Quotes About Reality

My job is about being right. Always. If I'm ever wrong, I must make use of all my means and resources to bend and align reality according to my mistake so that it ceases to be a mistake.

Fiction harmless? Look at religion. Fiction harmless? Look at the oppressed masses content with their lot because they have embraced the lies imposed on them. History itself is just a fiction—a fiction with an army. And reality? Reality is a fiction with an unlimited budget. That's

Such was the extent of his power. His fortune bent reality around it. This reality included people—and their perception of the world, like mine, was also caught in the gravitational pull of Bevel's wealth and warped by it.

know my days are numbered, but not every day is a real number.

Inofensiva, la ficción? Mira la religión. ¿Inofensiva, la ficción? Mira a las masas oprimidas, satisfechas con la suerte que les ha tocado porque se han creído las mentiras que les imponen. La historia misma es una pura ficción; una ficción provista de ejército. ¿Y la realidad? La realidad es una ficción con presupuesto ilimitado. Nada más. ¿Y cómo se financia la realidad? Pues con otra ficción: el dinero. El

What the History is really about lies behind this: man, giant-sized, seen against the background of the entire world, universalized in his conflict with destiny, the gods, and the cosmic order. The medium that is most fertile in showing the true nature of reality is the human mind, remembering, reflective, and fertile most of all when its memory and reflection are put at the service of its dreaming and fantastic side.

Tudo o que está para vir, já aí está.

Dos campos a aldeia parece um amontoado de casas entre as colinas, cuja planta só pode ser reconhecida através das cores. Tudo parece próximo, e quando nos aproximamos não chegamos lá. Eu nunca entendi essas distâncias. Eu sempre estava atrás dos caminhos, tudo corria à minha frente. Eu só tinha a poeira na face. E em lugar nenhum havia um fim.

We know how to speak many falsehoods which resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

How can something that is true in your heart and in your mind not be real?

The most prolific period of pessimism comes at twenty-one or thereabouts, when the first attempt is made to translate dreams into reality.

Here you have learned the theories of life," continued the Headmaster, resuming the thread of his discourse, "but after all, life is not a matter of theories. Life is a matter of facts. It calls on the young and the old alike to face these facts, even though they are hard and sometimes unpleasant. Your problem, for example, is to slay dragons.

What's wrong with running away from reality if it sucks?!

Nature takes no notice of the thoughts of men.

We humans make all that present which is never there, and which is always hurrying past us like the tumble of a stream, an all-important thing.

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people, some of the time, but you can fool yourself anytime you need to badly enough.

The glamour of inexperience is over your eyes," Mr. Rochester answered; "and you see it through a charmed medium: you cannot discern that the gilding is slime and the silk draperies cobwebs; that the marble is sordid slate, and the polished woods mere refuse chips and scaly bark.

Everyone sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are. —Niccolò Machiavelli

The reader may ask how to tell fact from fiction. A rough guide: anything that seems particularly unlikely is probably true.

He never lives in a single reality, but in a shifting shadow-mesh of diplomatic possibilities.

He admires these speculative worlds, that grow up in the crevices between truths.

Just think, she said to herself. I could be living on the Right Bank. I could be married to a senior clerk at the Treasury. I could be sitting with my feet up, embroidering a linen handkerchief with a rambling-rose design. Instead I'm on the rue des Cordeliers in pursuit of a baguette, with a three-inch blade for comfort.

But the law is not an instrument to find out truth. It is there to create a fiction that will help us move past atrocious acts and face our future.