Quotes About Reality

DMT seems to argue, convincingly I might add, that the world is made entirely of something, for want of a better word, we would have to call magic.

People are gonna believe what they want to believe And like I said before, I really don't give a damn.

You don't want no pie in the sky when you die, You want something here on the ground while you're still around.

Train where your fitness is NOW, not where you want to be.

Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived.

Why is it people who want the truth never believe it when they hear it?

The universe does not care what we want.

Some people just see the glory and they don't want to know about the story.

I can't stand these damn shows on museum walls with neat little frames, where you look at the images as if they were pieces of art. I want them to be pieces of life!

Important things are inevitably cliche, but nobody wants to admit that.

People think that they just want movies like Pretty Woman, when really they - at least the ones that I know personally - have been waiting for something that doesn't completely insult them.

I respect newspapers but the reality is that magazine "photojournalism" is finished. They want illustrations, Photoshopped pictures of movie stars.

The world is imperfect, and young people are always trying to perfect it and they always fail - which is a good thing. Who'd want to live in a perfect world?

Everyone wants to be truth tellers today while never thinking we are the ones who need the truth told to us. It's quite amusing.

How few our real wants, and how vast our imaginary ones!

I used to want to be a movie star so I wouldn't have to live in trailers anymore. And now that I make movies, I spend a lot of my life living in trailers.

I paint what cannot be photographed, something from the imagination... I photograph the things I don't want to paint, things that are already in existence.

The kids out there want something they can relate to, something that's real; most of that whiny stuff isn't real. The cheesy pop songs just bore me to death.

The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life... I don't want the issue of Hobbes's reality settled by a doll manufacturer.

Interpretations, like the sculptor's chisel, would be used to target and then chip away at the imprisoning defenses, exposing the patient's inner psychic reality. This inner psychic reality, essentially driven by pleasure-seeking fantasy, pulled the patient away from facing what Freud had referred to as "the brick wall of reality" that would challenge unacceptable fantasies and free the entangled energy for more realistic projects.

the task is "to get the subject to shift from a psychic reality to a true reality" (1988b

JESUS: I'm not above it all--I'm right here in it, don't you see that?

If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again. —Ralph Waldo Emerson

The truth ain't what it used to be.