“To think about reality we must use concepts, and certain truths about concepts may reveal, or reflect, truths about reality.”

“In the elementary sense of the word, faith is our assent to a truth that transcends us; but spiritually speaking, it is our assent, not to transcendent concepts, but to immanent realities, or to Reality as such; now this Reality is our very substance.”

“The whole concept of this band is to present the ugly truth about society – warts and all, and let the chips fall where they may.”

“A psychologist said, “They used to talk about seeing only ‘reflections’ of reality. Not reality itself. The main thing wrong with a reflection is not that it isn’t real, but that it’s reversed.””

“Our reasons for critiquing the [child protection] system [are] pointless. To analyze the system and point out what's wrong with it, without the power to alter it, is masturbatory. The whole concept behind analysis is the concept behind consciousness–raising. Which is, if I show you that something is terrible, you will do something about it. That's not reality. Reality is, it's about power. It's not about education, and knowledge is not power.”

“Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.”

“We’re clusters of chemical reactions that contemplate deep truths about the nature of reality.”

“Our lies reveal as much about us as our truths.”

“Experience to be experience must be reality; truth to be true must be true of reality. Experience, truth and reality are inseparable.”

“Reality is reality. It transcends every concept. There is no concept which can adequately describe it, not even the concept of interdependence.”