Quotes About Reality

The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth. —Bene Gesserit Precept I

Suspicions have a way of becoming "facts," even if they have no basis in truth.

Despite their biological flaws, human beings continue to see things that our most sophisticated sensors cannot detect, and they understand strange concepts that gelcircuitry minds cannot comprehend. It is no surprise, then, that so many of them go insane. —Erasmus Dialogues

In a society where hard data is uncertain at best, one must be careful to manipulate the truth. Appearance becomes reality. Perception becomes fact. Use this to your advantage. Empress Herade, A Primer on the Finer Points of Culture in the Imperium

Assumptions are a transparent grid through which we view the universe, sometimes deluding ourselves that the grid is that universe. —COGITOR EKLO OF EARTH

A man cannot drink from a mirage, but he can drown in it.

Beliefs are more powerful than facts." Leto stared through the thick sky at the magnificent, distant ship and frowned. It was often difficult to separate truth from fiction.…

The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. —Meditations from Bifrost Eyrie, Buddislamic Text

Suspicions have a way of becoming "facts," even if they have no basis in truth. —PRINCESS IRULAN, The Book of Muad'Dib

There are no facts—only observational postulates in an endlessly regenerative hodgepodge of predictions. Consensus reality requires a fixed frame of reference. In a multi-level, infinite universe, there can be no fixity; thus, no absolute consensus reality. In a relativistic universe, it appears impossible to test the reliability of any expert by requiring him to agree with another expert. Both can be correct, each in his own inertial system. Bene Gesserit Azhar Book

Some lies are easier to believe than the truth. —Orange Catholic Bible

Facts mean nothing when they are preempted by appearances. Do not underestimate the power of impression over reality. —CROWN PRINCE RAPHAEL CORRINO, The Rudiments of Power

We create our own future by our own beliefs, which control our actions. A strong enough belief system, a sufficiently powerful conviction, can make anything happen. This is how we create our consensus reality, including our gods. —REVEREND MOTHER RAMALLO, Sayyadina of the Fremen

When did life start being something you had to work at and not something that just is?

Some dreams really do come true. That said, most dreams are weird as shit.

I hated being twelve. Back in '65, I just wanted to grow up fast so everything would finally be good, you know? But truth is, life was actually way better back then. Turns out, the older you get... the more everything just turns to shit.

Teachers always promise that students are in a safe place, but most of us figure out that's a lie pretty fast. My very first fire drill was all the confirmation I needed that the worst can happen anywhere, anytime.

I started out as an idea, but I ended up something more. Not much more to be honest. It's not like I grow up to become some great war hero or any sort of all-important savior...

Thanks, but I don't need the Afterschool Special talk. Sounds like I've got, what, three or four years left? That's a fuckin' eternity.

On iki ya??nda olmaktan nefret ediyordum. 1965'teyken bir an önce büyümeyi ve sonunda her ÅŸeyin düzelmesini istiyordum, anlars?n ya ? Ama asl?nda hayat çok daha iyiydi. MeÄŸerse yaÅŸland?kça... her ÅŸey iyice boka bat?yormuÅŸ.

Traditionally—if such a contraction be allowed—any form of intellectual aim that did not take account of this antecedent, archetypal order of reality would have been considered all but invalid. Now, in many quarters, to give any sort of credence to its effective presence is likely to be seen as a sign of willful eccentricity.

At its highest, this wisdom arrives at an understanding of how the human maker may act analogously to the Divine Creator, echoing the "art" of God's creating the phenomenal world from noumenal levels of reality in as much as he, the craftsman, makes from some already existing substance what does not yet exist in nature. He thus is said to "imitate nature in her manner of operation", in the words of St. Thomas that Coomaraswamy so frequently quotes.

Tis a child that dreams there's something better 'round the corner. It's a grown man who knows it's right there in front of him.

Your thoughts, vividly imagined and repeated, charged with emotion, become your reality.