Paul Virilio Quotes

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.

What is reality, anyway? Just a collective hunch.

The big reason that 'Doctor Who' is still with us is that every single viewer who ever turned in to watch this show, at any age, at any time in its history, took it into their heart - because 'Doctor Who' belongs to all of us. Everyone made 'Doctor Who.'

I never felt a feeling that I knew or could know to be unlike the feelings of other people. I never consciously thought, except after patterns that the world or my fellows set for me.

I believe America wants and needs the shared experience of television. We far too often see in crises how television brings us together.

I think that theater is a unique way to communicate with people as they gather together with other people they may not even know. It creates a sense of shared community for the time of the performance that hopefully carries over into other aspects of the audience's life because they have shared this experience together.

Age and numbers are a concept made up by man.

That's the power of fiction, that it can take the collective and make it personal.

That's part of what I remember about seeing the movies that influenced me: the experience of watching them with a crowd and how they react to something.

The choice of a point of view is the initial act of a culture.

You can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past. They lived in the present. It is their present, not our present, and they don't know how it's going to come out. They weren't just like we are because they lived in that very different time. You can't understand them if you don't understand how they perceived reality.

Time is made up of various ages; and each thinks its own a novelty.

A man who saw a miracle would reject his eyes' witness, if those with him saw nothing.

There’s something really powerful about groups and shared experiences. People might be skeptical about their ability to change if they’re by themselves, but a group will convince them to suspend disbelief. A community creates belief.

The bare fact that language consists of sounds which are mutually intelligible is enough of itself to show that its meaning depends upon connection with a shared experience.

An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.

"Beach." It's a very loose term now. Pretty widely used term. And that's awesome, but I guess my California experience is different from a lot of people's interpretations, and I think maybe I just wanted to put my spin on it.

The difference between a vision and a hallucination is that other people can see the vision.

The South is one of those kingdoms of the mind, like India or Scotland, that are neat and understandable only to people who have never been there.

We experience life as a continuity, and only after it falls away, after it becomes the past, do we see its discontinuities. The past, if there is such a thing, is mostly empty space, great expanses of nothing, in which significant persons and events float.

A self is, by its very essence, a being with a past. One must look lengthwise backwards in the stream of time in order to see theself, or its shadow, now moving with the stream, now eddying in the currents from bank to bank of its channel, and now strenuously straining onwards in the pursuit of its chosen good.

YANKEE, n. In Europe, an American. In the Northern States of our Union, a New Englander. In the Southern States the word is unknown.

Our courage comes from the courage of others.

Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be.

Happiness compresses time, makes it dense and bright, pocketsized.