Jean-Francois Lyotard Quotes

I'm trying to make sense of lot of things with 'Tyrannosaur.' I'm trying to make sense of people who've left now. They're not here, they can't answer for themselves any more, they're gone. And I'm trying to make peace with those ghosts.

Look, miracles in the Middle East are a reality.

Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.

The reality of nostalgia is nowhere better invoked than at the end of Tarkovsky's 'Solaris.' When the camera pans away from Kelvin embracing his father on the rain-soaked steps of his dacha, we realise that the scene is yet another of the simulations produced by the inscrutable planet.

Being different is ... interesting; there's nothing implicitly inferior or superior about it. Great difference, of course, produces natural caution; and if the differences are too extreme ... well, then, reality tends to fade away.

A problem only exists if there is a difference between what is actually happening and what you desire to be happening.

You don't have to be disabled to be different, because everybody's different.

We have thought of peace as the passive and war as the active way of living. The opposite is true. War is not the most strenuous life. It is a kind of rest-cure compared to the task of reconciling our differences.

The part always has a tendency to reunite with its whole in order to escape from its imperfection.

Only meaning can make a difference and we all know there's no meaning. All stories express a desire for meaning, not meaning itself. Therefore any difference knowing the story makes is a delusion.

You see, a conflict always begins with an issue - a difference of opinion, an argument. But by the time it turns into a war, the issue doesn't matter anymore, because now it's about one thing and one thing only: how much each side hates the other.

Even the loveliest dream bears like a blemish its difference from reality, the awareness that what it grants is mere illusion.

How strange too and unfamiliar to think that one had been loved, that one's presence had once had the power to make a difference between happiness and dullness in another's day.

Perception is reality, but it may not be actuality, and you have got to be able to keep the difference between that.

Haven't you got any romance in your soul?" said Magrat plaintively. "No," said Granny. "I ain't. And stars don't care what you wish, and magic don't make things better, and no one doesn't get burned who sticks their hand in a fire. If you want to amount to anything as a witch, Magrat Garlick, you got to learn three things. What's real, what's not real, and what's the difference.

Where there is no difference, there is only indifference.

...dreams were dreams and reality was reality and she felt people were better off understanding the difference.

There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a meaning to an infinite number of objects. The world comes to a stop, but also lights up.

The difference is no less real because it is of degree.

The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and a seal.

There was a huge difference between dislike and disregard.

Funny, for all surveillance, Osama bin Laden is still free—and we're not. Guess who's winning the "war on terror?

I know the dark delight of being strange, The penalty of difference in the crowd, The loneliness of wisdom among fools.

Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.