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

In the American metaphysic, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant.

Trilling, Lionel

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

The realist is the man, who having weighed all the visible factors in a given situation and having found that the odds are against him, decides that fighting is useless.

Sales, Raoul De

What is meant by reality? It would seem to be something very erratic, very undependable -- now to be found in a dusty road, now in a scrap of newspaper in the street, now a daffodil in the sun. It lights up a group in a room and stamps some casual saying

Woolf, Virginia

A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.

Weil, Simone

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

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

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

Cyril Connolly

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

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What is a lie? It is to say what is real is not real. It is to deny the existence of what exists.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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Realists do not fear the results of their study.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Hob Broun

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

Moore, George

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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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Reality is not protected or defended by laws, proclamations, ukases, cannons and armadas. Reality is that which is sprouting all the time out of death and disintegration.

Miller, Henry

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

Albert Einstein

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Reality is for people who can't face drugs.

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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It has sometimes been said that we find nowhere in nature an analogue of the difference between happens and is, on the one hand, and ought, on the other hand.

Kohler, Wolfgang

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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

Greene, Graham

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You bluffed me! I don't like it when people bluff me. It makes me question my perception of reality.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.

Hesse, Hermann

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Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

Marston, Ralph

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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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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

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

Dr. Karl Menninger

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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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I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, Doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it.

Mary Chase

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Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Ellen Herman

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People see the world not as it is, but as they are.

Lee, Al

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

Lily Tomlin

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Humankind cannot stand very much reality.

T. S. Eliot

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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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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.

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

Bramah, Ernest

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Reality is neither good nor bad; it just is.

Dale, Arbie M.

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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

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Fear not what is not real, never was and never will be. What is real, always was and cannot be destroyed.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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A cause a day keeps reality away.

Fraser, Jim