I was deluded, and I knew it. Worse: my love for Pippa was muddied-up below the waterline with my mother, with my mother’s death, with losing my mother and not being able to get her...

Betrug und Schönheit der Sprache bestehen darin, dass sie das ganze Universum zu ordnen scheint und uns zu der Annahme verführt, wir lebten in Anbetracht eines rationalen Raumes, einer möglichen Harmonie. Doch da Wörter uns...

The mind is just a delusion not a reality. If the materials are perception of our mind, then why we cannot turn into handsome guys and beautiful ladies without putting a hundred grams of makeup...

Things imagined are as real as things seen.

When people are facing real hardships in their lives, they have no time to invent imaginary ones.

Nor does the being hungry prove that we have bread.

Social reality is so complicated that, once you join one team or the other, you become specialized in detecting certain patterns, but you become blind to other patterns.

Her reality was, so to speak, a crowbar to open the lid on what had been sealed, which is the human dimension. The media and politics don’t engage with death very well. And Bush has...

Ecology is beginning to slowly shift focus with tentative explorations of what the world would look like if process, rather than matter were the basis for reality What if we defined a species in terms...

Every time you think of escaping mentally or physically, grab the book that lies inches away from your heart.

We must therefore rediscover, after the natural world, the social world, not as an object or sum of objects, but as a permanent field or dimension of existence.

You don’t have to do this,” Ronan said.”There isn’t anything else, man.””There’s reality.”Kavinsky laughed the word. “Reality! Reality’s what other people dream for you.””Reality’s where other people are,” Ronan replied. He stretched out his arms....

Reality is about two things: nothing and the opposite.

The thing I am attracted to is just good writing and stories that are based somewhat in reality.

The reason that everyone has their own problem is everyone sees something in different side.

When you ask most American parents why they want to have kids, it’s to bring more joy into their lives. So, when you don’t feel that all-encompassing joy, it must be that something is wrong...

On the surface, humans appear to hate conflict, but in reality, they seek it.

People talk about escapism as if it’s a bad thing… Once you’ve escaped, once you come back, the world is not the same as when you left it. You come back to it with skills,...

What was the point of having a situation worthy of fiction if the protagonist didn’t behave as he would have done in a book?

While you’re governing the colony and I’m writing political philosophy, They’ll never guess that in the darkness of night we sneak into each other’s room and play checkers and have pillow fights.

Until I have learned how to express myself as a human, I will not consider speaking as a god.

Reality is what people who lack vision see.

Later she came to realise that under one reality there’s always another. And another one under that.

Men in general are as much affected by what a thing appears to be as by what it is, indeed they are frequently influenced more by appearances than by reality.

It’s hard to see how $75 million makes a dent in that political reality.

We each come to create the reality we believe we deserve.

The laws of physics were the OS of some inconceivable supercomputer called reality.

If you can’t trust me,than there is no point in being yours.

When he first said my diagnosis, I couldn’t believe it. There must be another PTSD than post-traumatic stress disorder, I thought. I have only heard of war veterans who have served on the front lines...

So don’t think in reality I am a singer, I think I am a human being that has sung always all her life, and has learned a little to sing, and has found herself in...

Scripture is the thing I like to share with people more than anything. My prayer reality is quite kooky. I have this very unique dialogue with the Lord. I utilize my own sort of street...

Once upon a time, I, Chuang Tzu, dreamt that i was a butterfly. flitting around and enjoying myself. I had no idea I was Chuang Tzu. Then suddenly I woke up and was Chuang Tzu...

With each day, each hour and every moment of life, no matter how small, I realize that I have found a way of bringing me straight to the one person that I would give everything...

But it was fantasy, and she knew it. It was her fantasy, and the fantasy of everyone else who would look at her and at her pictures; and it would stop being real the moment...

During sex, people are often way too focused on giving or taking to actually just celebrate this moment, be themselves completely, and rejoice in their own realities.

I will never let someone else’s opinion define my reality.

Cultivate an intellectual habit of subordinating one’s opinions and wishes to objective evidence and a reverence for things as they really are.

He could see the tall, peeling yellow building at the periphery of his range of vision. But something about it struck him as strange. A shimmer, an unsteadiness, as if the building faded forward into...

Lyra learns to her great cost that fantasy isn’t enough. She has been lying all her life, telling stories to people, making up fantasies, and suddenly she comes to a point where that’s not enough....

What is meant by ‘reality’? It would seem something very erratic, very undependable-now to be found in a dusty road, now in a scrap of newspaper in the street, now in a daffodil in the...

It was clearly a lot more difficult in the field than in the office, where you could keep your distance and maintain a calculated composure. Being faced with real people was a far tougher call...

The illusion is we are only physical.

Writing is work. It takes a lot of contemplation, concentration, and out-and-out sweat. People tend to romanticize it, that somehow your work appears by benefit of some mystical external force. In reality, to be a...

Everything we think we know is really only perceived by our senses,’ he explains patiently. ‘The sounds we hear are just waves in the air; colors are electromagnetic radiation; your sense of taste comes from...

Smartass Disciple: Please teach me about the truth, master.Master of Stupidity: Hmmm…tell me about your sexperience!

The imaginary is what tends to become real.

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

Reality is as thin as paper, and betrays with all its cracks its imitative character.

Something changed in part of reality — my knees and my hands.What science has knowledge for this?The blind man goes on his way and I don’t make any more gestures.It’s already not the same time,...

You know, we queens loathed rain at the beach, small cocks, and reality, I think. In that order.