Motivational Quotes

Reality

No authority is higher than reality.

- Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

Best Quotes about Reality

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Jane Wagner

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

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

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

Weil, Simone

In an age of synthetic images and synthetic emotions, the chances of an accidental encounter with reality are remote indeed.

Daney, Serge

Reality is for people who can't face drugs.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Reality is neither good nor bad; it just is.

Dale, Arbie M.

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

Ellen Herman

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

Garrison Keillor

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

Trilling, Lionel

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

Lee, Al

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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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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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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Chopra, Deepak

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

Cocteau, Jean

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Our intention creates our reality.

Dyer, Wayne

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Realists do not fear the results of their study.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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 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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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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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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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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Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Lennon, John

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

Dick, Philip K.

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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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No authority is higher than reality.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Smith, Huston

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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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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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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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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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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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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