Quotes About Reality

This was the tree, and it seemed to me standing there to resemble those men, the giants of your childhood, whom you encounter years later and find that they are not merely smaller in relation to your growth, but that they are absolutely smaller, shrunken by age. In this double demotion the old giants have become pigmies while you were looking the other way.

Sentivo che non ero, non ero mai stato e non sarei mai stato una parte vivente di questo mondo straordinariamente solido e profondamente significativo che mi circonda.

The more real you get the more unreal the world gets.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.

Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.

Sometimes you wonder, I mean really wonder. I know we make our own reality, and we always have a choice, but how much is preordained? Is there always a fork in the road, and are there two preordained paths that are equally preordained? There could be hundreds of paths where one could go this way or that way -- there's a chance, and it's very strange sometimes.

Living is easy with eyes closed Misunderstanding all you see It's getting hard to be someone But it all works out It doesn't matter much to me.

Everything is true and not true about everything. That's one thing I've learned.

Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see

Es tan ciego porque sólo ve lo que quiere ver.

Lako je živjeti zatvorenih o?iju, ne shva?aju?i ono što vidiš...

to depict reality - that is as much an artistic vision as a scientific sensibility

That aspect of reality of most central concern and importance to human beings is, of course, human beings. And in order to survive and succeed in his fullest capacity as a human being, man must be able to identify his own nature (including his means of knowledge) as well as the nature of the world (or universe) in which he acts.

The truth is more important than the facts. FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT (1867–1959)

You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can't please all of the people all of the time".

Only the fakes survive.

Man seeks to form for himself, in whatever manner is suitable for him, a simplified and lucid image of the world, and so to overcome the world of experience by striving to replace it to some extent by this image.

Maailmakõiksus siin meie ümber on paljas maailmakõiksus, ei kehvem ega ülevam sellest, mis laotub pealinna hurtsikute ja üürimajade ja templite ja kontorite kohal. Maailm on maailm, elu on elu, kõikjal seesama.

The mind is a universe and can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

The mind is its own place, and in itself / Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. / What matter where, if I be still the same...

A form of self-delusion.

The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.

A system of morality that is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception that has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

I don't know if that's philosophy or if that's something else, but to me it [digital filming] has an emotional feeling , that this materiality, the loss of the materiality.