Motivational Quotes

Reality

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

Best Quotes about Reality

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

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

Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

Marston, Ralph

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

Chopra, Deepak

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

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

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

Dr. Karl Menninger

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

Smith, Huston

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Philip K. Dick

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Reality is something you rise above.

Liza Minnelli

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Realists do not fear the results of their study.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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A cause a day keeps reality away.

Fraser, Jim

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

Cyril Connolly

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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Lee, Al

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Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be -- like the reality of yesterday -- an illusion tomorrow.

Pirandello, Luigi

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

Bramah, Ernest

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

Lee, Bruce

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

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Everything is self-evident.

Descartes, Rene

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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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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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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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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 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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No authority is higher than reality.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Garrison Keillor