Reality Quotes

"That's why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it" "The reason they call it the American Dream is because you have to be asleep to believe it" "It's not a matter of what is true that counts but a matter of what is perceived to be true." "It is by no means an irrational fancy that in a future existence we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream" "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend" "What we see is not what we see but what we are." "Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion" "I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity." "The monads are the true atoms of nature." "The actual is the possible in so far as it is determined." "The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are" "Dreams feel real while we're in them. It's only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange" "Looking at the truth, the money never lies" "Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are" "The future is no more uncertain than the present." "To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle." "Even without wars, life is dangerous and broken enough. Even in the ordinary, an ordinary life is filled with ordinary wars." "Science is nothing but perception" "We all have a contract with reality that’s bound by trust; the less realistic our ideals are, the more we tend to misinterpret our surroundings." "When you aren't sincere you need to pretend, and by pretending you limit reality."