Quotes About Reality

Science is not a theory of reality, but a method of inquiry.

We encounter a startling "Fitness-Beats-Truth" (FBT) theorem, which states that evolution by natural selection does not favor true perceptions—it routinely drives them to extinction. Instead, natural selection favors perceptions that hide the truth and guide useful action.

I loved it, but social reality impeded. Now I wander in here at 9 in the morning or so, and come back for a while in the afternoon. I am a very lenient boss.

Real life. The greatest interactive fiction of them all.

What the Trinidad Guardian had in 1967 called "the most empty diplomatic threat in history" had now become a reality. Two months after British economic aid to Anguilla had stopped because of the end of the Interim Agreement, the British decided to stop all economic aid.

A lady doctor in the foreground, black horn-rims and white lab coat, suddenly cried, "You people ought to be ashamed of yourselves! Do you realize what you're doing to the reality concepts we're trying to instill in these people? How do you expect them to differentiate between illusion and reality when you do something like this ?"

That's a geometric figure, that bird, he don't exist without an angle.

Well, she was dead, and there was no use crying over spilt milk.

Married or unmarried, young or old, poet or worker, you are still a dreamer, and will one time know, and feel, that your life is but a dream.

But there are no happy endings, because if things are happy they have not ended.

For only with your help shall They come to see–and with no more Than average daily terror– All things for what they are, All things for what they are.

I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale.

Confused by thoughts, we experience duality in life. Unencumbered by ideas, the enlightened see the one Reality.

The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation.

Belief is a toxic and dangerous attitude toward reality. After all, if it's there it doesn't require your belief- and if it's not there why should you believe in it?

Nobody asked to be born. Life is hard, kinda.

Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me. I escape, one way or another. No more walls.

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

This fast life soon shatters, cause after all the lights and screams, nothing but my dreams matter.

Animation isn't the illusion of life; it is life

Suffer what there is to suffer. Enjoy what there is to enjoy. Regard both suffering and joy as facts of life.

Where you stand, where you are, that's what your life is right there, regardless of how painful it is or how enjoyable it is. That's what it is.

Life isn't as serious as the mind makes it out to be.

Life ain't all beer and skittles, and more's the pity; but what's the odds, so long as you're happy?