My major preoccupation is the question, 'What is reality?'

My major preoccupation is the question, 'What is reality ?' Many of my stories and novels deal with psychotic states or drug-induced states by…

— Philip K. Dick

“Is time real? …In one sense, it’s a silly question. The “reality” of something is only an interesting issue if its a well-defined concept…

— Sean Carroll

To be or not to be, that is not a question, because reality transcends both notions of birth and death, of being and non-being

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

The sad fact is that we're not educated to be aware and therefore able to question the reality created by our thinking. We don't…

— Richard Moss

Question reality, especially if it contradicts the evidence of your hopes and dreams.

— Robert Breault

And of course, in my writing, there is the constant theme of music, love of, preoccupation with, music. Music is the single thread making…

— Philip K. Dick

All the world’s major religions, with their emphasis on love, compassion, patience, tolerance and forgiveness, can and do promote inner values. But the reality…

— Dalai Lama

Buddhism resonated very powerfully with a lot of my preoccupations.

— Pankaj Mishra

This constant, unproductive preoccupation with all the things we have to do is the single largest consumer of time and energy.

— Kerry Gleeson

There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.

— Penelope Lively

Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.

— Cormac McCarthy

If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people's expectations, then you can go mad.

— Benedict Cumberbatch

Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo.…

— Matsuo Basho

One response was given by the innkeeper when Mary and Joseph wanted to find a room where the Child could be born. The innkeeper…

— Billy Graham

I'm simply saying that our deepest thoughts, desires and preoccupations manifest themselves in art, whether we intend them to or not. That's what art…

— Simon Pegg