Like” and “like” and “like”–but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing?

The reality shows are getting worse and worse. They’re out of control and have been for some time.

Of course the theologians fought the facts found by the geologists, the scientists, and sought to sustain the sacred Scriptures. They mistook the bones of the mastodon for those of human beings, and by them...

I lived a normal life for a number of years. I had kids. I lived up on a farm in Gloucestershire in rural England, and just kind of got back to reality again.

The worst fear of the race yes, the world suddenly transformed into a senseless nightmare, horrible dissolution of things. Nothing compares, even oblivion is a sweet dream. You understand why, of course. Why this peculiar...

I remember, when I was about ten years old, working out that I would be thirty-six in the year 2000. It seemed so far away, so old, so unreal. And here I am, a fucked,...

A man breaking his journey between one place and another at a third place of no name, character, population or significance, sees a unicorn cross his path and disappear. That in itself is startling, but...

It’s funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

The man who is contented to be only himself, and therefore less a self, is in prison. My own eyes are not enough for me, I will see through those of others. Reality, even seen...

NASA had to adjust to that cruel reality.

An innocent mind is a rarity. Society corrupts us all, even if only a little.

The world’ is man’s experience as it appears to, and is moulded by, his ego. It is that less abundant life, which is lived according to the dictates of the insulated self. It is nature...

The most risky liability of your life is ‘the unspoken truth’.

While he wanted to teach me what he knew, I wanted him to see what it all looked like for me—perhaps love is a process of finding a common vision of reality.

How much of what is there do you allow yourself to see?

It takes drive and focus to move from potential to reality.

Yes, that’s how it was then, that part there we called ‘France’”. I was filled with the deep affection of nostalgia- and then I opened my eyes.

Superior poets say what they really feel. Mediocre poets say what they decide to feel. Inferior poets say what they think they should feel.

The liturgy of the Eucharist is best understood as a journey or procession. It is the journey of the Church into the dimension of the Kingdom. We use the word ‘dimension’ because it seems the...

The art of meditation is a way of getting into touch with reality, and the reason for it is that most civilized people are out of touch with reality because they confuse the world as...

Robinson Crusoe, the first capitalist hero, is a self-made man who accepts objective reality and then fashions it to his needs through the work ethic, common sense, resilience, technology, and, if need be, racism and...

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Without God, reality is madness. Reason will tell you so. You either madly trust in God, or you trust in a world gone mad without him.

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

Faculty X is simply that latent power in human beings possess to reach beyond the present. After all, we know perfectly well that the past is as real as the present, and that New York...

Music and art and culture is escapism, and escapism sometimes is healthy for people to get away from reality. The problem is when they stay there.

You can’t keep snakes in your backyard and expect them only to bite your neighbors. You know, eventually those snakes are going to turn on whoever has them in the backyard.

It was Valentine’s Day and I had spent the day in bed with my life partner, Ketel One. The two of us watched a romance movie marathon on TBS Superstation that made me wonder how...

My goal is to create a metaphor that changes our reality by charming people into considering their world in a different way.

I have heard all that you have had to say to me on your problems.You ask me what to do about them.It is my view that your real problem is that you are a member...

Ply the original path that life has laid out for you. Don’t let it get shrouded with weeds

I just have this deep kind of connection to reality of being like… in a way, I feel like a dock worker. I want to stay in connection with my dock-worker side, ’cause that’s how...

Our task and challenge as human beings is to appreciate, in the same instant, both the infinite significance and absolute insignificance of life.

What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not.

If school principals have given up on the important things and are focusing on discipline, they are creating a certain, diluted reality. In an organization that functions properly, discipline should be a marginal issue.

Notice, when looking at quotes of each person – you’ll never agree with every single quote of anybody’s. We all have a different view of reality, of what is meaningful. This is why we can...

With my sunglasses on, I’m Jack Nicholson. Without them, I’m fat and 60.-Jack Nicholson

It’s always comforting to tell yourself things are going to be alright, because even if a part of you senses that you’re lying, it’s comforting to shut it out- shut out reality and pretend- because...

Fate is a future you didn’t try hard enough ti change. If you want things to go your way, being smart and being strong are helpful, but you still have to work your ass off.

Do not ill-treat or take advantage of foreigners who are living in your land. Treat them as you would a fellow- brother, and love them as you love yourselves. Remember that you were once foreigners...

The digital world, the world of virtual reality … is going to be part of the embrace of this great, new cooperative venture.

Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality.

Because memories fall apart, too. And then you’re left with nothing, left not even with a ghost but with its shadow. In the beginning she haunted me, haunted my dreams, but even now, just weeks...

My space chums think reality was once a primitive method of crowd control that got out of hand. In my view, it’s absurdity dressed up in a three-piece business suit.

Reality is a crutch for people who can’t handle science fiction.

It’s all about the script. Reality is key to me and less cutesy.

Your imagination is a wonderland full of realities.

Scientific reality is as different from lived reality as a slide rule is from a platypus.

Come to me in my dreams, and thenBy day I shall be well again.For then the night will more than payThe hopeless longing of the day.