One of the advantages of travelling the world is that you get to know the world broadly. And one of the advantages of staying in one place is that you get to know the world deeply.
Alan MooreRead
I've had years of bizarre hallucinogenic magical experiences in which I believed I had communicated with entities that may well have been disassociated parts of my own personality or conceivably some independent entity of a metaphysical nature. Both would seem equally interesting.
Interpretation
What this quote means
This quote reflects on the nature of perception and reality, suggesting that experiences may reveal aspects of ourselves or contact with external entities.
Alan Moore's quote delves into the intricate and often surreal nature of human consciousness and experience. He contemplates the possibility that hallucinogenic experiences could either be manifestations of disassociated parts of one's personality or genuine interactions with independent metaphysical entities. This dual possibility highlights the complexity of perception and the mysteries within the mind, urging a reflective understanding of consciousness and reality.
Themes
ConsciousnessRealityPerceptionIdentityExistence
In practice
Example use cases
In a discussion about the nature of reality and perception during a philosophy class.
More from Alan Moore
All quotes →The only reality we can ever truly know is that of our perceptions, our own consciousness, while that consciousness, and thus our entire reality, is made of nothing but signs and symbols. Nothing but language. Even God requires language before conceiving the Universe. See Genesis: “In the beginning was the Word.
Alan MooreRead
My main point about films is that I don't like the adaptation process, and I particularly don't like the modern way of comic book-film adaptations, where, essentially, the central characters are just franchises that can be worked endlessly to no apparent point.
Alan MooreRead
The magician to some degree is trying to drive him or herself mad in a controlled setting, within controlled laws.
Alan MooreRead
When I was working upon the ABC books, I wanted to show different ways that mainstream comics could viably have gone, that they didn't have to follow 'Watchmen' and the other 1980s books down this relentlessly dark route. It was never my intention to start a trend for darkness. I'm not a particularly dark individual.
Alan MooreRead
Love your rage, not your cage.
Alan MooreRead
Similar quotes
Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isn't necessarily sited in an external god, which can be a very unspiritual, unreligious concept.
Karen ArmstrongRead
We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.
Francis BaconRead
'1984' is not a wonder tale. Not only could it happen, but it has happened, but under different names.
Margaret AtwoodRead
Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.
Joseph HellerRead
Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity of manner to the suffering frame.
A. S. ByattRead
Ela acreditava em anjo e, porque acreditava, eles existiam" | "She believed in angels, and, because she believed, they existed
Clarice LispectorRead