Alan Moore Quotes

All the visible universe is nothing but a shop of images and signs.

The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.

Nearly all institutions, it might be said, are based on signs, but these signs do not directly evoke things.

Words are things, but things which mean. We cannot do away with meaning without doing away with signs, that is, with language itself. Moreover, we would have to do away with the universe. All the things man touches are impregnated with meaning.

Our world isn't made of earth, air and water or even molecules and atoms; our world is made of language.

Matter is simply a concept. The world is made of language.

The physical universe that you see is all in your mind. When you turn your mind off, or become unconscious, the physical universe, for you, disappears. Then, when you awaken your consciousness, the universe reappears magically. Quite simple really - no thoughts on your part, no physical world. As Walt Whitman succinctly stated: "The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual - namely to You." Without your mind to process it, the universe simply disappears into nothingness.

Necessity resides in the way we talk about things, not in the things we talk about.

Being that can be understood is language.

In all aspects of life... we define our reality in terms of metaphors and then proceed to act on the basis of the metaphors. We draw inferences, set goals, make commitments, and execute plans, all on the basis of how we in part structure our experience, consciously and unconsciously, by means of metaphor.

Language, in its origin and essence, is simply a system of signs or symbols that denote real occurrences or their echo in the human soul.

Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.

Our consciousness is our contribution to reality. What we perceive as real, becomes real.

You create your own universe as you go along.

Everything is a reenactment. We are reenacting the world in the mind. The world is not inside there. It does not reside in the gray matter of the brain.

Each person is the universe from a particular perspective.

The world is as you are.

The famous pipe. How people reproached me for it! And yet, could you stuff my pipe? No, it's just a representation, is it not? So if I had written on my picture “This is a pipe”, I'd have been lying!

Experience is always larger than language.

We are actually fourth dimensional beings in a third dimensional body inhabiting a second dimensional world!

The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.

It is my mind, with its store of images, that gives the world colour and sound; and that supremely real and rational certainty which I call "experience" is, in its most simple form, an exceedingly complicated structure of mental images. Thus there is, in a certain sense, nothing that is directly experienced except the mind itself. Everything is mediated through the mind.

Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.

In reality, our mind is the creator of all the things we experience.

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.