Quotes About Reality

all television news programs begin, end, and are somewhere in between punctuated with music...It is there, I assume, for the same reason music is used in theater and films - to create a mood and provide a leitmotif for the entertainment...as long as the music is there as a frame for the program, the viewer is comforted to believe that there is nothing to be greatly alarmed about; that, in fact, the events that are reported have as much relation to reality as do scenes in a play.

pseudo-event," by which he means an event specifically staged to be reported—

Lies have not been defined as truth nor truth as lies. All that has happened is that the public has adjusted to incoherence and been amused into indifference.

Physical reality seems to recede in proportion as man's symbolic activity advances.

The cosmos offers no absolute confirmations

La inteligencia se define fundamentalmente como nuestra capacidad para captar la verdad de las cosas.

The new focus on the image undermined traditional definitions of information, of news, and, to a large extent, of reality itself.

Meintjes seems to be concerned not only with the moment of reality, but the preparation before it, and the length of time that lies beyond it… It is the resulting quality of timelessness that is so strangely moving

Americans, particularly after World War II, tended to romanticize war because in World War II our cause was the cause of humanity, and our soldiers brought home glory and victory, and thank God that they did. But it led us to romanticize it to some extent.

If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably havenÂ't been born yet.

Somente no mundo real do céu, descobri um uso para o faz de conta. Um benefício da ficção: leva sua mente para fora da realidade, quando a sua realidade é perturbadora.

Lying is about controlling someone else's reality, hoping that what they don't know won't hurt you.

We're just fragile machines programmed with a false sense of our own importance. And every now and then the universe sends a reminder that we don't really matter to it...

Intimacy is sharing your reality with someone else and knowing you're safe, and them being able to share their reality with you and also be safe.

sin-confess-sin-confess-sin-confess-and-sin-again cycle does not deal with all of reality. It

How can you escape from your own conscience, the reality of your own actions?

As soon as you start talking about mystique, you have none.

And there ain't nothin' like a friend who can tell you you're just pissin' in the wind. -- Neil Young, "Ambulance Blues" from "On the Beach" (1974)

As soon as you start talking about mystique, you have none. -Neil Young

I would be a huge hypocrite if I didn't tell you that at one time in my life I thought the way that you made music was you got on a major label and you got famous.

It seemed incredible that it could be the same road, the same asphalt, that they had traveled so many times together. You thought that you were the permanent part of your own experience, the net that held it all together—until you discovered that there were many selves, dissolving into one another so quickly over time that the buildings and the trees and even the pavement turned out to have more substance than you did.

You thought that you were the permanent part of your own experience, the net that held it all together—until you discovered that there were many selves, dissolving into one another so quickly over time that the buildings and the trees and even the pavement turned out to have more substance than you did.

Truth, after all, does not ask for our permission or require our concurrence. It simply is. With or without us.

described as indexical. What he meant was an image made by the physical being of the object, not a line drawing.