Quotes About Reality

We live in a world of thought, but we think we live in a world of external experience.

Time and again human consciousness fixates, and slams the door on its greatest gift, the open-endedness of infinite possibility. As a result we do not experience reality but merely our concept of it.

Reality lies in the greatest enchantment you have ever experienced.

It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

This-the immediate, everyday, and present experience-is IT, the entire and ultimate point for the existence of a universe.

You can experience a download, but you can't download an experience.

We're all subjective beings and trapped in our own realities and our own biographical stories and physical bodies and our histories - and that's the only way we can experience the world.

All of us experience a gap between our minds and the reality of time—that's why we suffer.

On the road of experience, join in the living day; if there's an answer, it's just that it is that way.

Reality is the completion of experience.

The world ultimately is what we say it is.

The world of immediate experience the world in which we find ourselves living must be comprehended, transformed, even subverted in order to become that which it really is.

If psychoanalysis clarifies some facts of sexuality, it is not by aiming at them in their own reality, not in biological experience.

We live not only in a world of thoughts, but also in a world of things. Words without experience are meaningless.

The world comes to us in an endless stream of puzzle pieces that we would like to think all fit together somehow, but that in fact never do.

Any experience of reality is indescribable!

You can only possess what you experience. Truth to be understood must be lived.

There's the concept that dreams are as important - if not more important - than reality. The attention that one pays to those things in the shadows is very much a part of the Indian experience.

To be happy, one only must be able to confront, which is to say, experience, those things that are. Unhappiness is only this the inability to confront that which is.

We do not go to the theatre like our ancestors, to escape from the pressure of reality, so much as to confirm our experience of it.

That seems to me the greatest American danger we're all in, that we'll bargain away the experience of being alive for the appearance of it.

I had the feeling . . . that my experience was very different from other people's. (Are we all under this illusion?)

I wish everyone could experience being rich and famous, so they'd see it wasn't the answer to anything.

The one reality you can't evade is personal experience.