Sunday, October 25, 2009

Reality

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

How do we know that the sky is not green and we are all colour-blind?

What is reality anyway! It's nothing but a collective hunch. ~Jane Wagner, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, 1985, performed by Lily Tomlin

What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable.

Few people have the imagination for reality.

Listening to both sides of a story will convince you that there is more to a story than both sides.

Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it.

I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.

Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their "agreement," as falsity means their disagreement, with "reality."

How reluctantly the mind consents to reality!

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

Everything you can imagine is real. ~ Pablo Picasso

6 comments:

Soin said...

as random as the entropy of a person allows to be..and the sky part can be extended to all stuff.. assumption is mother of all fuck ups but we have no choice left..free

Perspectives said...

Tagore expressed humans often fall into hope than seeing the reason, and long before we realize, disappointment becomes too hard to handle. It vents out ripping our heart and vein leaving us dejected and seeking for another false hope...

sobhit said...

realtiy n illusion... very valid thot... wonder most f us r only wanting 2live in illusion n mk it our reality.. while v nvr kn wen d illusion wud vanish n reality surface.. sayin dat i 2 wd fall in d same category.. running 4m realty at tyms n mk d illusion arnd me 2 feel safe n nice in it.. only dunno wen dis small bubble arnd wudburst n d harsh facets f realty come hauntin me.. interestin read here

srikanth said...

nice one:)

Anonymous said...

such deep emotions/.... hope is a wonderfult thing.. but too much expectations lead to dejections

Raj said...

:D
they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.
grr ryt u r.