Quotes About Reality

Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.

She said that certain facts are accessible only from one point of view--the point of view of the creature who experiences them. You think she meant that the only shoes we can ever wear are our own. Meg can't imagine what it's like for you to be you, she can only imagine herself being you.

Growing up meant admitting you couldn't have everything.

Then all the lights go out. As we follow him through the course of a frenzied week, we discover that beyond the frolic and wondrous prospects this young man has, essentially, nothing. The question is, which is worse: living an illusion, or losing it?

If what we took to be objective reality was so fragile that it could be swept away by 400 milligrams of mescaline, then perhaps the vitalists who had argued that the brain was merely a mechanism to stabilize an anarchic world were correct. Perhaps the notion of objective reality was a paradox.

And me?" Daphne prompted. "You go with Abe because you're the one who knows how to get a read on people based on their living spaces." "Oh, wow," Daphne said. "I get to play forensic designer." "I see a book and possibly a TV reality show in this," Madeline said. "Stick with me, kid." Daphne pushed herself up from the table. "I'm headed for the big time.

There is no such thing as closure as far as I'm concerned." Julius tossed the contents of another egg into the bowl. "Things are what they are. You deal with reality and move on.

But here's the thing -- you've got questions of your own. The questions won't go away just because you try to ignore them. You may never get answers, but you need to accept that the questions are real and that you have reasons for asking them.

Absolute certainty is the greatest of all illusions.

Maybe his worst nightmare had finally become his new reality.

The opening sentence of his latest book could have served as his personal motto: Absolute certainty is the greatest of all illusions.

The meds don't make the pain go away, they just take you to a different place. But everyone around you thinks you're no longer in pain so they feel better.

The older I get," Rafe said, shifting gears to negotiate the curving road that led down from the institute, "the more I'm convinced that the only good, working definition of 'normal' is the fact that you're still walking around outside and not locked up in a padded cell.

Women are the worst. They zero in on some guy.Oh boy, he's the one, gotta get me that one. So they do. Then they spend the rest of their time trying to figure out how to change him. Then if they manage it, they're not all that interested anymore, because guess what? He's not the one anymore.

it is dangerous to unmask images, since they dissimulate the fact that there is nothing behind them).

Nothing is wholly obvious without becoming enigmatic. Reality itself is too obvious to be true.

We need a visible past, a visible continuum, a visible myth of origin to reassure us as to our ends, since ultimately we have never believed in them.

Hell of simulation, which is no longer one of torture, but of subtle, maleficent, elusive twisting of meaning...

There is no more hope for meaning. And without a doubt this is a good thing: meaning is mortal. Appearances, they, are immortal, invulnerable to the nihilism. This is where seduction begins.

Whereas representation attempts to absorb simulation by interpreting it as a false representation, simulation envelops the whole edifice of representation itself as a simulacrum. Such would be the successive phases of the image: it is the reflection of a profound reality; it masks and denatures a profound reality; it masks the absence of a profound reality; it has no relation to any reality whatsoever; it is its own pure simulacrum.

Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere and screened as our life story in some infernal cinema or dispatched as microfilm into the sidereal void.

Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.

All we have left of liberty is an ad-man's illusion.

The Matrix is surely the kind of film about the matrix that the matrix would have been able to produce.