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The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security a delusion, and the tyranny of the dull mind forever threatens -- but

The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security a delusion, and the tyranny of the dull mind forever threatens -- but our lives are not as limited as we think they are, all things are possible, laughter is holier than piety, freedom is sweeter than fame, and in the end it's love and love alone that really matters.

Tom Robbins

Laughter, Reality, Thinking

"Gracie goes to schooner school" by Tom Robbins, www.seattlepi.com. May 24, 2007.

We're making it up. The world, the universe, life, reality. Especially reality.

Tom Robbins

Reality, World, Universe

Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.486, Bantam

Reality whistles a different tune underwater.

Tom Robbins

Reality, Tunes, Underwater

Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.84, Bantam

Those people who recognise that imagination is reality's master, we call sages, and those who act upon it, we call artists.

Tom Robbins

Artist, Reality, People

Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.108, Bantam

Live the beauty or your own reality.

Tom Robbins

Reality

Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical. If there's any one word -- if you had to pick one word to describe the nature of the universe -- I think that word would be paradox. That's true at the subatomic level, right through sociological, psychological, philosophical levels on up to cosmic levels.

Tom Robbins

Philosophical, Reality, Thinking

Laws, it is said, are for the protection of the people. It's unfortunate that there are no statistics on the number of lives that are clobbered yearly as a result of laws: outmoded laws; laws that found their way onto the books as a result of ignorance, hysteria or political haymaking; antilife laws; biased laws; laws that pretend that reality is fixed and nature is definable; laws that deny people the right to refuse protection. A survey such as that could keep a dozen dull sociologists out of mischief for months.

Tom Robbins

Book, Ignorance, Reality

The inability to correctly perceive reality is often responsible for humans' insane behavior. And every time they substitute an all-purpose, sloppy slang word for the words that would accurately describe an emotion or a situation, it lowers their reality orientations, pushes them farther from shore, out onto the foggy waters of alienation and confusion.

Tom Robbins

Reality, Water, Confusion

Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.77, Bantam