Shinji: I dont understand. I dont understand what reality is. — Reality

"You have to start with the truth. The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere. Because any decision-making that is based upon lies or ignorance cant lead to a good conclusion."

"You cannot search for reality, or for what you will, in isolation. It comes into being only in relationship, only when there is right relationship between man and man. So the love of man is the search for reality."

"Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality."

"If the reality we experience is the only thing that we have experienced, how do we know that there isn’t anything beyond our reality?"

"Reality is reality. It transcends every concept. There is no concept which can adequately describe it, not even the concept of interdependence."

"I would like to remind you that the fact that you see the world picture as one of outstanding chaos, of striving ideologies and warring forces, of the persecution of minorities, of hatreds which are working out into a furious preparation for war, and of world anxiety and terror does not really mean that you are seeing the picture as it is in reality. You are seeing what is superficial, temporal, ephemeral and entirely concerned with the form aspect."