Motivational Quotes

Reality

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.

Best Quotes about Reality

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

Bramah, Ernest

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

Dick, Philip K.

Reality is something you rise above.

Liza Minnelli

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

Eliot, George

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

Hob Broun

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

Dr. Karl Menninger

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

Ellen Herman

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

Lee, Bruce

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Realists do not fear the results of their study.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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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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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 for people who can't face drugs.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Trilling, Lionel

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

Lee, Al

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Moore, George

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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 merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Albert Einstein

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

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

Jane Wagner

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

Weil, Simone

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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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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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Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

Marston, Ralph

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Reality is neither good nor bad; it just is.

Dale, Arbie M.

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A cause a day keeps reality away.