Quotes About Reality

What we think expands and becomes reality

One is always free and one is always alone. The mind is only dreaming.

If you are born on the edge of a barrel of shit, you have to accept the likelihood of falling into it now and then.

The absence of consensus does not mean an absence of truth

Die Revolution wirkte auf mich und meine Altersgenossen gerade umgekehrt wie der Krieg: der Krieg hatte unser wirkliches Leben bis zur Langweiligkeit unverändert gelassen, dafür aber unsere Phantasie reichen und unerschöpflichen Stoff gegeben. Die Revolution brachte viel Neues in die tägliche Wirklichkeit, und das Neue war bunt und aufregend genug, aber sie ließ die Phantasie unbeschädigt.

When we genuinely acknowledge a child's plight and voice her disappointment, she often gathers the strength to face reality. Seven-year-old

Nudity is our first reality, which has covered our bodies with social concepts.

Reality is not the same to the doer as it is to the sayer

Provided we can escape from the museums we carry around inside us, provided we can stop selling ourselves tickets to the galleries in our own skulls, we can begin to contemplate an art which re-creates the goal of the sorcerer: changing the structure of reality by the manipulation of living symbols ... Art tells gorgeous lies that come true.

Let us admit that we have attended parties where for one brief night a republic of gratified desires was attained. Shall we not confess that the politics of that night have more reality and force for us than those of, say, the entire U.S. Government? Some of the "parties" we've mentioned lasted for two or three years. Is this something worth imagining, worth fighting for? Let us study invisibility, webworking, psychic nomadism--and who knows what we might attain?

Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.

Find the truth and spread the lie.

The Book does not play James Joyce with the Universe.

Fuck the epistemic modality; this is alethic modality we're talking now, not factuality but possibility.

Most 'reality' shows aren't reality at all. They're game shows with no prize. Like 'Rock of Love.' His aren't genuine feelings. Then again, Bob Barker didn't really care whether or not you won the toaster. Sorry to shatter everyone's dreams.

Only when we accept the fact that the world is never exactly as we see it through our individual lens of perception will we be able to accept ourselves or the mystery that is life itself.

Remember, any lie you are told, even deliberately, is often a more significant fact than a truth told in all sincerity.

But mostly poetic I'm whatever I've seen on a movie screen

I spent a long time watering a plant made out of plastic, and I cursed the ground for growing green.

There are few chapters in the biography of the childhood of men of genius more significant than those which describe imaginary worlds which were, for a time, as real as the actual world in which the boy lived.

There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives.

Reality of things is hidden in the realm of the unseen

I've had thousands of problems in my life. Most of which never actually happened.

The ultimate trauma of heedlessness, then, is not seeing reality as it truly is. It is choosing a way of living that allows divine signs to be left unnoticed.