Quotes About Reality

O mapa astral não é o território, e você não pode comer um menu.

Os nossos órgãos de percepção - os olhos, os ouvidos, o sistema nervoso e o cérebro em si - funcionam em stereo, mas produzem uma visão holográfica do noaso ambiente.

A astrologia é antropocêntrica. Vivemos na Terra, não no Sol. E, se considerarmos o sistema solar como um paradigma para a psique, esse Zodíaco Tropical reflete uma verdade psíquica. A vida que vivemos entre o nosso nascimento e a nossa morte é um tipo de ilusão, ou aquilo que os hindus chamam de maya, ou que Shakespeare chamou 'a matéria de que são feitos os sonhos'. Porém, enquanto estamos aqui, eles parecem muito reais.

Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained.

Those who live on vanity must, not unreasonably, expect to die of mortification.

The paintings seemed to bear the same relation to reality as prayers to the vision of God.

Nobody's as powerful as we make them out to be.

the disciples' illusions of what Jesus could and should do with His power were shattered by the reality of what Jesus actually did with His power, and their personal illusions of commitment-unto-death were shattered by the reality of fear-inspired self-protection.

I was so happy that it filmed in New York not only because it's an amazing city, but also because a lot of people across the world somehow started to think about New York as a dangerous place to be and envisioned it as some war zone after that happened.

Transpiro... Me toco. Siento que mis manos ya no son mis manos... Mi piel ya no es mi piel... Me encuentro en un estado rarísimo.. como si rozara la realidad, pero no pudiendo permanecer dentro de ella. Como si mi persona no estuviese allí, en ese lugar.

Ja, ze lijkt ouder dan ze is.' Je moest eens weten, dacht Claire met een grimmig glimlachje.

I am not ultimately interested in writing fiction. I can't make things up. Or rather, I can only make things up about things that have already happened.

As every reader knows in his or her heart, there is much more to truth than mere fact.

When people are afraid, they will give up almost anything for an illusion of safety.

For life is what animals can teach us: how the present moment is all, and past and future are illusion.

Maerad was pierced by a sudden grief, and briefly forgot all about pretense and masks: the world was too cruel for play.

It seemed to me like the ultimate wrong lesson for a girl her age to be learning. (If she wanted to watch reality TV, I reasoned, why not something like Survivor or The Amazing Race or even American Idol, where winning was based on real skills?) I suppose deep down,

She knows she doesn't. She knows everything her son took from us, because she isn't an idiot. But she survives on delusions, and the more people believe those delusions, the stronger she gets. I'm not interested in helping her feel better. She can fuck right off.

The world wasn't perfect. Life wasn't perfect.

That's what you think, my dear. You think a lot of men want to sleep with me. I used to think that myself." Her voice alters. "Bloody little fool that I was. Men don't want to sleep with me, they want to have slept with me.

I'll live in another world, then.

But there's more to this world than meets the eye, isn't there?

We watch a lot of Discovery Channel, shows like 'The Biggest Loser' and even 'Amazing Race.' You learn a lot about the world, it's fun and nobody's interested in beating anybody down. And then the opposite: I'm a huge fan of 'Survivor.'

But what use was the semblance of power without the substance?