c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
Before an observation is made, an object exists in all possible states simultaneously. To determine which state the object is in, we have to make an observation, which “collapses” the wave function, and the object goes into a definite state. The act of observation destroys the wave function, and the object now assumesa definite reality.
— Michio Kaku, Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos
But if I make an observation, what is to determine which state I am in? This means that someone else has to observe me to collapse my wave function.
— Michio Kaku, Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos
For me as a human being, I do not know any sense in which I could claim that the universe is here in the absence of observers. We are together, the universe and us. The moment you say that the universe exists without any observers, I cannot make any sense out of that. I cannot imagine a consistent theory of everything that ignores consciousness. A recording device cannot play the role of an observer, because who will read what is written on this recording device. In order for us to see that something happens, and say to one another that something happens, you need to have a universe, you need to have a recording device, and you need to have us . . . In the absence of observers, our universe is dead.
— Andrei Linde
I know nothing I’m doing is important,' he said. 'Sure, I’m just a waste product of history. Maybe nothing I’m doing is even real, after all. But I was born right here, in this old house, and I look out the window and know what I’m seeing, and I know some people I like to be with, and I like what I do all day long, and maybe that’s all that realness is, anyway
— Robert Penn Warren, A Place to Come To
Self respect and reality is tough rival when it comes to balance it honestly.
— Ankit Samrat
Nevertheless, by dint of his personality and controlling instincts, Jobs was soon playing a stronger role. He spewed out a stream of ideas - some reasonable, others wacky - about what Pixar's hardware and software could become. And on his occasional visits to the PIxar offices, he was an inspiring presence. "I grew up a Southern Baptist, and we had revival meetings with mesmerizing but corrupt preachers," recounted Alvy Ray Smith. "Steve's got it: the power of the tongue and the web of words that catches people up. We were aware of this when we had board meetings, so we developed signals - nose scratching or ear tugs - for when someone had been caught up in Steve's distortion field and he needed to be tugged back to reality.
— Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs
To be ignorant of the sacrifices of others that yielded the blessings I enjoy leaves me exchanging the reality of 'blessing' for the assumption of 'entitlement.' And once that happens, I will forfeit the reality of the former which will destroy the assumption of the latter. And in what terribly dark place will that now leave me?
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Ye cannot know eternal reality by a definition.
— C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce
You do care. You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
We see what we want to see, what we expect to see, instead of what's really there. I don't think we do it on purpose, most of the time. We just get kind of stuck. We start thinking that the way things are is the way they'll always be. But that's not true. It can't be true. Because the world is never still.
— Lauren   Miller, All Things New
You're a shit cake with cum for whipped cream and dynamite for candles.
— Ahmed Mostafa
Enchanted islands are hard to understand,' he said. 'I've always thought that. It worried me even as a child. The trouble is that you can never be sure where the enchantment begins and where it ends.
— Robert Aickman, The Wine-Dark Sea
I carry out sun rituals on the slopes of high mountains. But I am also taboo for myself, untouchable because forbidden.
— Clarice Lispector
It's the geek who gets the girl, not the jock.
— Ahmed Mostafa
It is instead just the grace of a common person turning suddenly real because he is common and human and recoignizable.
— Clarice Lispector
Sky-bound was the mind, Earth-bound the body rests
— Johannes Kepler
The subconscious mind does not care about what we consciously call reality.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman
Reality so often fails when it comes to small, satisfying details, she thought.
— Terry Pratchett, Nation
Reality—there’s nothing but horror in that.
— A.L. Kennedy
Maybe the world isn't enough, or maybe the distinction between the world and fiction is not so clear. Fiction is made from the stuff of the world, after all, which includes dreams and wishes and fantasies and memory. And it is never really made alone, but from the material between and among us: language.
— Siri Hustvedt, A Plea for Eros: Essays
Did your parents care that he was white?""They never met him." I couldn't imagine taking him to meet my dad. Watching them talk to each other would've been tortuous. Also, I never wanted him to see how small our apartment was. In the end, I guess I really didn't want him to know me.With Daniel, it's different somehow. I want him to see all of me.
— Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star
In telling a story one of the most successful devices for easily creating uncanny effects is to leave the reader in uncertainty whether a particular figure in the story is a human being or an automaton and to do it in such a way that his attention is not focused directly upon his uncertainty, so that he may not be led to go into the matter and clear it up immediately.
— Ernst Jentsch, Zur Psychologie des Unheimlichen
She is her. You are not her.
— Verena Coarse
Fiction isn't bad. It is vital. Without commonly accepted stories about things like money, states or corporations, no complex human society can function. We can't play football unless everyone believes in the same made-up rules, and we can't enjoy the benefits of markets and courts without similar make-believe stories. But the stories are just tools. They should not become our goals or yardsticks. When we forget that they are mere fiction, we lose touch with reality.
— Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
Practicing dialogue helps you to cultivate a realness that allows you to face reality on its own terms, not just the terms you’d like it to have in order to remain in your comfort zone.
— Oli Anderson, Dialogue / Ego - Real Communication
When people challenge your ideas, they help you (whether they know it or not).
— Oli Anderson, Dialogue / Ego - Real Communication
To engage in dialogue is to serve others via whatever is real inside you
—  to engage in debate is to ultimately serve the illusions of your ego.
If you doubt your sanity, is that proof?
— James Qualls, A Gathering of Dreams
Dialogue teaches you to listen through your emotions, not to become distracted or distanced from the truth because of them.
— Oli Anderson, Dialogue / Ego - Real Communication
Be real! Fake and phony people never grow.." - Sivaprakash Sidhu
— sivaprakash Sidhu, SivaprakashG, Sidhu, Sivasidhug
The memories: they are the reality.
— Stephen King, Mr. Mercedes
Dialogue unplugs you from your own programming as you become more real
—  debate turns up the voltage and entrenches you more deeply.
Psychologically, our reality derives from the stories we tell ourselves, at least the ones we believe.
— Matthew D. Lieberman
I think maybe they come out into the grounds in nightwear. But no, in typical anorexic stype they have read the fashion magazines literally. This is their version of thin girls in strappy clothes.The girl in the petticoat talks to me, as Emma has done on occsasion, in a rather grand style, as if she is a 'lady' of some substance and I a visiting guest.Do they chat much about clothes? I ask Emma in the car.She shakes her head.So, does she, Emma, see the difference between underwear or nightwear and 'going out' clothes?'Yes,' she says, her voices strained again. 'But it's one of the things you don't know properly when you're ill and confused. You see these pictures and the people in the magazines are real for you.
— Carol Lee, To Die For
Dialogue is about creating awareness through self-observation; it starts from the inside out, not the outside in.
— Oli Anderson, Dialogue / Ego - Real Communication
Life is a dream. I awake it is a reality.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Life is a reality.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I personally feel that the universe behaves more like a song than an equation because math is about static law and music is about dynamic expression.
— R.A.Delmonico
... he had always wondered why the sensations one felt in dreamas were so much more intense than anything one could experience in waking reality—why the horror was so total and the ecstacy so complete—and what was that extra quality which could never be recaptured afterward; the quality of what he felt when he walked down a path through tangled green leaves in a dream, in an air full of expectation, of causeless, utter rapture—and when he awakened he could not explain it, it had just been a path through some woods.
— Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
I've longed for you so, while my connection to the rest of reality has torn. It is that you have lost me. And I have lost you, longing for more than my enough.
— Brandi Gomez, No War Is Anyone's War
The trick, he supposed, was never to lose sight of the theoretical possibility while not for a moment taking the idea remotely seriously.
— Iain M. Banks, Surface Detail
Let each man say what he deems truth, and let truth itself be commended unto God.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Dialogue isn’t a competition to be the smartest or the most correct person in the room
—  it is a collaboration to find the truth.
We have to accept that much of reality is ineffable and so to understand it we can't rely on words alone.
— Oli Anderson, Dialogue / Ego - Real Communication
Dialogue is an opportunity for people to communicate from outside the limitations of their points of view. When we enter a circle of dialogue, there are no labels, only human beings.
— Oli Anderson, Dialogue / Ego - Real Communication
Healing from a loss doesn't happen on schedule.You need to give the head and heart time to catch up with the reality.
— Drishti Bablani, Wordions
Loving a person doesn’t make them who you desire
—  it makes you vulnerable to their reality.
That living has no value - it's what you do with life that gives it worth.
— Michael J. Sullivan, Rise of Empire
I neither revenge nor forgive, I just choose to ignore.
— Irfa Rahat
At times, reality is love’s great challenge. When our old stories and dreams are shattered, our first instinct may be to resist, deny, or cling to the way things were. But if we loosen our grip, often what fills the space is a tender forgiveness and the potential for a new and different kind of love.
— Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
Some are imprisoned by their own perception of reality.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail
It's not about what you're going to say, but it's about what you're going to do about it.
— Jayson Engay
Was 9/11 not the 20th congress of the American Dream?
— Slavoj Žižek
You need persistence in order to maintain the reality that you desire.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail
Imagination is more important than knowledge”, with due respect to Mr. Einstein, I beg to differ! “Imagination is not possible without knowledge.
— I are
An unbearable reality, combined with the impossibility to change it, tends to lead to abstractions for abstraction's sake, and unreality becomes more realistic than reality itself, more true, more convincing, simply because it looks at you with the eyes of justice.
— Romain Gary, White Dog
The only way to see true reality is in solitude. One of the tragedies of human existence is that reality cannot be shared. What's real to you may not be to someone else.
— Tristan Jones, A Steady Trade: A Boyhood at Sea
There is no such thing as, "I trust you a little or I trust you a lot." You either trust, or you do not.
— Mark W Boyer
It is OK to say 'no'.It is OK to say 'I will think about it'.It is OK to say 'I will try'.It is NOT OK to make promises you cannot keep.
— Izey Victoria Odiase
Only today is real.
— Preeti Mishra
Perception is more important than reality. If someone perceives something to be true, it is more important than if it is in fact true.
— Ivanka Trump
Nature is sound in many forms and states of existence.
— João Mendes, Sound: The Fabric of Soul, Consciousness, Reality, and the Cosmos
Don't go out of your way to correct a false assumption if it plays to your advantage.
— Ivanka Trump, Trump Card: Playing to Win in Work and Life
The world nowadays is so perverted. Some people think I'm insane only because they don't understand my point of view.
— Mario Fingarov
I would dream of a place, a place to shelter all my madness.
— J. Limbu, Anemone: The Windflower
sometimes even the worst dreams are better than this reality
— Connor Franta
Truth is elusive, subtle, manysided. You know, Priscilla, there’s an old Hindu story about Truth. It seems a brash young warrior sought the hand of a beautiful princess. Her father, the king, thought he was a bit too cocksure and callow. He decreed that the warrior could only marry the princess after he had found Truth. So the warrior set out into the world on a quest for Truth. He went to temples and monasteries, to mountaintops where sages meditated, to remote forests where ascetics scourged themselves, but nowhere could he find Truth. Despairing one day and seeking shelter from a thunderstorm, he took refuge in a musty cave. There was an old crone there, a hag with matted hair and warts on her face, the skin hanging loose from her bony limbs, her teeth yellow and rotting, her breath malodorous. But as he spoke to her, with each question she answered, he realized he had come to the end of his journey: she was Truth. They spoke all night, and when the storm cleared, the warrior told her he had fulfilled his quest. ‘Now that I have found Truth,’ he said, ‘what shall I tell them at the palace about you?’ The wizened old creature smiled. ‘Tell them,’ she said, ‘tell them that I am young and beautiful.
— Shashi Tharoor, Riot
I had seen the world as either white or black.It is only when I read the pages of her diary that I understood why the sky looked so grey.
— Sanhita Baruah
In reality, love is fluid; it’s a verb, not a noun.
— Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
We always talk about our feelings, neglecting the important matters that have to be look over.
— Irfa Rahat
Where our thoughts dwell, so becomes our reality. Choose wisely!
— Nanette Mathews
And since the portions of both the large and the small are equal in amount, in this way too all things would be in everything; nor can they be separate, but all things have a portion of everything. Since there cannot be a smallest, nothing can be separated or come to be by itself, but as in the beginning now too all things are together. But in all things there are many things, equal in amount, both in the larger and the smaller of the things being separated off.
— Anaxagoras
When we use words like biophotonic matrix, we rarely consider a word can be a reality in itself...
— Anita B. Sulser PhD, We Are One
Reality is not a thought experiment.
— David Amerland, The Sniper Mind: Eliminate Fear, Deal with Uncertainty, and Make Better Decisions
We imagine all these postapocalyptic, class-stratified, new-world-order techno-futures. But actually the real world, the world we live in, this is the dystopia.
— Elan Mastai, All Our Wrong Todays
How good it is when you have roast meat or suchlike foods before you, to impress on your mind that this is the dead body of a fish, this is the dead body of a bird or pig; and again, that the Falernian wine is the mere juice of grapes, and your purple edged robe simply the hair of a sheep soaked in shell-fish blood!And in sexual intercourse that it is no more than the friction of a membrane and a spurt of mucus ejected. How good these perceptions are at getting to the heart of the real thing and penetrating through it, so you can see it for what it is!This should be your practice throughout all your life: when things have such a plausible appearance, show them naked, see their shoddiness, strip away their own boastful account of themselves.Vanity is the greatest seducer of reason: when you are most convinced that your work is important, that is when you are most under its spell.
— Marcus Aurelius
The day is coming when your vision will become a reality
— Sunday Adelaja
You have to shelf your excitement and be realistic about your internal and external strengths and weaknesses. (p.70)
— Injap Sia, Life Principles
We live in a world of banal miracles.
— Jess Walter, Beautiful Ruins
Immerse yourself into self-development, realization of potential and establishing yourself as real person and personality
— Sunday Adelaja
The Lord can cause a vision to turn into reality
— Sunday Adelaja
There is nothing more real than light.
— Seth Adam Smith, Rip Van Winkle and the Pumpkin Lantern
The bright the light is, the darker the shadows are.
— Ashbeel Roy
In reality, commissions rarely solve complicated problems. Therefore, the following question arises: what is worse – to establish a commission knowing it cannot solve a complicated problem, or to believe that the commission will truly solve such a problem?
— Eraldo Banovac
We live with the key purpose of receiving the approval of those around us because we don’t know who we are in reality
— Sunday Adelaja
Then, without postponing anything, build a structure that will allow you to transform this vision into reality
— Sunday Adelaja
Love is the suspension of reality in favor of the sublime.
— Jeffrey Fry
On a subatomic level, it is not possible to determine where anything begins or ends, because there is no true separation of individual energy despite the illusions of the physical realities.
— Russell Anthony Gibbs, The Principle of Oneness: A Practical Guide to Experiencing the Profound Unity of Everything
The real acts of a real devil you know have been made acceptable by the fictitious actions of a nonexistent devil that you do not know.
— Mike Klepper
Public-sector employment — another way to be shielded from reality.
— Mike Klepper
If one is fooled by magic, then isn't the magic as good as real?
— Keith Buckley, Scale: A Novel
It doesn't matter which line you walk, it's gray just like any other
— Robert Vanleeuwen, Among Wolves'
There is no victor in life - for it is a game of expression, not of greed.
— Robert Vanleeuwen
Of everything we must first ask: is it real or not?
— Mike Klepper
This is one of the problems with reality: the extent to which it resembles bad fiction.
— Mark O'Connell, To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death
Just as terror, even in its pre-total, merely tyrannical form ruins all relationships between men, so the self-compulsion of ideological thinking ruins all relationships with reality. The preparation has succeeded when people have lost contact with their fellow men as well as the reality around them; for together with these contacts, men lose the capacity of both experience and thought. The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.
— Hannah Arendt, Crises of the Republic: Lying in Politics, Civil Disobedience, On Violence, and Thoughts on Politics and Revolution
Human beings intuitively divide time into the past, the present, and the future. We perceive the past as immutable and fixed, the present as reflecting actuality, and the future as undefined and nebulous. As time passes, the moment that was once was part of the present becomes part of the past; and a moment of the heretofore previously unrealized future arrives and becomes the new present. The past is a record, the present is real, and the future is an imaginary thought.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Our reality is a blend of the impossible becoming possible.
— R.A.Delmonico
Based upon quantum mechanics, our physical reality should not be solid. Most likely our physical reality is an elaborate illusion within our own consciousness and the collective consciousness of the Universe/God.
— Russell Anthony Gibbs, The Principle of Oneness: A Practical Guide to Experiencing the Profound Unity of Everything
We all want to be the hero but some of us are born to be villains and side characters.
— Zandraga
We are too scared to be real!
— Ramana Pemmaraju
To yearn for love is for kingdom reality to residue in your psyche
— Sunday Adelaja
No man can deny the reality of kingdom of God because its laws are programmed within them
— Sunday Adelaja
Some things look negative while in reality God’s glory is been manifested
— Sunday Adelaja
Perhaps Lila was right: my book—even though it was having so much success—really was bad, and this was because it was well organized, because it was written with obsessive care, because I hadn’t been able to imitate the disjointed, unaesthetic, illogical, shapeless banality of things.
— Elena Ferrante, The Story of the Lost Child
The body of Christ on earth is a wonderful reality
— Sunday Adelaja
Although there are more than six million documents on the Internet addressing the issue of ritual abuse, few take as fair and comprehensive approach as this; many of the writings deny the existence of ritual abuse despite masses of evidence to the contrary. As a consequence, some victims are persistently re-abused psychologically by having to deal with the fact that organised abusers, their defenders and even police refute their realities and dismiss their reports as fantasy or mental illness. - Ritual Abuse & Torture in Australia (introduction)
— Freda Briggs
Not to experience the reality why you are created is not to know God
— Sunday Adelaja
Even if you are perfect the World isn't.
— Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air
If you're thinking about it, then stop. Because it could be the reason you're having a tough day.
— Echo Bliss
Reality's kind of a medium, maybe greater than paper. We all want life to have the same texture that we read about in novels.
— Why The Lucky Stiff, CLOSURE
Reality rarely changes
—  only does our perspective of it. The means to change our surroundings depends on our own ability to shift perspectives.
Different creatures have different eyes. Human eyes (unlike, say, a cat's eyes, or an octopus's) are only made to see one version of reality at a time.
— Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys
Everything is fields, and a particle is just a smaller version of a field.There is a harmonic relationship involved.Disturbing ideas like those of Einstein in 1905 and Feynman Pocono Conference in 1948.Here we go;1) The universe is ringing like a bell. Neil Turok's Public Lecture: The Astonishing Simplicity of Everything.2) The stuff of the universe is waves or fields.3) Scale is relative, not fixed because all of these waves are ratios of one another.4) The geometry is fractal. This could be physical or computational.5) If the geometry is computational then, there is no point in speaking about the relationship of the pixels on the display.
— R.A.Delmonico
Like most modern people, we no longer bothered to make the distinction between events in real life and the dramas of fictional worlds, and so the cliff-hanger that inevitably, reliably ended the hour held just as much or more importance to us as the newspaper that usually went from doorstep to garbage bin unread, and we speculated about the future lives of the characters that populated decayed mansions or desert isles as if they weren't inventions of other human minds.
— Dexter Palmer, The Dream of Perpetual Motion
Whilst passing by the lane where the nests of concubines rested, I saw a little temple.Somebody lit the lamp in prayer. I couldn't decide to bow down to the temple or not to stop there and walk away.Never heard if odalisques have gods too... if yes,are they as pure as ours?
— Himmilicious
when I was a kid I use to put a puzzle together over and over until I got really good at it so one day I turned all the pieces upside down and built it, then I understood the true nature of the puzzle
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
A man who do not understand the reality of divine love is he that don’t know God
— Sunday Adelaja
Heavenly realities are found in the presence of God
— Sunday Adelaja
Love is the only thing in this whole universe, that can make the roses grow out of the swords.
— Akshay Vasu
The world is awash with colours unseen and abuzz with unheard frequencies. Undetected and disregarded. The wise have always known that these inaccessible realms, these dimensions that cannot be breached by our beautifully blunt senses, hold the very codes to our existence, the invisible, electromagnetic foundations upon which our gross reality clumsily rests.
— Russell Brand, Revolution
Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become woman was painful. I wept because I was no longer a child with a child's blind faith. I wept because my eyes were opened to reality.
— Anaïs Nin, Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin
For every purpose there is a plan
— Sunday Adelaja
The radiance of that which wants to be born illuminates the shadows, bringing them into the light of awareness that they may be healed.
— Charles Eisenstein, The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible
Mrs. Arnold," the doctor said, coming around the desk, "we're not going to help things any this way.""What is going to help?" Mrs. Arnold said. "Is everyone really crazy but me?""Mrs. Arnold," the doctor said severely, "I want you to get hold of yourself. In a disoriented world like ours today, alienation from reality frequently--""Disoriented," Mrs. Arnold said. She stood up. "Alienation," she said. "Reality." Before the doctor could stop her she walked to the door and opened it. "Reality," she said, and went out.
— Shirley Jackson, Colloquy
Why do you think posers pose? Because they want to be invited to the dominion of the real. And they know their very desire for it disqualifies them.
— Sam Lipsyte, The Fun Parts
Young ladies ... who fall in love, never consider whether there is sufficient "to make the pot boil" - probably because young ladies in love lose their appetites, and, not feeling inclined to eat at that time, they imagine that love will always supply the want of food.
— Frederick Marryat, The Pirate
If truth is relative, then it’s cousin is anarchy.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
A dream is a distant reality.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Tyler shrugs. "It's a big world, Jo. Who am I to say what is and isn't possible?
— Brandy Nacole, Deep in the Hollow
Great man is the one who is aware of his smallness in this universe! Greatness starts first of all with accepting the reality.
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Your past can either cripple you or empower you. You choose. You can let your feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and shame keep you working jobs that suck your soul. Or you can go out and, with a little luck and guidance, write a new story of your life. It can be post-traumatic stress or it can be post-traumatic growth that defines you. You know as well as I do that in reality you don’t have a choice. You know as well as I do that in reality you don’t have a choice. Your skeletons chase you no matter where you hide. It’s about time to find your inner strength to pull through and make something of yourself.
— Lucas Carlson, Finding Success in Failure: True Confessions From 10 Years of Startup Mistakes
Every engine takes advantage of a difference.
— R. A. Delmonico
In my mind, I rebuild this world hundred times.
— Ladislav Sukovský
All behavior is governed by fields generating forms. Information folds into and out of the holomovement as a form of computational geometry.
— R. A. Delmonico
First partakers of love are always enveloped with the real intention
— Sunday Adelaja
He couldn’t grab reality if he attempted the task with both hands.
— Kelly Moran, Counterbalance
However, questions arise. Are there people who aren't naive realists, or special situations in which naive realism disappears? My theory—the self-model theory of subjectivity—predicts that as soon as a conscious representation becomes opaque (that is, as soon as we experience it as a representation), we lose naive realism. Consciousness without naive realism does exist. This happens whenever, with the help of other, second-order representations, we become aware of the construction process—of all the ambiguities and dynamical stages preceding the stable state that emerges at the end. When the window is dirty or cracked, we immediately realize that conscious perception is only an interface, and we become aware of the medium itself. We doubt that our sensory organs are working properly. We doubt the existence of whatever it is we are seeing or feeling, and we realize that the medium itself is fallible. In short, if the book in your hands lost its transparency, you would experience it as a state of your mind rather than as an element of the outside world. You would immediately doubt its independent existence. It would be more like a book-thought than a book-perception. Precisely this happens in various situations—for example, In visual hallucinations during which the patient is aware of hallucinating, or in ordinary optical illusions when we suddenly become aware that we are not in immediate contact with reality. Normally, such experiences make us think something is wrong with our eyes. If you could consciously experience earlier processing stages of the representation of the book In your hands, the image would probably become unstable and ambiguous; it would start to breathe and move slightly. Its surface would become iridescent, shining in different colors at the same time. Immediately you would ask yourself whether this could be a dream, whether there was something wrong with your eyes, whether someone had mixed a potent hallucinogen into your drink. A segment of the wall of the Ego Tunnel would have lost its transparency, and the self-constructed nature of the overall flow of experience would dawn on you. In a nonconceptual and entirely nontheoretical way, you would suddenly gain a deeper understanding of the fact that this world, at this very moment, only appears to you.
— Thomas Metzinger, The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self
Healthy people learn how to frequently adjust their thoughts to make reality comfortable and realistic.
— Sam Owen, 500 Relationships And Life Quotes: Bite-Sized Advice For Busy People
The missile crisis "was the most dangerous moment in human history," Arthur Schlesinger commented in October 2002 at a conference in Havana on the fortieth anniversary of the crisis, attended by a number of those who witnessed it from within as it unfolded. Desision-makers at the time undoubtedly understood that the fate of the world was in their hands. Nevertheless, attendees at the conference may have been shocked by some of the revelations. They were informed that in October 1962 the world was "one word away" from nuclear war. "A guy named Arkhipov saved the world," said Thomas Blanton of the National Security Archive in Washington, which helped organize the event. He was referring to Vasil Arkhipov, a Soviet submarine officer blocked an order to fire nuclear-armed toredoes in October 27, at the tensest moment of the crisis, when te submarines were under attack bu US destroyers, A devastating response would have been a near certainty, leading a major war. Pg 74, Penguin Publication
— Noam Chomsky, Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance
People believe in everything, except the reality.
— Min Kim
People believe in everything except the reality.
— Min Kim
Life is meant for the living but fit for the dead.
— Isabella Poretsis
We think that we are living when we walk upon the earth but the very moment we “die” there, we wake up here! This life on the other side of the Rainbow Bridge is the real one. We find that our life on earth was just a dream, a dream designed to lead us further and further into love. True love grows and then cannot be destroyed. It grows and grows until it is stronger than death.
— Kate McGahan, Jack McAfghan: Return from Rainbow Bridge
The reality waves itself an assertion as the rose its fragrance; it doesn't require verifiability of it. Indeed, the weak and ignorant minds need that.
— Ehsan Sehgal
Life was complicated, I thought. Not just the living but dealing with the realities and the instinct for order that other people have, that I didn't always grasp.
— Peter Akinti, Forest Gate: A Novel
Portrayals and perceptions are only one in the same to the actor himself.
— VaeEshia Ratcliff-Davis
Language and reality are kept strictly apart—reality is tough, unyielding stuff, and it doesn’t care what you think or feel or say about it. Or it shouldn’t.
— Lev Grossman, The Magicians
We live with this tortured feeling that we must create that which in reality we have the privilege of finding.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
in my dreamsi need not to die everyday to be free
— Roseville Nidea
We ourselves are not an illusory part of Reality
—  rather are we Reality itself illusorily conceived.
She drank the glass with breakfast and poured herself another. By the time she'd gotten Sean off to school (second grade) the edges had been taken off her thoughts and the world seemed as it should be: not too real, but real enough.
— Dexter Palmer, Version Control
Our perspective equals our reality, tweak the perspective and you tweak your reality.
— Sam Owen, 500 Relationships And Life Quotes: Bite-Sized Advice For Busy People
Reality is always richer, more unpredictable than our deductions
— Leonardo Sciascia, To Each His Own
Scale is the new up.
— R. A. Delmonico
What do we really know?Existence is some form of phenomena.There is something rather than nothing.Behaviors are repeatable to some degree of resolution.Everything is moving and the relationships are always changing.There is a principle of organization involved but over time everything tends to disorder.
— R. A. Delmonico
...just because you see something, it doesn’t mean to say it’s there. And if you don’t see something, it doesn’t mean to say it’s not there. It’s only what your senses bring to your attention.
— Douglas Adams
If only people could understand me,And know how I want to live.Trust me, there would be a real smile on my face,Rather than slightly curvy lips.
— Shreeja Manandhar
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You can't let terrible things to happen before you realize the things you could have done.
— Jayson Engay
Reality can really tax your imagination.
— Brooke Gladstone
I wonder if I talk like a dead man. My daughter once came home from school very excited about some lecture -this was years ago, before I died, though just right before- and she said her English teacher had talked about what the dead sound like in Dante. This funny thing about Dante's dead, which is that they know the past, and even the future, but they don't know the present. About the present they have all these questions for Dante. And that somehow is what being alive is, to be suspended in the time. She seemed to feel that really meant something. That and also that the dead know themselves better than the living do.
— Rivka Galchen, Atmospheric Disturbances
The reality and the deception are the ‘perceptions’ as of colors- say of black and white in this multicolored world.
— Priyavrat Thareja
At times, Melete continued, it had seemed to her that this fact was what had created this behavior. Her sense of reality, in other words, had created something outside itself that mocked and hated her. But as I say, she said, those thoughts belong to the world of religious sensibility, which has become in our times the language of neurosis.
— Rachel Cusk, Outline
She knew full well that writers were sex-crazed bohemians who broke the rules and didn't go out to work.
— Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
His mind was constantly thinking about her, while he decided to recite a poem that he had written for her long ago. While he narrated, the words conjured memories like ghosts into the room.
— Sulaiman Sait, THE BLIND TRIAL
I don't write to escape reality, but to show others how to better embrace it. ~ KAL
— Keturah Lamb
But what is real? In the Bible we are constantly being given glimpses of a reality quite different from that taught in school, even in Sunday school. And these glimpses are not given to the qualified; there's the marvel. It may be that the qualified feel no need of them.
— Madeleine L'Engle, Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
Nobody knows what it is like to be you, how can they? Choose your thoughts, words and actions and enjoy what is your life.
— Richard Morin, You Working with You: A Roadmap to Self Mastery
It's easy to dislike the truth for it is ugly and harsh to the naked eye.
— Antonio Kowatsch
The five senses offer us five different ways of shutting out reality. What is intuition and what does it perceive?
— Nanamoli Thera
What’s the point of something virtual if it doesn’t end up being real?
— David Levithan, Every Day
When fiction has become reality, life may turn into a fairy tale or a firestorm. Tina, time has come to pull up one’s socks and start relearning and reassessing living. ("Another empty room")
— Erik Pevernagie
​Belief is exclusively a matter of personal domain. It has nothing to do with reality.
— Abhijit Naskar
True Martial Arts is universal, simple and practical. Anything else is too complex to be used in combat.
— Soke Behzad Ahmadi, Advanced Ryukyu Karate
If one starts to draw comparisons between what is and what is not, it is the poorer qualities of the former that strike you, the impurities, the flaws; in short, you can only really feel safe with nothingness.
— Italo Calvino, The Complete Cosmicomics
Every sin is the result of a colaboration
— Stephen Crane, The Blue Hotel and Other Stories
In every walk of life, you do have the freedom to choose, but that freedom is based on the perception of the world and yourself which you have gained until that moment of life.
— Abhijit Naskar, What is Mind?
It turned out keeping reality bound by mathematical laws was a useful hack preventing the Devil from existing.
— Scott   Alexander
Reality is a construct of the neurons.
— Abhijit Naskar, What is Mind?
Mr. Beeblebrox, sir,' said the insect in awed wonder, 'you’re so weird you should be in movies.;'Yeah,' said Zaphod patting the thing on a glittering pink wing, 'and you, baby, should be in real life.' The insect paused for a moment
— Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
I’m not brave enough to love youThe same wayYou’re not strong enough to take me on.
— Dawn Lanuza, The Last Time I'll Write About You
You are the dreamBut I’ve had wake up calls
— Dawn Lanuza, The Last Time I'll Write About You
I can only begin the process of saving myself when I surrender to the reality that I can’t. And what greater place to surrender that reality than to an infant who surrendered Himself to me so that I might surrender myself to Him.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
No person, collection of people, institution, government or organization of any kind can in any way promise to meet all of my needs for no person, collection of people, institution, government or organization possesses the array of resources necessary to do that. And so, I am left with the reality that either there is a God who can meet all of my needs, or I’ve been stranded in an existence that created me with needs that the existence itself cannot meet.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
The awareness in the moment serves you the most when you are about to create your imagination into a reality.
— Roshan Sharma
You cannot rise beyond the external as well as internal reality unless you understand your own perception.
— Roshan Sharma
Dominique (who, like other Catamount girls, had a cache of pills for every occasion) offered me a bennie- Benzedrine?- to elevate my spirits. Adamantly I told her, No thanks! I wanted to face what's called reality with my eyes open.I've made that a principle for my life. Sometimes I wonder if this has been a wise decision.
— Joyce Carol Oates, Beasts
I clap because I know what will happen when I stop. It's the same thing that happens when I turn off a really good movie - one that I've lost myself to - which is that I'll be thrown back to my own reality and something hollow will settle in my chest. Sometimes, I'll watch a movie all over again just to recapture that feeling of being inside something real. Which, I know, doesn't make any sense.
— Gayle Forman, Just One Day
The locals died and shrivelled with the autumnal leaves as their plastic, seasonal smiles faded with the last of the holidaymakers.
— Moonshine Noire
...few truly understood how disheartening it was to be cut off from worlds so strange and distant they remained to us fantasies rather than distant realities, too surreal and foreign to be touched. Their minds were fixated on what they knew to be real, unable to create the atmospheres of the nebulous realms that lay just beyond our reach, just beyond the dimming horizon, our celestial limits.
— Moonshine Noire
The sensation that allows you to experience the physical reality, when detached from the physical body allows you to realize life beyond the physical reality.
— Roshan Sharma
You are not even seeing most of what's going on in the universe. On top of that, your brain filters out much of what it receives from the environment. So that what you are consciously aware of is only a fractional representation of your universe.
— Abhijit Naskar, Autobiography of God: Biopsy of A Cognitive Reality
In the external reality, an action is required for the manifestation, but in the internal reality, all you need is your presence. Just with the inner presence, things begin to unfold.
— Roshan Sharma
An empowered person will recognize that they have agreed to the reality presented.
— Rebekah Elizabeth Gamble, The Talking Stick Diaries: Embody Your Power
People say that Paris is the city of love, but for me, New York deserves the title more. It's impossible not to fall in love with the city like it's almost impossible not to fall in love in the city.
— Ika Natassa, The Architecture of Love
Everything you perceive, externally, is the manifestation of some internal part of you. If it was not, it would not be present in your perceived reality.
— Tony Warrick
There is in certain ancient things a traceOf some dim essence --More than form or weight;A tenuous aether, indeterminate,Yet linked with all the laws of time and space.A faint, veiled sign of continuitiesThat outward eyes can never quite descry;Of locked dimensions harboring years gone by,And out of reach except for hidden keys.
— H.P. Lovecraft
Have we ever thought to consider that God allows things in our lives to die so that in that death we might come to the precious realization of how little we’ve actually lived in the first place?
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Disappointment focuses on ‘what is not,’ and completely misses the far greater reality of ‘what now is.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
There were no witnesses to what was about to happen. 'Happen' didn't yet exist. Reality was timeless. Space also didn't exist. The distance between two points was immeasurable. The points themselves could be anywhere, hovering and bouncing. Infinity tangled into itself. There was no here and now. Only Being.
— Marcelo Gleiser, The Dancing Universe: From Creation Myths to the Big Bang
Concerning this a man once said:Why such reluctance? If you only followed the parablesyou yourselves would become parables and with that rid of all your daily cares.Another said: I bet that is also a parable.The first said: You have won.The second said: But unfortunately only in parable.The first said: No, in reality; in parable you have lost.
— Franz Kafka, The Complete Stories
We have abolished the real world: what world is left? The apparent world perhaps? . . . But no! with the real world we have also abolished the apparent world.
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols/The Anti-Christ
Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you? I mean, I've always felt like the Katherines dump me right when they start to see what I look like from the inside.
— John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
Memories are truths we have chosen.
— C.E. O'Grady, Soft Inheritance
The privileged, we’ll see time and again, are processed more by people, the masses by machines.
— Cathy O'Neil, Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
I hate that. I hate kids like that so fugging much.
— John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
Reality ground my expectations into microscopic particles.
— Craig Groeschel, Dare to Drop the Pose: Ten Things Christians Think but Are Afraid to Say
If you wish to learn from the theoretical physicist anything about the methods which he uses, I would give you the following piece of advice: Don't listen to his words, examine his achievements. For to the discoverer in that field, the constructions of his imagination appear so necessary and so natural that he is apt to treat them not as the creations of his thoughts but as given realities.
— Albert Einstein
The only sentence that begins with 'I' that's true of me is I'm full of shit.
— John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
... This is a major theme in mathematics: things are what you want them to be. You have endless choices; there is no reality to get in your way.On the other hand, once you have made your choices then your new creations do what they do, whether you like it or not. This is the amazing thing about making imaginary patterns: they talk back!
— Paul  Lockhart, A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form
Mindset will change your reality and destination. Are you ready? If yes, start THINKING victory. Trust me - you will win.
— Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
Reality only exerts its pressure through the needs of everyday life - the need to eat and drink, to get shelter and clothing, to avoid swallowing poison or stepping out of top-storey windows, and the like.
— George Orwell, 1984
I also think of those daily slaughters along the highways, of that death that is as horrible as it is banal and that bears no resemblance to cancer or AIDS because, as the work not of nature but of man, it is an almost voluntary death. How can it be that such a death fails to dumbfound us, to turn our lives upside down, to incite us to vast reforms? No, it does not dumbfound us, because like Pasenow, we have a poor sense of the real, and in the sur-real sphere of symbols, this death in the guise of a handsome car actually represents life; this smiling death is con-fused with modernity, freedom, adventure, just as Elisabeth was con-fused with the Virgin. This death of a man condemned to capital punishment, though infinitely rarer, much more readily draws our attention, rouses passions: confounded with the image of the executioner, it has a symbolic voltage that is far stronger, far darker and more repellent. Et cetera.Man is a child wandering lost—to cite Baudelaire`s poem again—in the "forests of symbols."(The criterion of maturity: the ability to resist symbols. But mankind grows younger all the time.)
— Milan Kundera, The Art of the Novel
By any measure, we live in an extraordinary and extreme time. Language can no longer describe the world in which we live. With antique ideas and old formulas, we continue to describe a world that is no longer present. In this loss of language, the word gives way to the image as the 'language' of exchange, in which critical thought disappears to a diabolic regime of conformity - the hyper-real, the omnipresent image. Language, real place gives way to numerical code, the real virtual; metaphor to metamorphosis; body to disembodiment; natural to supernatural; many to one. Mystery disappears, replaced by the illusion of certainty in technological perfection.
— Godfrey Reggio
There are many to tell what to Learn.But there is no one to teach how to learn.
— Agha Kousar