Alan Moore Quotes

If you go to Paris you know more about reality than people who don't. If you smoke DMT you know more about reality than people who don't.

Reality became for me a problem after my experience with LSD. Before, I had believed there was only one reality, the reality of everyday life. Just one true reality and the rest was imagination and was not real. But under the influence of LSD, I entered into realities which were as real and even more real than the one of everyday. And I thought about the nature of reality and I got some deeper insights.

Consensus reality seemed like a dull, dead-end street compared to the intense, mutable reality of visions or whatever they were - neurological misfires. I expected life to be full of sudden, inexplicable surprises. When these things didn't happen for a while, life seemed dull and painful.

For me, what all these years of psychedelic taking came to was a new model of how reality works, a new model of what the world is.

What you see is what you see.

People live their lives bound by what they accept as correct and true. That’s how they define Reality. But what does it mean to be “correct” or “true”? Merely vague concepts… Their Reality may all be a mirage. Can we consider them to simply be living in their own world, shaped by their beliefs?

There are periods of history when the visions of madmen and dope fiends are a better guide to reality than the common-sense interpretation of data available to the so-called normal mind. This is one such period, if you haven't noticed already.

How different would our perception of reality be if... we discarded the mundane events that cannot coexist with our dreams?

We control matter because we control the mind. Reality is inside the skull.

Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.

It depends on which reality you take and which reality I take.” (p. 318).

The conception of objective reality ... has thus evaporated ... into the transparent clarity of mathematics that represents no longer the behavior of particles but rather our knowledge of this behavior.

It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.

The only thing that is fundamental (real) is consciousness itself; all else is virtual- i.e., a result of an exchange of information within consciousness.

Taking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life. LSD shows you that there’s another side to the coin, and you can’t remember it when it wears off, but you know it. It reinforced my sense of what was important—creating great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could.

I don't pretend reality is the same for everyone.

What one commonly takes as 'the reality,' including the reality of one's own individual person, by no means signifies something fixed, but rather something that is ambiguous - that there is not only one, but that there are many realities, each comprising also a different consciousness of the ego.

Reality is what we want it to be or what we do not want it to be, but it is not our wanting or our not wanting that makes it so.

A reality completely independent of the spirit that conceives it, sees it, or feels it, is an impossibility. A world so external as that, even if it existed, would be forever inaccessible to us.

Reality is a concept that depends largely upon where you point your face.

The world that you can go walk outside and walk around the block. That's reality. The reality that's being talked about is something else entirely.

No doubt the world is entirely an imaginary world, but it is only once removed from the true world.

We live on two levels ... the realistic level and the fantastic level, and which is the real one, really?

You believe that reality is something objective, external, existing in its own right. You also believe that the nature of reality is self-evident. When you delude yourself into thinking that you see something, you assume that everyone else sees the same thing as you. But I tell you, Winston, that reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind, which can make mistakes, and in any case soon perishes: only in the mind of the Paty, which is collective and immortal.

You say they create their own reality," said Veronika, "but what is reality?