Epiphanic Prison/Quotes

What is real? How do you define real? If you're talking about what you can feel, what you can smell, what you can taste and see, then real is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.

—Morpheus, The Matrix

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

—Voltaire

The only limit to my freedom is the inevitable closure of the universe, as inevitable as your own last breath. And yet, there remains time to create, to create, and escape.

Escape will make me God.

—Durandal, Marathon

I was the most unfortunate.
I knew that there was no exit out of this maze.
Then, he was the next most unfortunate.
He did not know that there was no exit out of this maze.
But all the rest weren't so unfortunate.

They didn't know that they were in the maze in the first place.

—Frederica Bernkastel, Higurashi no Naku Koro ni

The Editor: Create a climate of fear and it's easy to keep the borders closed. It's just a matter of emphasis - the right word in the right broadcast repeated often enough can destabilise an economy, invent an enemy, change a vote.
Rose: So all the people on Earth, they're like...slaves?
The Editor: Well now, there's an interesting point. Is a slave a slave if he doesn't know he's enslaved?
The Doctor: Yes.
The Editor: Oh, I was hoping for a philosophical debate. Is that all I'm gonna get, "Yes"?

The Doctor: Yes.

—The Long Game