Reality Quotes

"As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is." "Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth." "Belief creates the actual fact" "The idea that complex systems with skin in the game are antifragile is crucial to building a sound view of reality" "Never trust the words that you read; always trust the reality behind them" "Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. " "Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners." "Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others." "The past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is" "You can spend your whole life imagining ghosts, worrying about the pathway to the future, but all there will ever be is what’s happening here" "I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way." "Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man" "To the Lighthouse was then an evocation of childhood; it was also an inquisition into the nature of reality." "Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it." "Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world." "The scientists of today have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality." "Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake" "Nothing in life is promised except death." "A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work." "It's easy to be a tough guy when no one's going to call you on it."