Motivational Quotes

Reality

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

- Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Best Quotes about Reality

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

Albert Einstein

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

Moore, George

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

Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be -- like the reality of yesterday -- an illusion tomorrow.

Pirandello, Luigi

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

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

Mary Chase

Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

Greene, Graham

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

Chopra, Deepak

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

Eliot, George

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

Philip K. Dick

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

Hob Broun

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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 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 for people who can't face drugs.

Peter, Laurence J.

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Our intention creates our reality.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Reality is neither good nor bad; it just is.

Dale, Arbie M.

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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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No authority is higher than reality.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.

Rostand, Jean

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

Ellen Herman

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

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Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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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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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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Realism, whether it be socialist or not, falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into account our basic truths and our fundamental obsessions: love, death, astonishment. It presents man in a reduced and estranged perspective. Truth is in our dreams, in the imagination.

Ionesco, Eugene

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

Smith, Huston

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

Trilling, Lionel

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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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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 is something you rise above.

Liza Minnelli

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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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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

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To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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One might speak to great length of the three corners of reality what was seen, what was thought to be seen, and what was thought ought to be seen.

Bell, Marvel

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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

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You too must not count too much on your reality as you feel it today, since like yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.

Pirandello, Luigi

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Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Lennon, John

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The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Lincoln, Abraham

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