In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
Alan W. WattsLyra learns to her great cost that fantasy isn’t enough. She has been lying all her life, telling stories to people, making up fantasies, and suddenly she comes to a point where that’s not enough. All she can do is tell the truth. She tells the truth about her childhood, about the experiences she had in Oxford, and that is what saves her. True experience, not fantasy - reality, not lies - is what saves us in the end.
Philip PullmanTag: reality life-lessons
Adults...struggle desperately with fiction, demanding constantly that it conform to the rules of everyday life. Adults foolishly demand to know how Superman can possibly fly, or how Batman can possibly run a multibillion-dollar business empire during the day and fight crime at night, when the answer is obvious even to the smallest child: because it's not real.
Grant MorrisonTag: reality children literature fiction comics adults superman batman superheroes
If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.
Herbert SteinTag: reality meaning sense end forever
Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use.
The mere presence in the dictionary of a word like 'living' does not mean it necessarily has to refer to something definite in the real world.
Tag: science words reality suffering living tools dictionary
it is what it is
Hank KnabeTag: reality
Out of the unreal shadows of the night comes back the real life that we had known
Oscar WildeThings aren't like this," he kept repeating. "It shouldn't be this way." As if he had access to some other plane of existence, some parallel, "right" universe, and had sensed that our time had somehow been put out of joint. Such was his vehemence that I found myself believing him, believing, for example, in the possibility of that other life in which Vina had never left and we were making our lives together, all three of us, ascending together to the stars. Then he shook his head, and the spell broke. He opened his eyes, grinning ruefully. As if he knew his thoughts had infected mine. As if he knew his power. "Better get on with it," he said. "Make do with what there is.
Salman RushdieTag: reality illusion pragmatism parallel-universe
You can only get outside yourself by looking inside.
Tonya HurleyTag: reality self true personal ghostgirl
منذ ان كان العاقل قاضيٍ بعدل السلطة ماضٍ فهو اليوم ماض بزمن مجنون راضي.
Sam HoussamiTag: reality
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