Motivational Quotes

Reality

Reality is for people who can't face drugs.

- Peter, Laurence J.

Best Quotes about Reality

It takes only one other person to say it's so-one other point of reality to make something real.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Garrison Keillor

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

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

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

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

Albert Einstein

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

Reality is neither good nor bad; it just is.

Dale, Arbie M.

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

Lee, Al

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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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Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Lennon, John

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Realists do not fear the results of their study.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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 something you rise above.

Liza Minnelli

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

Lily Tomlin

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

Chopra, Deepak

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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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Everything is self-evident.

Descartes, Rene

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

Hob Broun

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Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

Marston, Ralph

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Reality is for people who can't face drugs.

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Jane Wagner

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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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Our intention creates our reality.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Cyril Connolly

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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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Humankind cannot stand very much reality.

T. S. Eliot

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

Smith, Huston

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

Dick, Philip K.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Ellen Herman

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

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

Moore, George

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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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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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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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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