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Yet that doesn't mean you weren't real before you woke me.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Christopher Paolini", "slug": "christopher-paolini", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/christopher-paolini" }, "book": { "title": "Eragon", "slug": "eragon", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/christopher-paolini/eragon" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "knowledge", "slug": "knowledge", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/knowledge" }, { "name": "reality", "slug": "reality", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/reality" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Eragon#Other_Quotes", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:50:29" }, { "id": "cd0cddc4-56f5-4c43-81f7-a3937d6a5cbd", "slug": "zhuang-zi-who", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/slavoj-zizek/the-sublime-object-of-ideology/zhuang-zi-who", "text": "Zhuang Zi, who dreamt of being a butterfly, and after his awakening posed himself a question: how does he know that he is not now a butterfly dreaming of being Zhuang Zi?", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Slavoj Žižek", "slug": "slavoj-zizek", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/slavoj-zizek" }, "book": { "title": "The Sublime Object of Ideology", "slug": "the-sublime-object-of-ideology", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/slavoj-zizek/the-sublime-object-of-ideology" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "reality", "slug": "reality", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/reality" }, { "name": "dreams", "slug": "dreams", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/dreams" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Slavoj_%C5%BDi%C5%BEek#The_Sublime_Object_of_Ideology_(1989)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:50:17" }, { "id": "85b4f711-c224-4580-a589-c1bb543ca4d7", "slug": "and-the-more", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/diary/and-the-more", "text": "\"And the more she could imagine this island, the less she liked the real world. The more she could imagine the people, the less she liked any real people. [...] It got until she didn’t belong anywhere. It got so nobody was good enough, refined enough, real enough. [...] Nothing was as real as her imagined world.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Chuck Palahniuk", "slug": "chuck-palahniuk", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk" }, "book": { "title": "Diary", "slug": "diary", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/diary" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "imagination", "slug": "imagination", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/imagination" }, { "name": "reality", "slug": "reality", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/reality" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Diary_(novel)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:49:20" }, { "id": "637719e0-bf9a-453d-9a8d-c706292704c0", "slug": "our-own-time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/wallace-stevens/the-necessary-angel/our-own-time", "text": "Our own time, and by this I mean the last two or three generations, including our own, can be summed up in a way that brings into unity an immense number of details by saying of it that it is a time in which the search for the supreme truth has been a search in reality or through reality or even a search for some supremely acceptable fiction.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Wallace Stevens", "slug": "wallace-stevens", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/wallace-stevens" }, "book": { "title": "The Necessary Angel", "slug": "the-necessary-angel", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/wallace-stevens/the-necessary-angel" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "truth", "slug": "truth", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/truth" }, { "name": "reality", "slug": "reality", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/reality" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wallace_Stevens#The_Necessary_Angel_(1951)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:49:11" }, { "id": "0f2a96a0-0ddf-4ddb-9d68-ca27c932f48f", "slug": "the-humble-are", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/wallace-stevens/the-necessary-angel/the-humble-are", "text": "The humble are they that move about the world with the lure of the real in their hearts.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Wallace Stevens", "slug": "wallace-stevens", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/wallace-stevens" }, "book": { "title": "The Necessary Angel", "slug": "the-necessary-angel", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/wallace-stevens/the-necessary-angel" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "reality", "slug": "reality", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/reality" }, { "name": "humility", "slug": "humility", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humility" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wallace_Stevens#The_Necessary_Angel_(1951)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:49:11" }, { "id": "07cfb343-ba3c-457f-a475-665aff02f5e7", "slug": "the-world-is-a-force", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/wallace-stevens/opus-posthumous/the-world-is-a-force", "text": "The world is a force, not a presence.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Wallace Stevens", "slug": "wallace-stevens", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/wallace-stevens" }, "book": { "title": "Opus Posthumous", "slug": "opus-posthumous", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/wallace-stevens/opus-posthumous" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "reality", "slug": "reality", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/reality" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wallace_Stevens#Adagia", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:49:11" }, { "id": "78fe4af8-05a5-4b45-8d27-159de5790a9c", "slug": "the-imagination-loses", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/wallace-stevens/the-necessary-angel/the-imagination-loses", "text": "The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real. When it adheres to the unreal and intensifies what is unreal, while its first effect may be extraordinary, that effect is the maximum effect that it will ever have.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Wallace Stevens", "slug": "wallace-stevens", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/wallace-stevens" }, "book": { "title": "The Necessary Angel", "slug": "the-necessary-angel", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/wallace-stevens/the-necessary-angel" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "imagination", "slug": "imagination", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/imagination" }, { "name": "reality", "slug": "reality", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/reality" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wallace_Stevens#The_Necessary_Angel_(1951)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:49:10" }, { "id": "d32ac031-8aa0-4a25-b7ba-4d397228bc71", "slug": "names-are-not", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/roger-zelazny/lord-of-light/names-are-not", "text": "Names are not important... To speak is to name names, but to speak is not important. A thing happens once that has never happened before. Seeing it, a man looks upon reality. He cannot tell others what he has seen. Others wish to know, however, so they question him saying, 'What is it like, this thing you have seen?' So he tries to tell them. Perhaps he has seen the very first fire in the world. He tells them, 'It is red, like a poppy, but through it dance other colors. It has no form, like water, flowing everywhere. It is warm, like the sun of summer, only warmer. It exists for a time upon a piece of wood, and then the wood is gone, as though it were eaten, leaving behind that which is black and can be sifted like sand. When the wood is gone, it too is gone.' Therefore, the hearers must think reality is like a poppy, like water, like the sun, like that which eats and excretes. They think it is like to anything that they are told it is like by the man who has known it. But they have not looked upon fire. They cannot really know it. They can only know of it. But fire comes again into the world, many times. More men look upon fire. After a time, fire is as common as grass and clouds and the air they breathe. They see that, while it is like a poppy, it is not a poppy, while it is like water, it is not water, while it is like the sun, it is not the sun, and while it is like that which eats and passes wastes, it is not that which eats and passes wastes, but something different from each of these apart or all of these together. So they look upon this new thing and they make a new word to call it. They call it 'fire.' \"If they come upon one who still has not seen it and they speak to him of fire, he does not know what they mean. So they, in turn, fall back upon telling him what fire is like. 'As they do so, they know from their own experience that what they are telling him is not the truth, but only a part of it. They know that this man will never know reality from their words, though all the words in the world are theirs to use. He must look upon the fire, smell of it, warm his hands by it, stare into its heart, or remain forever ignorant. Therefore, 'fire' does not matter, 'earth' and 'air' and 'water' do not matter. 'I' do not matter. No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words. The more words he remembers, the cleverer do his fellows esteem him. He looks upon the great transformations of the world, but he does not see them as they were seen when man looked upon reality for the first time. Their names come to his lips and he smiles as he tastes them, thinking he knows them in the naming. The thing that has never happened before is still happening. It is still a miracle. The great burning blossom squats, flowing, upon the limb of the world, excreting the ash of the world, and being none of these things I have named and at the same time all of them, and this is reality — the Nameless.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Roger Zelazny", "slug": "roger-zelazny", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/roger-zelazny" }, "book": { "title": "Lord of Light", "slug": "lord-of-light", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/roger-zelazny/lord-of-light" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "language", "slug": "language", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/language" }, { "name": "reality", "slug": "reality", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/reality" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lord_of_Light#ONE", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:49:09" }, { "id": "d7b41899-357d-4aeb-b6aa-c8ca46f8b04f", "slug": "making-reality-real", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/eudora-welty/on-writing/making-reality-real", "text": "Making reality real is art's responsibility. It is a practical assignment, then, a self-assignment: to achieve, by a cultivated sensitivity for observing life, a capacity for receiving impressions, a lonely, unremitting, unaided, unaidable vision, and transferring this vision without distortion to it onto the pages of a novel, where, if the reader is so persuaded, it will turn into the reader's illusion. (\"Place in Fiction\")", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Eudora Welty", "slug": "eudora-welty", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/eudora-welty" }, "book": { "title": "On Writing", "slug": "on-writing", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/eudora-welty/on-writing" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "art", "slug": "art", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/art" }, { "name": "reality", "slug": "reality", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/reality" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Eudora_Welty#On_Writing_(2002)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:48:48" }, { "id": "24c28ee9-4dbc-4593-833d-cdd89374f275", "slug": "redefine-the-terms", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-city-in-the-autumn-stars/redefine-the-terms", "text": "Redefine the terms by which Man views the world, and thus eventually you redefine the world itself.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Michael Moorcock", "slug": "michael-moorcock", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock" }, "book": { "title": "The City in the Autumn Stars", "slug": "the-city-in-the-autumn-stars", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-city-in-the-autumn-stars" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 367, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "language", "slug": "language", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/language" }, { "name": "reality", "slug": "reality", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/reality" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michael_Moorcock#The_City_in_the_Autumn_Stars_(1986)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:48:45" }, { "id": "55ccc37b-6de9-440e-9b6e-9abda33e1458", "slug": "in-an-infinite", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-warlord-of-the-air/in-an-infinite", "text": "In an infinite universe, all may become real sooner or later. Yet it is always up to mankind to make real what it really wishes to be real.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Michael Moorcock", "slug": "michael-moorcock", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock" }, "book": { "title": "The Warlord of the Air", "slug": "the-warlord-of-the-air", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-warlord-of-the-air" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 135, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "reality", "slug": "reality", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/reality" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michael_Moorcock#The_Warlord_of_the_Air_(1971)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:48:43" }, { "id": "91a84dcd-cde6-4a7e-be96-4b3f41f46ab2", "slug": "the-time-has", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-sundered-worlds/the-time-has", "text": "The time has come for the dismantling of fantasies. That is already happening to our universe. Now that we have this one chance of survival we must finally rid ourselves of fantasies and seize that chance! For centuries our race has built on false assumptions. If you build a fantasy based on a false assumption and continue to build on such a fantasy, your whole existence becomes a lie which you implant in others who are too lazy or too busy to question its truth. In this manner you threaten the very existence of reality, because, by refusing to obey its laws, those laws engulf and destroy you. The human race has for too long been manufacturing convenient fantasies and calling them laws. For ages this was so. Take war, for instance. Politicians assume that something is true, assume that strife is inevitable, and by building on such false assumptions, lo and behold, they create further wars which they have, ostensibly, sought to prevent. We have, until now, accepted too many fantasies as being truths, too many truths as fantasies. And we have one last chance to discover the real nature of our existence. I am prepared to take it!", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Michael Moorcock", "slug": "michael-moorcock", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock" }, "book": { "title": "The Sundered Worlds", "slug": "the-sundered-worlds", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-sundered-worlds" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 229, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "war", "slug": "war", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/war" }, { "name": "reality", "slug": "reality", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/reality" }, { "name": "illusions", "slug": "illusions-2", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/illusions-2" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michael_Moorcock#The_Sundered_Worlds_(1965)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:48:34" }, { "id": "d0a1151c-0f49-4e70-b989-7a98a9a42e88", "slug": "in-a-vivid", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-fowles/the-french-lieutenants-woman/in-a-vivid", "text": "In a vivid Insight, a flash of black lightning, he [Charles] saw that all life was parallel: that evolution was not vertical, ascending to a perfection, but horizontal. Time was the great fallacy; existence was without history, was always now, was always this being caught in the same fiendish machine. All those painted screens erected by man to shut out reality — history, religion, duty, social position, all were illusions, mere opium fantasies.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "John Fowles", "slug": "john-fowles", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-fowles" }, "book": { "title": "The French Lieutenant's Woman", "slug": "the-french-lieutenants-woman", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-fowles/the-french-lieutenants-woman" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 200, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" }, { "name": "reality", "slug": "reality", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/reality" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Fowles#The_French_Lieutenant's_Woman_(1969)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:48:30" }, { "id": "3e4e7430-188f-455f-98cb-89935faa1eb0", "slug": "certain-mystes-aver", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/gene-wolfe/the-shadow-of-the-torturer/certain-mystes-aver", "text": "Certain mystes aver that the real world has been constructed by the human mind, since our ways are governed by the artificial categories into which we place essentially undifferentiated things, things weaker than our words for them.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Gene Wolfe", "slug": "gene-wolfe", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/gene-wolfe" }, "book": { "title": "The Shadow of the Torturer", "slug": "the-shadow-of-the-torturer", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/gene-wolfe/the-shadow-of-the-torturer" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "language", "slug": "language", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/language" }, { "name": "reality", "slug": "reality", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/reality" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Book_of_the_New_Sun#The_Shadow_of_the_Torturer_(1980)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:48:23" }, { "id": "43c1d0ae-4c20-4b8f-a80a-4914809d4cb2", "slug": "and-it-is-the", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-r-delany/neveryona/and-it-is-the", "text": "And it is the notions of reality and unreality themselves which finally become suspect when either one is mirrored in art, much less when both are mirrored together.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Samuel R. 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It’s going to something. Myths always lie in the most difficult places to ignore.”", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Samuel R. 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All his opinions change into their opposites at the first brush of reality.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "George Orwell", "slug": "george-orwell", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell" }, "book": { "title": "The Road to Wigan Pier", "slug": "the-road-to-wigan-pier", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/the-road-to-wigan-pier" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "reality", "slug": "reality", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/reality" }, { "name": "beliefs", "slug": "beliefs", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/beliefs" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Road_to_Wigan_Pier#Quotes", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:51" }, { "id": "871e6e25-6e77-4b9f-b44e-f92bc18bad7f", "slug": "reality-isnt-the", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/theodore-sturgeon/more-than-human/reality-isnt-the", "text": "Reality isn’t the most pleasant of atmospheres, Lieutenant. But we like to think we’re engineered for it. It’s a pretty fine piece of engineering, the kind an engineer can respect. Drag in an obsession and reality can’t tolerate it. Something has to give; if reality goes, your fine piece of engineering is left with nothing to operate on. So it operates badly. So kick the obsession out; start functioning the way you were designed to function.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Theodore Sturgeon", "slug": "theodore-sturgeon", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/theodore-sturgeon" }, "book": { "title": "More Than Human", "slug": "more-than-human", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/theodore-sturgeon/more-than-human" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 146, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "reality", "slug": "reality", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/reality" }, { "name": "obsession", "slug": "obsession", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/obsession" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Theodore_Sturgeon#More_Than_Human_(1953)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:49" }, { "id": "9ac3a2db-2e67-478b-b047-1b1db15f5dd2", "slug": "belief-is-nearly", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/bluebeard/belief-is-nearly", "text": "'''Belief is nearly the whole of the Universe, whether based on truth or not.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Kurt Vonnegut", "slug": "kurt-vonnegut", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut" }, "book": { "title": "Bluebeard", "slug": "bluebeard", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/bluebeard" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 144, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "faith", "slug": "faith", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/faith" }, { "name": "reality", "slug": "reality", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/reality" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut#Bluebeard_(1987)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:42" }, { "id": "ab4b8bcc-0795-4bbb-900d-a863610db0ae", "slug": "i-n-academia-there", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/nassim-nicholas-taleb/skin-in-the-game/i-n-academia-there", "text": "[I]n academia there is no difference between academia and the real world; in the real world, there is.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Nassim Nicholas Taleb", "slug": "nassim-nicholas-taleb", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/nassim-nicholas-taleb" }, "book": { "title": "Skin in the Game", "slug": "skin-in-the-game", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/nassim-nicholas-taleb/skin-in-the-game" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 3, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "humor", "slug": "humor", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor" }, { "name": "science", "slug": "science", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/science" }, { "name": "reality", "slug": "reality", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/reality" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nassim_Nicholas_Taleb#Skin_in_the_Game_(2018)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:33" }, { "id": "a7e57aee-8fae-4568-be42-9044f0a3fc00", "slug": "the-world-of-our", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-james/the-varieties-of-religious-experience/the-world-of-our", "text": "The world of our experience consists at all times of two parts, an objective and a subjective part, of which the former may be incalculably more extensive than the latter, and yet the latter can never be omitted or suppressed. The objective part is the sum total of whatsoever at any given time we may be thinking of, the subjective part is the inner \"state\" in which the thinking comes to pass.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "William James", "slug": "william-james", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-james" }, "book": { "title": "The Varieties of Religious Experience", "slug": "the-varieties-of-religious-experience", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-james/the-varieties-of-religious-experience" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "reality", "slug": "reality", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/reality" }, { "name": "consciousness", "slug": "consciousness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/consciousness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_James#The_Varieties_of_Religious_Experience_(1902)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:15" }, { "id": "e3eddc5b-1024-4de9-bb7e-a666c652c68c", "slug": "the-sentiment-of-reality", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-james/the-varieties-of-religious-experience/the-sentiment-of-reality", "text": "The sentiment of reality can indeed attach itself so strongly to our object of belief that our whole life is polarized through and through, so to speak, by its sense of the existence of the thing believed in, and yet that thing, for the purpose of definite description, can hardly be said to be present to our mind at all.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "William James", "slug": "william-james", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-james" }, "book": { "title": "The Varieties of Religious Experience", "slug": "the-varieties-of-religious-experience", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-james/the-varieties-of-religious-experience" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "faith", "slug": "faith", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/faith" }, { "name": "reality", "slug": "reality", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/reality" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_James#The_Varieties_of_Religious_Experience_(1902)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:14" }, { "id": "437a43b8-e211-43c5-874c-9ac6002bb59e", "slug": "its-not-a-matter", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/haunted/its-not-a-matter", "text": "\"It's not a matter of right and wrong,\" Mr. Whittier would say. Really, there is no wrong. Not in our minds. Our own reality. You can never set off to do the wrong thing. You can never say the wrong thing. In your own mind, you are always right. 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You'll be like a contagious disease that makes humans blind, so they can no longer distinguish between reality and illusion. Do you know what you and your kind are called there?\" \"No,\" Atreyu whispered. \"Lies!\" Gmork barked.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Michael Ende", "slug": "michael-ende", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-ende" }, "book": { "title": "The Neverending Story", "slug": "the-neverending-story", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-ende/the-neverending-story" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "lies", "slug": "lies", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/lies" }, { "name": "reality", "slug": "reality", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/reality" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Neverending_Story#Quotes", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:41:56" }, { "id": "47c3170d-129e-4ba7-b223-25ca78d36a4d", "slug": "the-only-people", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/salman-rushdie/the-ground-beneath-her-feet/the-only-people", "text": "\"The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step out of the frame.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Salman Rushdie", "slug": "salman-rushdie", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/salman-rushdie" }, "book": { "title": "The Ground Beneath Her Feet", "slug": "the-ground-beneath-her-feet", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/salman-rushdie/the-ground-beneath-her-feet" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "thinking", "slug": "thinking", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/thinking" }, { "name": "reality", "slug": "reality", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/reality" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Ground_Beneath_Her_Feet#Quotes", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:41:27" }, { "id": "af6c8169-88b9-45fe-9ac1-e59b5ec7ac34", "slug": "the-world-somebody", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/salman-rushdie/the-satanic-verses/the-world-somebody", "text": "The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Salman Rushdie", "slug": "salman-rushdie", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/salman-rushdie" }, "book": { "title": "The Satanic Verses", "slug": "the-satanic-verses", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/salman-rushdie/the-satanic-verses" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "death", "slug": "death", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/death" }, { "name": "reality", "slug": "reality", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/reality" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Salman_Rushdie#The_Satanic_Verses_(1988)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:41:26" }, { "id": "aaec421a-086f-45c3-8cd8-5a3e2c5bba5a", "slug": "are-we-a-dream", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/gore-vidal/julian/are-we-a-dream", "text": "Are we a dream in the mind of a deity, or is each of us a separate dreamer, evoking his own reality?", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Gore Vidal", "slug": "gore-vidal", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/gore-vidal" }, "book": { "title": "Julian", "slug": "julian", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/gore-vidal/julian" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "dreams and aspirations", "slug": "dreams-and-aspirations", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/dreams-and-aspirations" }, { "name": "reality", "slug": "reality", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/reality" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gore_Vidal#Julian_(1964)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:41:18" }, { "id": "4a500cb0-2ff6-41f2-a61e-598f7614beee", "slug": "i-now-know", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/quentin-crisp/the-naked-civil-servant/i-now-know", "text": "I now know that if you describe things as better as they are, you are considered to be romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you are called a realist; and if you describe things exactly as they are, you are called a satirist.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Quentin Crisp", "slug": "quentin-crisp", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/quentin-crisp" }, "book": { "title": "The Naked Civil Servant", "slug": "the-naked-civil-servant", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/quentin-crisp/the-naked-civil-servant" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "irony", "slug": "irony", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/irony" }, { "name": "reality", "slug": "reality", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/reality" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Quentin_Crisp#The_Naked_Civil_Servant_(1968)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:41:11" }, { "id": "7270dccd-4549-40b1-8594-657794a7d44f", "slug": "hell-of-a-world", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-gibson/burning-chrome/hell-of-a-world", "text": "\"Hell of a world we live in…\" \"That's right,\" I said, \"or even worse, it could be perfect.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "William Gibson", "slug": "william-gibson", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-gibson" }, "book": { "title": "Burning Chrome", "slug": "burning-chrome", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-gibson/burning-chrome" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "humor", "slug": "humor", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor" }, { "name": "reality", "slug": "reality", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/reality" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Gibson#Burning_Chrome_(short_story_collection,_1986)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:41:09" }, { "id": "389c4143-0f72-4ff7-95d8-52f582470971", "slug": "when-two-people", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-k-dick/lies-inc/when-two-people", "text": "When two people dream the same dream, it ceases to be an illusion.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Philip K. 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