Penelope Spheeris Quotes

I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

That which is cannot be true.

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Facts are not the truth. They only indicate where the truth may lie.

Reality is the completion of experience.

If ignorance were enough to make things not exist, the world would be more like a lot of people think it is. But it's not. And it's not.

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.

The theater itself is a lie. Its deaths are mere special effects. Its tales never happened. Even the histories are distorted for dramatic effect. The theater is unnatural, a place of imagination. But the theater tells the audience something true: that the world requires judgments.

Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact.

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

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

When I was a kid, we actually lived in a house that had been divided in two at one point, which meant that one room in our house opened up onto a brick wall. And I was convinced all I had to do was just open it the right way and it wouldn't be a brick wall. So I'd sidle over to the door and I'd pull it open.

I think truth is weirder than fiction.

I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.

I think that reality exists and that it's knowable.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

I think art is more glorious than life but not more real.

Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.

There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality.

What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.

The world is the totality of facts, not of things.