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

Reality is something you rise above.

Liza Minnelli

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

Daniels, Victor

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

Dr. Karl Menninger

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Our intention creates our reality.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Smith, Huston

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

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

Weil, Simone

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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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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

Greene, Graham

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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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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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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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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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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Trilling, Lionel

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

Eliot, George

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

Ellen Herman

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Cyril Connolly

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Dick, Philip K.

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

Garrison Keillor