16 Fictions Quotes for You to Enjoy

The truly unique trait of 'Sapiens' is our ability to create and believe fiction. All other animals use their communication system to describe reality. We use our communication system to create new realities. Of course, not all fictions are shared by all humans, but at least one has become universal in our world, and this is money. Yuval Noah Harari

Reality Communication World Money Animals Become Believe Other Our Our World System At Least One Ability Shared New Course Least Truly Trait Fiction Fictions Realities Create Use Sapiens Unique Describe Universal Humans

We are certainly not to relinquish the evidence of experiments for the sake of dreams and vain fictions of our own devising; nor are we to recede from the analogy of Nature, which is wont to be simple and always consonant to itself. Isaac Newton

We're a very imaginative species; we're very good at creating fictions. Emma Mackey

Good Very Fictions Creating Species Imaginative

The study of law left me unsatisfied, because I did not know the aspects of life which it serves. I perceived only the intricate mental juggling with fictions that did not interest me. Karl Jaspers

Life Me Law Intricate Perceived Mental Only Unsatisfied Study Know Because Juggling Left Did Fictions Which Interest Aspects Serve

Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other. Lawrence Durrell

Truth Sickness Rest Other Our We Cannot Out Rather Only Bear Perhaps Content Than Fictions Cannot Which Manufacture Each Desire

In the end, all worlds, whether they're set in the future or in New Jersey of today, are fictions. Sure, you don't got to do too much work to build a mundane world, but don't get it twisted: you still got to do some work. Junot Diaz

Work Today Future You World Too Much Build Too Worlds Some New Sure Got New Jersey Still End Get In The End Fictions Whether Much Jersey Mundane Twisted Set

All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us or about human nature or about human situations without being tied into the minutia of documentary events. Otherwise we might as well just make documentaries. Jeremy Northam

Truth Great Nature Events Human Nature Films Otherwise Dramas Tell About Documentaries Documentary Well Make Tied Without Situations Human Just Being Fictions Might Us Novels Actually

Back in the 1980s, state-of-the-nation fictions were all set in Manhattan. Now, they're all in Trump country. Early in 'S-Town,' we're introduced to an actual maze, every branch of which leads to a further junction. This may also be a metaphor. David Hepworth

According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for. Allen Tate

Invent Poet Doctors Become Ambition Confederate Society Else Would About General Could Because Been Beg According Up Personal Personal Ambitions Anything Anything Else Fictions Use Desire Set

You don't need a digital David Petraeus or a President Bush avatar to distract you from the truth. You don't need to wait decades to have disinformation beamed into your head. You just need a constant stream of misleading information, half truths, and fictions to be promoted, pushed, and peddled until they are accepted as fact. Nick Turse

Truth You Stream Wait Digital Distract Half President President Bush Promoted Constant Fact David Pushed Misleading Head Until Accepted Truths Decades Just Fictions Information Disinformation Avatar Bush Your Need

They should hold themselves absolutely upon the immovable foundation of truth and nature, whereby alone they can save themselves from misapprehensions and from the danger of being entirely carried away from reality into mere dreams and fictions. Ethan A. Hitchcock