Reality Quotes

Everything you can imagine is real.

The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.

Rastafari not a culture, it’s a reality.

Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is, and not so much a matter of being real.

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

We are living in a computer-programmed reality, and the only clue we have to it is when some variable is changed, and some alteration in reality occurs. We have the overwhelming impression that we were reliving the present – deja vu.

To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.

The two basic topics which fascinate me are “What is reality?” and “What constitutes the authentic human being?”

The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.[La interpretación de nuestra realidad con esquemas ajenos sólo contribuye a hacernos cada vez más desconocidos, cada vez menos libres, cada vez más solitarios.]

The “punch” of a truly weird tale is simply some violation or transcending of fixed cosmic law — an imaginative escape from palling reality — hence phenomena rather than persons are the logical “heroes”.

Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.[La réalité fournit quelquefois des faits si romanesques que l’imagination elle-même ne pourrait rien y ajouter.]

Reality even when it is sad is better than illusions. Illusions are at the mercy of any winds that blow. Real happiness must come from within, from a fixed purpose and faith in one’s fellow men.