Paul Virilio Quotes

I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

The world consists of images on a screen, and consciousness is the steady light that emanates from the projector.

Light changes, our eyes blink and see the world from the slightest difference of perspective and our place in it has changed.

Time is so strange and life is twice as strange.

Life always is now, but the form the now takes changes continuously. Most people equate the form the now takes with the now itself, and so they believe there are many different moments.

The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.

Look. We both know life is short, Macy. Too short to waste a single second with anyone who doesn't appreciate and value you." You said the other day life was long," I shot back. "Which is it?" It's both," she said, shrugging. "It all depends on how you choose to live it. It's like forever, always changing." Nothing can be two opposite things at once," I said. "It's impossible." No," she replied, squeezing my hand, "what's impossible is that we actually think it could be anything OTHER than that.

We forget that the world is what we imagine it to be. We stop being the sun and become, instead, the pool of water reflecting it.

This is not magic. This is the way the world is, only very few people take the time to stop and note it.

All progression is in the relative world.

Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.

If everything had a label, we would live in a fully delineated but false world.

There is neither past nor future. There is only the present. Yesterday was the present to you when you experienced it, and tomorrow will be also the present when you experience it. Therefore, experience takes place only in the present, and beyond experience nothing exists.

The world in which we live is the only world about which our senses can testify.

The composition is the thing seen by everyone living in the living they are doing, they are the composing of the composition that at the time they are living is the composition of the time in which they are living.

It's not that photography recaptures the world you have been in; more that it creates a new one: photographs are like Post-It Notes reminding us of the deep architectonic forms of space and thought.

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

Words are small shapes in the gorgeous chaos of the world.

The world isn't what you think it is.

Time does not pass, it merely changes.

He spent six hours examining things, trying to find a difference from their appearance on the previous day in the hope of discovering in them some change that would reveal the passage of time.

I see the world as an illusion, and we shouldn't take ourselves so seriously

We think we are the victims of time. In reality, the way of the world isn't fixed anywhere. How could that be possible? We are our own journey. And therefore we are time as well. We are the same. Fugitive. Inscrutable. Ruthless.

The world doesn't just disappear when you close your eyes, does it?

You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is...now.