Quotes About Reality

My time in the Obama administration turned out to be a deeply disillusioning experience.

What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions.

Knowledge, like experience, is valid in fiction only after it has dissolved and filtered down through the imagination into reality.

I think you just have to be realistic to what the reality is, the way people experience movies.

I really want to make physical things so that the experience is a real experience and not just conceptual.

Our culture is obsessed with real events because we experience hardly any.

What is revealed through the psychedelic experience, I think, is a higher dimensional perspective on reality. And I use 'higher dimensional' in the mathematical sense.

You need your reason to pass through the world and also to experience the nagual, because if you become all nagual, we'll lock you away in an institution.

We live inside our mind. That's all there is. Everything that you experience is not external, it's internal. All your experiences are predicated upon your awareness field.

I want to connect music to its highest power - which is heightening consciousness and affecting people's reality. That can't be done in normal ways, not according to my experience.

Emotion seemed more valid than experience, for I had so much of the former and so little of the latter.

It is the energy projected by an individual's own mind which creates his experience.

What I lacked [in La Nausee] was a sense of reality. I have changed since. I have slowly learned to experience reality.

I prefer hallucinations cause they tend to make more sense than experience.

There is an eighth color that we don't have the sense apparatus to see or experience.

Beyond all experience is the one who is experiencing. Beyond all change is the One who never changes.

It's a disservice, really, when we put celebrated people on a pedestal and don't allow them to be human. It's a very lonely experience for the individual. It's not a sustainable way to live.

For art to be reality, the whole sensuous being must be caught up in the experience.

A Wedding In Haiti is a great experience and its unaffected prose is as true a portrait of complex Haiti as you will find.

Experience is a great spoiler of pleasures.

One of the things that I have always been interested in is the actual experience of people in their lives as opposed to what we think their experience should be.

In my experience ideology is a lot like religion; it's a belief system and most people cling to it long after it becomes clear that their ideology doesn't describe the real world.

You can turn off the song the way you cannot the actual experience.

In terms of experience with the police, everybody got those. It's such a reality.