Quotes About Reality

The reality is not exactly what the song started out to be, but it's not a bad song.

realities that kept the music silent, the dreams in a box.

No single piece of evidence can "prove" the existence of any historical event.

Those four effects described above—shaping a male-dominant view of sexuality, initiating victims, contributing to difficulty in separating sexual fantasy and reality, and providing a training manual for abusers—are at work just as much with men who have not engaged in activities that meet the legal definition of rape. Here we have to let go of a comforting illusion—that there is some clear line between men who rape and men who don't, between the bad guys and the good guys.

Perceptions of the world and of other actors diverge from reality in patterns that we can detect and for reasons that we can understand.

The common saying is "I'll believe it when I see it," but human perception is more accurately characterized as "I'll see it when I believe it." In international politics where expectations of hostility are common, the results are often unfortunate.

vision, without which we perish, is required to open us to willingness to use what we know and to work to extract hard reality from a dream.

Not much happens without a dream. And for something great to happen, there must be a great dream. Behind every great achievement is a dreamer of great dreams. Much more than a dreamer is required to bring it to reality; but the dream must be there first.

As a society, we seem to be flying too close to the flame, looking for stimulation—we are bored audiences more attuned to fantasy than to reality, in danger of falling completely into the abyss about which Nietzsche warned us.

I know there are a lot of readers that think I've got a very crappy marriage just because of the things going on with Rick and Lori but there's really nothing that's been like a mirror. I'm just making this stuff up.

You kill -- You die." That was probably the most naive thing I've ever said. The fact is -- in most cases, NOW, the way things are -- you kill -- you LIVE.

Life hurts a lot more than death. —Jim Morrison

It wasn't who a person believed himself to be or what he pretended he would do in a given situation. It was what he did when he got there that defined him.

Examine everything; not all is as it seems or as people tell you.

Sometimes the imagination could be even crueler than the bone saw.

That means that those beings must live something like a million times faster than we do! And

The conclusion of both modern physics and depth psychology is that things are not what they seem. What we experience as normal reality—about ourselves and nature—is only the tip of an iceberg that arises out of an unfathomable abyss. Knowledge of this hidden realm is the province of the Magician, and it is through the Magician energy that we will come to understand our lives with a degree of profundity not dreamed of for at least a thousand years of Western history.

In other words, what we know for sure is entirely limited, and all the rest is basically opinion.

I wish I were there to watch the operations and changes; but alas! I am in Kansas scratching for a living.

That's the way it is with Appian; things that appear ridiculous on average just might have happened, so they cannot be entirely dismissed.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

We're all dying. That's what defines the condition of living." -Winston S. Churchill

Our thoughts have an order, not of themselves, but because the mind generates the spatio-temporal relationships involved in every experience.

Today's preoccupation with physical theories of everything takes a wrong turn from the purpose of science - to question all things relentlessly. Modern physics has become like Swift's kingdom of Laputa, flying absurdly on an island above the earth and indifferent to what is beneath.