Quotes About Reality

She walked up on the snake. Did she really expect not to get bitten?

we reach with our hands and brush away the clouds and pierce the sky to reach the moon and Mars but we still can't reach the truth

Truth only exists for those who cling to it. Sosuke Aizen

Hearts, you say? You Humans are always so quick to speak of such things. As though you carry your hearts in the very palms of your hands. But this eye of mine perceives all. There is nothing that it overlooks. If this eye cannot see a thing, then it does not exist. That is the assumption under which I have always fought. What is this heart? If I tear open that chest of yours, will I see it there? If I smash open that skull of yours, will I see it there?

No world exists without sacrifice. Do we not realize that we call this hell where ash floats upon a sea of blood, the world

We reach out with our hands Brush away the clouds and pirce the sky To grab the moon and mars But we still can't reach the truth

The saying "survival of the fittest" is a smoke screen. It's to give the weak the illusion that they too can be predators if they try hard enough. You're not eaten because you're weak. You're eaten because there are fewer of you. Those that become predators are always…numerous…incompetent…and the loudest. You and everybody else realize that, but pretend not to see it.

Someday Miller is going to die. He knows that and he prides himself on knowing it when everyone else only pretends to, secretly believing that they will live forever.....A simple truth . His mother is also going to die . Just like him. And there is no telling when.

Entrapped by the image, contemporary subjects come to inhabit a world without distance.

An artist can respect the backfield of fact before which every human being stands and choose not to address those facts.

no one in any commercial seems to be unhappy or angry, whatever the circumstances.

Between the stimulation received from the environment and our response, certain processes had to occur inside the brain, and cognitive researchers revealed the human mind to be a great interpreting machine that made patterns and created sense of the world outside, forming maps of reality.

The remarkable thing was that everyone accepted the entire process, seemingly as normal as physical laws of nature, despite the fact that it was really as ethereal as a rainbow. The money did not physically exist. Even "real" money was only specially made paper printed with black ink on the front and green on the back. What backed the money was not gold or something of intrinsic value, but rather the collective belief that money had value because it had to have such value.

after you stop believing in santa claus, the whole world just goes downhill

It's a leadership function. They taught me that at Quantico. The troops have to see you doing the job. They have to know you're there for them." And I have to be sure that it's all real, that I actually am the President.

These kinder and gentler people never really cared much for individuals. They were too interested in the big-picture issues of the day, forcing square reality pegs into the round theoretical holes of how the world was supposed

Life's a bitch, and then you die.

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense

There was reality, and then there was perception, and rarely the two shall meet.

office just wasn't a very good place for thinking, but every executive in the world pretended it was. Christ

pilot might think a 1-percent chance of being shot down on a given mission acceptable, then realize that fifty such missions made it a 40-percent chance.

Being safe is fiction.

there is a vast gap between the promise of the job and its reality. When we enter the ignoble world of work, we are soon shocked at the humiliations we encounter there.

Real dreams are about seeing what others miss. If you have your head in the clouds, you can see the world more clearly. Maybe this is why so many poets and visionaries die young or drink heavily—it is painful when you can see the truth up close. It can be unbearable.