Motivational Quotes

Reality

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

- Humphrey, Hubert H.

Best Quotes about Reality

A cause a day keeps reality away.

Fraser, Jim

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

Daniels, Victor

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

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

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

Hob Broun

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

Ellen Herman

Humankind cannot stand very much reality.

T. S. Eliot

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

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Everything is self-evident.

Descartes, Rene

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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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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

Greene, Graham

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

Smith, Huston

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

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Lee, Al

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Reality is something you rise above.

Liza Minnelli

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

Cyril Connolly

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Weil, Simone

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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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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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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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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Trilling, Lionel

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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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Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

Lee, Bruce

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Our intention creates our reality.

Dyer, Wayne

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Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

Carlyle, Thomas

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No authority is higher than reality.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Philip K. Dick

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

Cocteau, Jean