories must be told—not because they will delight and instruct but because they happened.

From On Combat (2004) Do not expect the combat fairy to come bonk you with the combat wand and suddenly make you capable of doing things that you never rehearsed before. It will not happen.

When prescribing one of the drugs I take, my doctor warned me of a common side effect: exaggerated, intensely vivid dreams. To be honest, I've never really noticed the difference. I've always dreamt big.

A philosophy untouched by the shadows on the wall can only yield a sterile utopia.

Reality is a cloud of possibility, not a point.