Quotes About Reality

It is instructive to note that different cultures "discovered" completely different constellations in the sky, a fact that is more consistent with the idea that constellations are a whimsical projection of the human mind than a reflection of astronomic reality.

are we going to teach the best of what we currently know about the world (however provisional such knowledge may be), or shall we decide if the earth is flat or round by majority consensus?

there was a moment when the living room vanished and I saw a great, mushroom-shaped cloud rising into a blue sky. I saw it quite distinctly.

In this age when reality is built on big lies, what better place for truth than fiction?

That is how they stay so white: by refusing to accept blemish or history. Whiteness isn't about being something, it is about being no thing, nothing, an erasure. Covering over the truth with layers of blank reality just as the snowstorm was now covering our tent...(225)

Un sueño roto bien pegado puede volverse aún más bello y sólido. Hasta el punto de hacer añicos los límites de lo real.

Continúa soldando tus sueños a la realidad.

Well hit a broken dream can become even more beautiful and solid. So much to shatter the limits of reality.

Allez, en avant ! Il faut que tout s'accélère. Ce soir j'en ai plus rien à foutre des rêves et de la réalité. Dormir, manger et toutes ces conneries d'être vivant, je veux plus en entre parler, fermez vos gueules, les morts, je me tire. Venez, les étoiles, je vous prends une par une ! Allez, venez vous enfoncer dans ma bouche, je suis vide, j'ai de la place. Hantez, faîtes comme chez vous ! Brillez !

Por qué creemos que vivimos nuestras vidas-dije, al fin-, cuando son nuestras vidas las que nos viven a nosotros?

Morpheus If real is what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then 'real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain

Neo Mr. Wizard. Get me the hell out of here.

But surely clients will know? Aren't clients rational actors with clear demands? No.

An annoying truth is better than a pleasing lie.

Future dreams distract you from present nightmares.

They don't think it be like it is, but it do.

What you build in your dreams build in reality.

Your dreams are ink; reality is the canvas. Paint masterpieces.

In this world of ours, We eat only to cast out, Sleep only to wake, And what comes after all that Is simply to die at last.

Come, see real flowers of this painful world.

by the time you open your eyes, the world might have already changed.

aphorism 129: I would have every thought stoop and touch the Earth but that I already know the impossibility of the effort. A thought seems to have a life of its own and would rather leave itself open to flattering interpretations.

Truth is not a fixed thing. It evolves and morphs and inverts. What is true today may not be true tomorrow.

That's the weirdest thing, by the way. That every person you come across lays down in a bed, under the covers, and closes their eyes at night. Cops, teachers, parents, hot girls, pro ballers, everybody. For some reason it makes people seem so much less real when I look at them.