What rules the world is ideas, because ideas define the…

“What rules the world is ideas,” Kristol once wrote, “because ideas define the way reality is perceived.”

— Anonymous

“Ideas define us, our past, our present, and most importantly, our future.”

— P.W. Cross

When reality is perceived in its nature of ultimate perfection, the practitioner has reached a level of wisdom called non-discrimination mind - a wondrous…

— Nhat Hanh

“What if reality (as perceived) were simply an extension of the self? Wouldn't that color the way each individual experiences the world?”

— David Mazzucchelli

“In an era where Existence is incontestable, Truth is subjective, and Reality is perceived, fiction must mediate between the three.”

— Henry Martin

Did Buddha teach that the many was real and the ego unreal, while orthodox Hinduism regards the One as the real, and the many…

— Swami Vivekananda

“Eystein had also resorted to a weird form of trickery: among his decorations of wood or wool, gold or velvet, he would insert one…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Reality is neither the subject nor the object of true art which creates its own special reality having nothing to do with the average…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Perception is reality. If you are perceived to be something, you might as well be it because that's the truth in people's minds.

— Steve Young

“Once the world of ideas has been transformed, reality cannot hold out for long. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel”

— Tom Holland

Plato's world of ideas is beautiful.

— Carl Jung

The world of ideas which it [mathematics] discloses or illuminates, the contemplation of divine beauty and order which it induces, the harmonious connexion of…

— James Joseph Sylvester

We cut up time and space and mind and place and being and non-being. We create a world of ideas. This is duality, pairs…

— Frederick Lenz

There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than politicians think. We…

— Michel Foucault

The all-round liberally educated man, from Palaeolithic times to the time when the earth shall become a cold cinder, will always be the same,…

— Henry Fairfield Osborn