“When you get down to the bottom of it, only about half of what we remember really happened. We tend to modify things to make ourselves look better in our own eyes and in the eyes of others. Then, if what we did wasn't really very admirable, we tend to forget that it ever happened. A normal human being's grasp on reality is very tenuous at best. Our imaginary lives are usually much nicer.” IfsHumansLooksRealityEyeRememberHuman BeingsForgetHalfHappenedNormalBottomImaginaryAdmirableImaginary Life Book:Polgara the Sorceress Source: Polgara the Sorceress
“The demands of our reality function require that we adapt to reality, that we constitute ourselves as a reality and that we manufacture works which are realities. But doesn't reverie, by its very essence, liberate us from the reality function? From the moment it is considered in all its simplicity, it is perfectly evident that reverie bears witness to a normal useful irreality function which keeps the human psyche on the fringe of all the brutality of a hostile and foreign non-self.” HumansSelfMomentsRealityBearsDemandNormalEssenceFunctionSimplicityWitnessEvidentHostileFringeBrutalityReverieHuman Psyche Author:Gaston Bachelard
“I really got consumed with the idea of how people who are deemed crazy or insane often have a firmer grasp on reality than normal people. The average person goes through life thinking it will go on forever.” PeopleThinkingPersonsIdeasRealityForeverCrazyGoes OnNormalAverageInsaneConsumedAverage Person Author:Youth Lagoon
“Reality TV has managed to commodify everything we used to think of as the elements of normal life.” ThinkingRealityUsedTvsElementsNormalNormal LifeReality Tv Author:Merrill Markoe
“I have been putting words like 'abnormal' and 'deviant' in quotes because those categorizations are under fire now, the boundary between normal and abnormal as questionable now as are all the other boundaries that once defined social reality.” Has BeensRealitySocialFireNormalBoundariesDefinedAbnormalQuestionableCategorizationDeviantsNormal And Abnormal Author:Walter Truett Anderson
“I got through with my ability to mimic others and make people laugh. I swaggered through life, but, in reality, I lived in fear pretty much every day. I acted like a completely normal person, and I suppose I was good at it. But, inside, it was a very different story.” PeoplePersonsDifferentStoriesRealityAbilityLaughingNormalMaking People Laugh Author:Paddy Considine
“There are so many cameras. There is so much instant media attention, not just for celebrities, but for normal people that get thrust in the reality world.” PeopleWorldRealityAttentionMediaNormalCamerasInstantThrust Author:Lorenzo Lamas
“Anybody who's away from what's normal is just kind of pushed aside as, 'Oh, he's crazy.' But in reality, this world is crazy. It's just chaos everywhere. It's really hard to be part of this world, because it's very possessed. And very egocentric.” WorldKindHardRealityCrazyThis WorldNormalChaosPossessedEgocentric Author:Troy Polamalu
“One wants never to give up this crystalline perspective. One wants to keep counterpositioning home with what one knows of alternative realities, as they exist in Tunis or Hyderabad. One wants never to forget that nothing here is normal, that the streets are different in Wisebaden, and Louyang, that this is just one of many possible worlds.” KnowsWorldWantGivingDifferentHomeRealityForgetStreetsPerspectiveGiving UpNormalAlternativesJust OneNever Giving Up Author:Alain de Botton
“That was how I was going to get things back to normal-by working. I never thought I would use the words “working” and “normal” in the same sentence, but I'll try anything to avoid facing reality.” TryingUseRealityNormalSentencesFacing Reality Author:Gary Reilly
“I was very curious, that's why I think my reality TV seems normal. I watch a lot of reality TV because I am so interested in people and observing people. From a very young age I can remember watching a woman with a guy and she's rolling her eyes and he's pleading with her and I would think, she doesn't want to be with him, he's in love with her, she likes this other guy and I would make up these stories in my head about these people. That helps me sort of profile people and that is a key to being able to read people.” PeopleThinkingWantI CanHelpingStoriesRealitySeemsEyeAgeAbleRememberYoungGuyWatchesTvsKeysNormalLikesCuriousHelp MeRollingHer EyesYoung AgeObservingOther GuysProfileReality TvPleading Author:Daniel Negreanu
“I want to connect music to its highest power - which is heightening consciousness and affecting people's reality. That can't be done in normal ways, not according to my experience.” PeopleWayWantDoneRealityConsciousnessNormalHighest Author:Saul Williams
“It's like a laboratory, a micro-society of real life, so it didn't look odd to talk about bureaucracy. In the school, in the class, there are already a lot of children from different ethnic backgrounds so the reality is there. I don't have to shove it in people's face. It's just there and it's normal.” PeopleLooksChildrenDifferentRealRealitySchoolFacesClassNormalReal LifeBackgroundsOddBureaucracyLaboratoryEthnic Background Author:Philippe Falardeau
“For me, it's just a normal artistic endeavour to explore the dark side. Certainly, I'm not alone in it. Artists generally don't like to accept the version of reality that society and culture hand them. They want to know what's really going on. So you're always looking in the ceilings, under the floorboards and behind the walls, trying to find the mechanisms, the structures, and the truth. I find that often leads you into some dark places.” KnowsWantTryingHandsRealityArtistCultureSidesDarkBehindsAcceptingWallNormalStructureVersionsArtisticMechanismNot AloneCeilingsDark SideEndeavourDark PlacesSociety And Culture Author:David Cronenberg
“Reality... includes a perceiver, who has memories, thoughts, desires, emotions - [which] a normal camera tends to omit.” RealityDesireMemoriesEmotionNormalCameras Author:Barbara Ess
“My work involves the physical manifestation of emotional reality. Thus, the invisible becomes visible; the normal, abnormal; and the familiar, unfamiliar. Ordinary life is an endless source of fascination to me in its ritualistic objects and behavior.” RealityLife IsObjectsEmotionalSourceBehaviorNormalOrdinaryEndlessInvisibleFamiliarManifestationVisibleFascinationUnfamiliarAbnormalOrdinary Life Author:Sandy Skoglund
“We call our intuition our sixth sense, but in reality it would be called our first sense, because it's rooted in quantum nature of reality. It was around long before our solar system and our planetary system were even formulated or even organized. It is at the basis of how our normal sensing works. So instead of being our sixth sense or even â€" using the parapsychological term â€" "extrasensory perception," it's not. It's at the basis of our perception, and that's the quantum world.” WorldFirstsLongRealityWould BeTermNormalPerceptionBasesIntuitionOrganizedRootedQuantumSolar SystemSixth SenseSensing Author:Edgar Mitchell
“Of course, the toxic bullshit of incessant advertising and show biz for nearly a century has stripped us of cognitive abilities for dealing with reality that used to be part of the normal equipment of adulthood - for instance, knowing the difference between wishing for stuff and making stuff happen. We bamboozled ourselves with too much magic.” ShowsRealityHappensUsedCoursesWishStuffDifferencesAbilityKnowingToo MuchMagicCenturyNormalAdvertisingUsed To BeInstanceToxicAdulthoodBullshitEquipmentCognitiveIncessantStuff HappensShow Biz Author:James Howard Kunstler
“There are kinds of action, for good or ill, that lie so far outside the boundaries of normal behavior that they force us, in acknowledging that they have occurred, to restructure our own understanding of reality. We have to make room for them.” KindRealityActionLyingForceUnderstandingRoomsBehaviorNormalIllBoundariesRestructure Author:Guy Gavriel Kay
“I had all the characteristics of a human being—flesh, blood, skin, hair—but my depersonalization was so intense, had gone so deep, that my normal ability to feel compassion had been eradicated, the victim of a slow, purposeful erasure. I was simply imitating reality, a rough resemblance of a human being, with only a dim corner of my mind functioning” FeelsMindHumansRealityHuman BeingsAbilityCompassionGoneBloodHairNormalSkinsVictimCornersFleshIntenseCharacteristicsRoughOf My MindResemblancePsychoImitatingDepersonalization Author:Bret Easton Ellis
“Perhaps there is supranatural: reason beyond the normal definitions of fact or data-based logic; something that only makes sense if you can see a bigger picture of reality. Maybe that is where faith fits in.” IfsReasonFactsRealityFitNormalLogicBiggerDefinitionsDataMake SenseBigger PictureShack Book Author:William P. Young
“There are periods of history when the visions of madmen and dope fiends are a better guide to reality than the common-sense interpretation of data available to the so-called normal mind. This is one such period, if you haven't noticed already.” IfsMindRealityCommonVisionHavensPeriodsNormalAvailableGuidesCommon SenseDataInterpretationMadmenDope Author:Robert Anton Wilson