Motivational Quotes

Reality

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

- Hesse, Hermann

Best Quotes about Reality

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

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

Jane Wagner

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

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

Philip K. Dick

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

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Lily Tomlin

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

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Humankind cannot stand very much reality.

T. S. Eliot

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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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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

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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Ellen Herman

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

Chopra, Deepak

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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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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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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, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Smith, Huston

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Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Lennon, John

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

Cyril Connolly

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Reality is for people who can't face drugs.

Peter, Laurence J.

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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

Greene, Graham

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

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Eliot, George

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

Lee, Al

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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 neither good nor bad; it just is.

Dale, Arbie M.

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Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

Marston, Ralph

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No authority is higher than reality.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio