Reality

"Cultivate an intellectual habit of subordinating one's opinions and wishes to objective evidence and a reverence for things as they really are."

"Poor things, she thought - do they have to spend all this energy just to surround me? It seemed pitiful that these automatons should be created and wasted, never knowing more than a minor fragment of the pattern in which they were involved, to learn and follow through insensitively a tiny step in the great dance which was seen close up as the destruction of Natalie, and far off, as the end of the"

"In real life, you don't get a reset, and you don't get extra lives, and I got the crap pounded out of me."

"I cannot understand why we idle discussing religion. If we are honest—and scientists have to be—we must admit that religion is a jumble of false assertions, with no basis in reality. The very idea of God is a product of the human imagination. It is quite understandable why primitive people, who were so much more exposed to the overpowering forces of nature than we are today, should have personified these forces in fear and trembling. But nowadays, when we understand so many natural processes, we have no need for such solutions. I can't for the life of me see how the postulate of an Almighty God helps us in any way. What I do see is that this assumption leads to such unproductive questions as why God allows so much misery and injustice, the exploitation of the poor by the rich and all the other horrors He might have prevented. If religion is still being taught, it is by no means because its ideas still convince us, but simply because some of us want to keep the lower classes quiet. Quiet people are much easier to govern than clamorous and dissatisfied ones. They are also much easier to exploit. Religion is a kind of opium that allows a nation to lull itself into wishful dreams and so forget the injustices that are being perpetrated against the people. Hence the close alliance between those two great political forces, the State and the Church. Both need the illusion that a kindly God rewards—in heaven if not on earth—all those who have not risen up against injustice, who have done their duty quietly and uncomplainingly. That is precisely why the honest assertion that God is a mere product of the human imagination is branded as the worst of all mortal sins."

"While you're governing the colony and I'm writing political philosophy, They'll never guess that in the darkness of night we sneak into each other's room and play checkers and have pillow fights."

"I have never distinguished readily between thinking and dreaming. I know my life would be much different if I could ever say, This I have learned from my senses, while that I have merely imagined."

"The definition of a professional is one who does a job well even when they don't like it."

"Life is like butter - when things cool down it can be reshaped"

"Like a fire alarm going off in your ear, sulfur up your nose, mouth full of sour milk, reality is what it is – you deal with it."

"By perceiving the end of those illusive ideas and statuses as real, see yourself as though you have already accomplished what you have had a revelation to do. Then go, make it happen."

"There is light in a world of darkness because there is hope in a world of hatred."

"Reality is okay if you have a friend that will help you up when it comes around to smack you in the face."

"You only live once so, lets make a difference people will remember."

"The most ridiculous activity of human mind is questioning. Cognition of reality surpasses both question and answer, however ingenious."

"They may have been rightly overbearing in her formative years, but they also loved Roselyn enough to trust she needed dreams more than realities."

"General belief is “There is no real magic, only tricks” but a great magician compel people not to trust that belief and make them believe, after all "There does exist a real magic"."

"Now I know what the atom looks like."

"When you try hard to get something, but you gain nothing, this is what's called depression."

"The most brutal avenger on earth is a reality you ignored, however minor."

"The dumbest thing one could ever do is to hold on to something that is slippery"