Quotes About Reality

Who you gonna believe, bitch? Me? or your lying eyes?

if anybody says he can think about quantum problems without getting giddy, that only shows that he has not understood the first thing about them.

It is wrong," he told his colleagues repeatedly, "to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is"—which is the territory classical physics had claimed for itself. "Physics concerns what we can say about nature."290

Truth is what your contemporaries let you get away with.

The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that.

But you cannot urge national political renewal on the basis of descriptions of fact. You have to describe the country in terms of what you passionately hope it will become, as well as in the terms of what you know it to be now. You have to be loyal to a dream country rather than to the one to which you wake up every morning. Unless such loyalty exists, the ideal has no chance of becoming actual.

Taylor and I both pride ourselves on having escaped that collapsed circus tent of epistemology—those acres of canvas under which many of our colleagues still thrash aimlessly about.

Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.

Maybe we're just seeing a tiny corner of reality—the corner we want to see. But if somehow we could "turn" and look at what's behind us—we might see something so strange, we wouldn't understand it in a million years.

Your imagination must, to some extent, be found in a realm beyond reason because it begins with imagining a future reality: the self that you might become.

Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.

What is a ghost? Something dead that seems to be alive. Something dead that doesn't know it's dead.

Verse. Chorus. Verse. I'm sorry. We know how it works. The world is no longer mysterious.

You are here. You are here. You're still right here.

These are the dreams we should be having. I shouldn't have to clean them up like this.

a big band sound that makes you feel like everything's okay, a feeling that lasts for one song maybe, the parentheses all clicking shut behind you.

What is a ghost? Something dead that seems to be alive. Something dead that doesn't know it's dead.

It could have been so beautiful . . . how it was and how it will be, memory and fantasy

I talk to you as if you're really there.

Liberation is not a state, you cannot achieve it and there is no future.

Events happen. Or they don't.

We see only a part of the surface of things. The rest will be forever hidden from us, to be appreciated for its felt but unfathomed presence.

This has to be a Rule because there can be no choice here. We have to accept that we are the way we are—the result of everything that has happened. It all just is.

Imagination creates reality.