"Thinking is the desire to gain
reality by means of ideas."

~José Ortega y Gasset



"To make an apple pie from scratch,
you must first invent the universe."

~Carl Sagan



"Reality is merely an illusion,
albeit a very persistent one."

~Albert Einstein



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

~Philip K. Dick



"Do not try and bend the spoon.
That's impossible. Instead ...
only try to realize the truth."

"What truth?"

"There is no spoon."

~Andy & Larry Wachowski



"All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream."

~Edgar Allan Poe