Quotes About Reality

There is no lie in war or preparation of war that can't be defended.

Reality doesn't happen until you analyze the dots.

It was amazing how often kind-looking people turned out to be crazy. He wondered gravely whether things had reached such bad state that only crazy people attempted commonplace acts of kindness, that the crazy and the kind were one and the same.

Maybe this man experiences another kind of reality where he is here and there, before and after, and he moves from one to the other shatteringly, in a state of collapse, minus an identity, a language, a way to enjoy the savor of the honey-coated toast she watches him eat.

Was he at the movies to see a movie, she said, or maybe more narrowly, more essentially, simply to be at the movies?

She wasn't a child who needed imaginary friends. She was imaginary to herself.

What you see is not what wee se. What you see is distracted by memory, by being who you are, all this time, for all these years.

The game doesn't change the way you sleep or wash your face or chew your food. It changes nothing but your life.

But idealists of course are unpredictable. They tend to be the ones who turn bitter overnight, deceived by lies they've told themselves.

Rocks are, but they do not exist.' After a pause I said, "I came across this statement when I was in college and forgot it until very recently. 'Man alone exists. Rocks are, but they do not exist. Trees are, but they do not exist. Horses are, but they do not exist.'

L'azione è verità, e la verità vacilla quando la guerra finisce e gli abitanti del villaggio sono liberi di tornare ai loro campi. Sopravviviamo, e siamo nuovamente sconfitti.

Only shallow people insist on disbelief. You and I know better. We understand how reality is invented. A person sits in a room and thinks a thought and it bleeds out into the world. Every thought is permitted. And there's no longer a moral or spatial distinction between thinking and acting.

The deeper we delve into the nature of things, the looser our structure may seem to become.

Tutto dovrebbe essere qualcosa. Ma non lo è mai. È la natura dell'esistenza.

Is cyberspace a thing within the world or is it the other way around? Which contains the other, and how can you tell for sure?

I am a bad actor. Not for me or my camera. I see the person, not some idea he wants to make himself into. I'm all idea today. I definitely don't see it. I'm playing the idea of death. Look closely, he said.

It's how the news becomes so powerful it doesn't need TV or newspapers. It exists in people's perceptions. It's something they invent, strong enough to seem real. It's the news without the media.

Once you live in the street, there's nothing but the street.

Reality doesn't happen until you analyze the dots

Being here is a kind of spiritual surrender. We see only what the others see. The thousands who were here in the past, those who will come in the future. We've agreed to be part of a collective perception. This literally colors our vision. A religious experience in a way, like all tourism.

Catastrophe is our bedtime story.

History is the angle at which realities meet.

I needed death in order to believe I was living, an atmosphere of death much more real and personal than anything the newspapers can offer.

For most people there are only two places in the world. Where they live and their TV set.