Quotes About Reality

In the civilized countries I believe there are no witches left, nor wizards, nor sorceresses, nor magicians ~ The Witch of the North

No, indeed. I don't know anything. You see, I am stuffed, so I have no brains at all," he answered sadly.

I have always thought myself very big and terrible; yet such little things as flowers came near to killing me

No; you are all wrong," said the little man, meekly. "I have been making believe." "Making believe!" cried Dorothy. "Are you not a Great Wizard?

If you think of some dreadful thing, it's liable to happen, but if you don't think of it, and no one else thinks of it, it just can't happen.

That wall, explained the Shaggy Man, is what is called an optical illusion. It is quite real while you have your eyes open, but if you are not looking at it the barrier doesn't exist at all. It's the same way with many other evils in life; they seem to exist, and yet it's all seeming and not true.

Of course you don't know. Nobody knows why; we only know it's so, and can't tell why it's so.

That wall, explained the Shaggy Man, is what is called an optical illusion. It is quite real while you have your eyes open, but if you are not looking at it the barrier doesn't exist at all. It's the same way with many other evils in life; they

I think you had better learn to control that imagination of yours,Anne, if you can't distinguish between what is real and what isnt.

The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them.

Il guaio delle fantasticherie è che arriva sempre il momento in cui bisogna cancellarle. Ed è un gran brutto momento.

I never was in love with him. I only imagined I was. You know that. You know I'd rather be your wife in our house of dreams and fulfillment than a queen in a palace.

Ask anyone who has been in a love relationship for a while: nothing is perfect.

When I wake you're never there, but when I sleep you're everywhere.

Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is.

Tell me what we had was real, I whisper.

A spreadsheet for an innovative idea reports the mathematical relationship between made up numbers. You can't cash a spreadsheet.

In a way, everybody is wounded from the wound of the real. This phenomenon is similar to madness. The mad person is wounded by his or her distorted relationship to the real.

It's not what I think? If it looks like a duck and walks like a duck..." I imply with a shrug "...well then you know what they say.""Nothing hap?""Quack!

People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.

If we are honest - and scientists have to be - we must admit that religion is a jumble of false assertions, with no basis in reality.

No amount of belief makes something a fact.

Like true philosophers I've come to believe that religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown after proper education.

Faith does not offer a strong link between our beliefs and actual states of the world.