Michael Keaton Quotes

Oh. I see. People don't want to see what can't possibly exist.

What you think is real is your reality.

It is easier to argue that something nobody believes in actually exists than it is to argue that something everybody believes in is unreal.

If all be a Dream, then he doth but dream that he makes the Question; and so it is not much matter that a waking Man should answer him.

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

A lot of people experience the world with the same incredulity as when a magician pulls a rabbit out of a hat.…We know that the world is not all sleight of hand and deception because we are in it, we are part of it. Actually we are the white rabbit being pulled out of the hat. The only difference beween us and the white rabbit is that the rabbit does not realize it is taking part in a magic trick.

I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it.

I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.

Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.

I may have had a prejudice against agnosticism as a body of thought: sort of a fence-sitting theory, where you can't make up your mind one way or another.

I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.

If people believe something is true, then it is even if it isn't.

The truth is whatever people will believe is the truth.

I believe in everything. I believe that everything is an illusion, and everything is there to be believed in.

To the critical intelligence, nothing is left of absolute reality.

Did you ever think that maybe what you see isn't really what's true?

You’re here,” I continued. “At least you look as if you’re here. But maybe you aren’t. Maybe it’s just your shadow. The real you may be someplace else. Or maybe you already disappeared, a long, long time ago. I reach out my hand to see, but you’ve hidden yourself behind a cloud of probablys. Do you think we can go on like this forever?

What happens is fact, not truth. Truth is what we think about what happens.

The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.

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

I think reality is over-rated

The truth is what I make it. I could set this world on fire and call it rain.

I don't think there's really observational magic.

I'm the idea of the human imagination, which, when you think about it, is the only thing we can really be certain ISN'T imaginary.

All life is a dream, and all dreams are dreams.