Motivational Quotes

Reality

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

Best Quotes about Reality

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

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

No authority is higher than reality.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

Weil, Simone

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

Ellen Herman

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

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

Moore, George

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

Philip K. Dick

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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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Realists do not fear the results of their study.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Reality is neither good nor bad; it just is.

Dale, Arbie M.

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Bramah, Ernest

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

Stein, Ben

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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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I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.

Garrison Keillor

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Humankind cannot stand very much reality.

T. S. Eliot

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Hob Broun

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

Lee, Al

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Everything is self-evident.

Descartes, Rene

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

Jane Wagner

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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

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Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

Marston, Ralph

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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 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 leaves a lot to the imagination.

Lennon, John

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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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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Eliot, George

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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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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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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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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 in our century is not something to be faced.

Greene, Graham

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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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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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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