Quotes About Reality

He breathed in and felt that the air existed, certainly, as it circulated in and filled out two lunglike shapes, but what did that mean? One could have an entire face - something he wasn't sure he had right now - and still not exist.

Mental health is the ability to deny reality and repress feelings within the boundaries and parameters established by one's peer group(s). — Christopher S. Hyatt, Ph.D.

Riegl also solved a paradox of academic doctrine, wedded to the ideal: its tendency to summon its own subversion by reality, or by lowly life. Now that the story line is the movement from touch-based art to vision-based art, the future is open-ended, for art can always be further intellectualized without worrying about a surfeit of sublimity or transcendence, just as low subject matter does not threaten to drag art back into the weeds of practical life.

Just because you've said it..doesn't make it true

When affirmation and negation came into being, Tao faded. After Tao faded, then came one-sided attachments.

I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?

Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?

How can you not have any regrets? It's impossible. No regrets? Bullshit. I don't believe anybody who tells me that.

I came up with a new game-show idea recently. It's called The Old Game. You got three old guys with loaded guns onstage. They look back at their lives, see who they were, what they accomplished, how close they came to realizing their dreams. The winner is the one who doesn't blow his brains out. He gets a refrigerator.

Life is rarely about what happened; it's mostly about what we think happened.

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

In and of itself, nothing really matters. What matters is that nothing is ever in and of itself.

What makes them even more astonishing is that there is compelling evidence that the only time quanta ever manifest as particles is when we are looking at them.

and that time itself is a fourth physical dimension.

People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next.

You are not special. You're not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else. We're all part of the same compost heap. We're all singing, all dancing crap of the world.

I hate how I don't feel real enough unless people are watching.

You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.

Here in your mind you have complete privacy. Here there's no difference between what is and what could be.

Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn't glitter and shine.

The unreal is more powerful than the real.... Because it's only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die.

You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everything else.

This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.

The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. You can change the way people live their lives. That's the only lasting thing you can create.