Bill Hicks Quotes

[D]oes the real world have any more substance than visions and hallucinations when we're having them? At any given moment, what's happening in our minds is all and everything that happens.

The relationship between the imagined and the real is more complicated than people imagine.

The real world is much smaller than the imaginary

The world being illusive, one must be deluded in some way if one is to triumph in it.

I think there's more real in the unreal than there is in the real.

Reality can easily become the current fantasy.

All descriptions of reality are limited expressions of the world of emptiness. Yet we attach to the descriptions and think they are reality. That is a mistake.

The world in your mind is as real as the world outside of it.

People assume that they perceive reality as it is, that our senses accurately record the outside world. Yet the science suggests that, in important ways, people experience reality not as it is, but as they expect it to be.

Reality is a creation of our excesses.

The psychotic does not merely think he sees four blue bivalves with floppy wings wandering up the wall; he does see them. An hallucination is not, strictly speaking, manufactured in the brain; it is received by the brain, like any 'real' sense datum, and the patient act in response to this to-him-very-real perception of reality in as logical a way as we do to our sense data. In any way to suppose he only 'thinks he sees it' is to misunderstand totally the experience of psychosis.

I don't mistrust reality, of which I know next to nothing. I mistrust the picture of reality conveyed to us by our senses, which is imperfect and circumscribed.

It seems to me that the real problem is the mind itself and not the problem which the mind has created and tries to solve.

Reality is not so much what happens to us; rather, it is how we think about those events that create the reality we experience. In a very real sense, this means that we each create the reality in which we live.

Reality is fabricated out of desire.

We live in condensations of our imagination

I'm trying to get more into other things, where reality is nothing but each individual's way of thinking.

It is still beautiful to hear the heart beat but often the shadow seems more real than the body.

You can only live in the world you ken. The rest is just wishful thinking or paranoia.

Perception is real even when it is not reality.

All ego really is, is our opinions, which we take to be solid, real, and the absolute truth about how things are.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

People take reality for granted.

The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.

Reality doesn't bite, rather our perception of reality bites.