Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

The real world is much smaller than the imaginary

Fantasy is only a state of mind that you can employ when existing in a real context.

As in Rome there is, apart from the Romans, a population of statues, so apart from this real world there is a world of illusion, almost more potent, in which most men live.

Fantasy is the only truth.

One wants to be able to experience being other people, remaking a reality, remaking a life, remaking a certain world.

Dreams are more real than reality itself, they're closer to the self.

In a story, you can turn to the front and begin again and everyone lives once more. That doesn't work in real life. And I love my real people the most.

One of the beauties of being an artist is that you can create a whole new world, with circumstances that are better in your invented world than they are in the real world.

The world of physics is essentially the real world construed by mathematical abstractions, and the world of sense is the real world construed by the abstractions which the sense-organs immediately furnish. To suppose that the "material mode" is a primitive and groping attempt at physical conception is a fatal error in epistemology.

He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.

I'm trying to suggest a kind of Middle Earth, in Tolkien terms. It's a contiguous world; it's like ours but different.

I kind of like the idea of taking a concept and going all the way with it, even if it's not completely plausible. It's something that I like about making movies. You have a concept that maybe would not work in real life, but you can make it work in the world you're creating.

The world is about the way in which our dreams intersect with our real life. Endlessly, the world of the imagination changes the world.

I could invent another world. I'm not terribly keen on this one.

Good fiction creates its own reality.

His imagination was always more real than the reality of daily life.

Fantasy and reality often overlap.

Brooklyn was a dream. All the things that happened there just couldn't happen. It was all dream stuff. Or was it all real and true and was it that she, Francie, was the dreamer?

Daydreaming subverts the world.

We're making it up. The world, the universe, life, reality. Especially reality.

Write whatever way you like. Fiction is made of words on a page; reality is made of something else. It doesn't matter how "real" your story is, or how "made up": what matters is its necessity.

What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real.

Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.

I'm not here now. This isn't happening. You're just visiting a dream of mine.