Motivational Quotes

Reality

There are. intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.

- Barney, Natalie Clifford

Best Quotes about Reality

True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.

Cocteau, Jean

The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is.

Stein, Ben

Reality is neither good nor bad; it just is.

Dale, Arbie M.

To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible.

Dr. Karl Menninger

Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.

Brecht, Bertolt

Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.

Ballard, J. G.

The supreme reality of our time is the vulnerability of this planet.

Kennedy, John F.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Albert Einstein

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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

Eliot, T. S.

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It takes only one other person to say it's so-one other point of reality to make something real.

Pancoast, Mal

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Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?

Moore, George

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There are. intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real.

Chopra, Deepak

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In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be.

Smith, Huston

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The truly educated man is that rare individual who can separate reality from illusion.

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Reality is whatever refuses to go away when I stop believing in it.

Dick, Philip K.

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Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest --thought, action --is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go.

Pavese, Cesare

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Our intention creates our reality.

Dyer, Wayne

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Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems --but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems incredible.

Rushdie, Salman

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Reality is something you rise above.

Liza Minnelli

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Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false?

Weil, Simone

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Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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We must learn to tailor our concepts to fit reality, instead of trying to stuff reality into our concepts.

Daniels, Victor

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In an age of synthetic images and synthetic emotions, the chances of an accidental encounter with reality are remote indeed.

Daney, Serge

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Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

Marston, Ralph

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Important days don't look like anything special when they start. Invariably, the sun rises and people wake up. Coffee is swilled and eggs are swallowed. Everybody goes about the business of acting like their lives matter and then, no matter how important the events of the day end up being, the sun invariably sets. The sun rose before the soldiers stormed Omaha Beach on D-Day, and the sun set after Archduke Franz Ferdinand was killed. Sunrises and sunsets are real jerks about putting things in perspective.

Josh Lieb

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What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.

Stevens, Wallace

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Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true is what we believe. What we believe is based upon our perceptions. What we perceive depends upon what we look for. What we look for depends upon what we think. What we think depends upon what we perceive. What we perceive determines what we believe. What we believe determines what we take to be true. what we take to be true is our reality.

Zukav, Gary

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Reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Lily Tomlin

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I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.

Wilde, Oscar

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Joel: That's the movies, Ed. Try reality. Ed: No thanks.

Ellen Herman

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A cause a day keeps reality away.

Fraser, Jim

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All the things you think you should have done that you didn't do, and all of the things that you shouldn't have done, accept them. You did (or did not) do them. That's reality. That's happened. No changing the past.

Mcwilliams, Peter

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Realism...has no more to do with reality than anything else.

Hob Broun

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He who thinks he is raising a mound may only in reality be digging a pit.

Bramah, Ernest

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Realism should only be the means of expression of religious genius... or, at the other extreme, the artistic expressions of monkeys which are quite satisfied with mere imitation. In fact, art is never realistic though sometimes it is tempted to be. To be really realistic a description would have to be endless.

Camus, Albert

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Reality isn't the way you wish things to be, nor the way they appear to be, but the way they actually are.

Ringer, Robert J.

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Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it.

Jane Wagner

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The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.

Baudrillard, Jean

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No authority is higher than reality.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Everything is self-evident.

Descartes, Rene

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The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.

Henry Kissinger

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The unreal is natural, so natural that it makes of unreality the most natural of anything natural. That is what America does, and that is what America is.

Stein, Gertrude

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Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

Lee, Bruce

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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

Greene, Graham

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Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

Philip K. Dick

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The reality of life is that your perceptions -- right or wrong -- influence everything else you do. When you get a proper perspective of your perceptions, you may be surprised how many other things fall into place.

Birkman, Roger

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The genuine artist is never true to life. He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.

Stevens, Wallace

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Everything is a dangerous drug except reality, which is unendurable.

Cyril Connolly