Motivational Quotes

Reality

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

Best Quotes about Reality

No authority is higher than reality.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

Reality is neither good nor bad; it just is.

Dale, Arbie M.

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

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

Cyril Connolly

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

Albert Einstein

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.

Everything is self-evident.

Descartes, Rene

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

Smith, Huston

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

Moore, George

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

Dick, Philip K.

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

Dr. Karl Menninger

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

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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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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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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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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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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 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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Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

Marston, Ralph

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

Ellen Herman

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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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Our intention creates our reality.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Garrison Keillor

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Weil, Simone

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Humankind cannot stand very much reality.

T. S. Eliot

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

Trilling, Lionel

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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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Reality is for people who can't face drugs.

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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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