concept of reality Quotes

What the philosophers have to say about reality is often as disappointing as a sign you see in a shop window, which reads Pressing Done Here. If you brought your clothes in to be pressed, you would be fooled: for the sign is only for sale.

The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is to know that it is a fiction and that you believe in it willingly.

The real truths are those that can be invented.

In earlier times artists liked to show what was actually visible... nowadays we are concerned with reality, rather than the merely visible.

Every thing possible to be believ'd is an image of truth.

I am telling you that your perception of ultimate reality is more limited than you thought, and that Truth is more unlimited than you can imagine.

The secret of theory is that truth does not exist.

Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that.

The difference between him and the other boys at such a time was that they knew it was make-believe, while to hime make-believe and true were exactly the same thing. This sometimes troubled them, as when they had to make-believe that they had had their dinners.