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Quotes About Reality

One man's "magic" is another man's engineering. "Supernatural" is a null word.
~ Robert Heinlein
I came to realize that having a critical grasp of cultist behavior is an important step toward undermining claims of owned reality, and that this was best done from observations on actual human behavior.
~ Robert Jay Lifton
Life is a dream from which we all must wake before we can dream again.
~ Robert Jordan
What is too absurd to be believed is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie.
~ Robert Jordan
If wishes had wings, sheep would fly.
~ Robert Jordan
I've seen men die because they were sure that what should not happen,would not. -Robert Jordan(The eye of the world,Wheel of time)
~ Robert Jordan
the world had to be faced as it was, not as you wished it to be
~ Robert Jordan
To believe a thing is not to make it true.
~ Robert Jordan
Hero! He was no hero! What did a hero get? An Aes Sedai patting you on the head before she sent you out like a hound to do it again. A noblewoman condescending to favor you with a kiss, or laying a flower on your grave.
~ Robert Jordan
Life is a dream, and everyone wakes eventually.
~ Robert Jordan
What was the good of acting out fake stories? Why not go live a few stories of your own?
~ Robert Jordan
Heroes in the stories never had to sleep in haystacks, or under hedges. But it was not easy to pretend, anymore, that he was a hero in a story.
~ Robert Jordan
Truth almost always did come out in the end, but by the end, truth was often so wrapped around with rumors and speculation and absolute lies that most people never did believe it.
~ Robert Jordan
All things change. Until we wake, the dream drifts on the wind.
~ Robert Jordan
A horse leaves footprints, even on this ground. If we find them, we'll know for a fact he was there. If not...well, these are days to make a man think he's seeing things.
~ Robert Jordan
Why do they use it like that? Peace." "When you have never known a thing except to dream," Lan replied, heeling Mandarb forward, "it becomes more than a talisman.
~ Robert Jordan
What they did not see, they could ignore; what they did not see was not really there.
~ Robert Jordan
Hopper sent to him, but you are here too strongly, and too long from your body.
~ Robert Jordan
If wishes were wings, sheep would fly.
~ Robert Jordan
There was a difference between being proud of a grand fireplace in your hall and walking into the flames.
~ Robert Jordan
Truth has more shadings than you might think, and distance often distorts truth into something very different from the facts.
~ Robert Jordan
What is too absurd to believe is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie.
~ Robert Jordan
Life was only a dream, and all dreams had to end. Aiel
~ Robert Jordan
Cualquiera con dos dedos de frente sabía que la sequía y el calor impropio de la estación se debían a la mano del Oscuro tocando el mundo, pero ni siquiera las Aes Sedai daban crédito a las afirmaciones de Elayne y Nynaeve de que esos otros sucesos eran igualmente reales, que las burbujas malignas ascendían desde la prisión del Oscuro a medida que los sellos se debilitaban, y, tras llegar a la superficie, se deslizaban por el Entramado hasta que estallaban.
~ Robert Jordan