Paul Virilio Quotes

The reasons for which 'this' world has been characterized as 'apparent' are the very reasons which indicate its reality; any other kind of reality is absolutely indemonstrable.

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

Is perception equivalent to existence?

Nothing is more abstract than reality.

Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.

There is no frontier between being and appearing.

My major preoccupation is the question, 'What is reality?'

The possible ranks higher than the actual.

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

I think that reality exists and that it's knowable.

Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.

Einstein said, if everything exists as a substance of qualities, and qualities exist only in mind, then all is mind.

First, philosophy concerns itself with all kinds of issues that don't get much airtime in day-to-day life. What's the nature of reality? Can we ever truly know anything, and if so, how? What does it mean to be a moral agent? And while we're at it, is there any such thing as agency anyway?

There may not be one Truth - there may be several truths - but saying that is not to say that reality doesn't exist.

The world is the totality of facts, not of things.

Everything that you can imagine is going on is going on.

I think what happens is when we start to look at the facts, everybody has their impression of what truth is.

Human beings are not capable of creating a thought that truly conceives of this existence. Nobody knows if we are really here, alive, or anything. It's a mystery.

There's so many different types of illusions; our lives are an illusion in a sense.

'Do not touch ontologically' doesn't mean 'are separated by empirically measurable hard edges.'

The world is everything that is the case.

The Greeks are wrong to recognize coming into being and perishing; for nothing comes into being nor perishes, but is rather compounded or dissolved from things that are. So they would be right to call coming into being composition and perishing dissolution.

I might as well doubt of my own being, as of the being of those things I actually see and feel.

There is always a divergence between our perception and what actually exists.

Reality is what we want it to be or what we do not want it to be, but it is not our wanting or our not wanting that makes it so.