Close your eyes, perhaps your oatmeal will taste like a bowl of snot. Open your eyes, are you sure what you see is real? What is real? How do you define real? Your mind makes your experience real.
00.40.15
Neo: This isn't real?
Morpheus: 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.
00.51.55
Morpheus: Do you believe that my being stronger or faster has anything to do with my muscles in this place? Do you think that's air you're breathing now?
00.52.50
Morpheus: What are you waiting for? You're faster than this. Don't think you are, know you are.
00.55.25
Neo: I thought it wasn't real.
Morpheus: Your mind makes it real.
Neo: If you're killed in the matrix, you die here?
Morpheus: The body cannot live without the mind.
00.57.00
Morpheus: You have to understand––most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system and they will fight to protect it.
01.04.00
Cypher: After 9 years, you know what I realize. Ignorance is a bliss.
01.05.25
Mouse: If you close your eyes, if almost feels like you're eating runny eggs. [talking about the oatmeal]
X: Yeah, or a bowl of snot.
Mouse: Do you know what it really reminds me of? Tastee wheat. Did you every eat taste wheat?
Switch: No, but technically, neither did you.
Mouse: That's exactly my point. Exactly. Because you have to wonder now … How do you the machines really know what taste wheat tasted like, huh? Maybe they got it wrong. Maybe what I think taste wheat tasted like actually tasted like, uh , oatmeal or, uh … or tuna fish. That makes you wonder about a lot of things. You take chicken, for example. Maybe they couldn't figure out what to make chicken taste like, which is why chicken tastes like everything.
01.06.40
Mouse: Pay no attention to these hypocrites, Neo. To deny our impulses is to design the very thing that makes us human.
01.12.05
Child: It is not the spoon that bends. It is only yourself.
01.19.13
Trinity: A Déjà Vu is usually a glitch in the matrix. It happens when they change something.
01.28.30
Trinity: It is not true, cypher. He set us free.
Cypher: Free… You call this free? All I do is what he tells me to do. If I had to choose between that and the matrix…I'd choose the matrix.
01.31.50
Agent Smith: Billions of people just living out their lives…oblivious.
Agent Smith: Did you know that the first matrix was designed to be a perfect human world, where none suffered, where everyone would be happy? It was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost. Some believed that we lacked the programming language to describe your perfect world. But I believe that as a species, human beings define their reality through misery and suffering. So the perfect world was a dream that your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from , which is why the matrix was redesigned to this … the peak of your civilization.
01.37.36
Agent Smith: I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to you when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment. But you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply an multiply until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You are a plague. And we are the cure.
01.52.10
Morpheus: There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.
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