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
You see, there's the way things seemed and then there's the way things were and one is so often the total reverse of the other.
Interpretation
What this quote means
This quote highlights the disparity between perception and reality.
Alan Moore's quote emphasizes the phenomenon where people's perceptions of events or situations can often be misleading or completely opposite to the actual truth. It serves as a reminder to question assumptions and to understand that what we see and what is real may not always align, urging a deeper exploration of truths beyond appearances.
Themes
PerceptionRealityTruthAssumptionsMisleading
In practice
Example use cases
In a discussion on how social media shapes our reality, this quote can illustrate the difference between online personas and actual lives.
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All quotes βThe 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: βIn the beginning was the Word.
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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.
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