If you pay attention to the world, it’s an amazing place. If you don’t, it’s whatever you think it is.
—Reggie Watts
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
—Philip K. Dick
The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
—Benjamin Disraeli
The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security a delusion, and the tyranny of the dull mind forever threatens—but our lives are not as limited as we think they are, all things are possible, laughter is holier than piety, freedom is sweeter than fame, and in the end it’s love and love alone that really matters.
—Tom Robbins
We’re making it up. The world, the universe, life, reality. Especially reality.
—Tom Robbins
What have we achieved in mowing down mountain ranges, harnessing the energy of mighty rivers, or moving whole populations about like chess pieces, if we ourselves remain the same restless, miserable, frustrated creatures we were before? To call such activity progress is utter delusion.
—Henry Miller
The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.
—Yasutani Roshi
I do what most women do. I meet someone and some of it's right, maybe he looks right, or has the right job, or the right background, and, instead of sitting back and waiting for him to reveal his other bits, I make them up. I decide how he thinks, how he's going to treat me, and, sure enough, every time I conclude that this time he's definitely my perfect man, and all of a sudden, well, not so suddenly perhaps, usually around six months after we've split up, I see that he wasn't the person I thought he was at all.
—Jane Green in Mr. Maybe
It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.
—Dame Rose Macaulay
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
—George Bernard Shaw