Motivational Quotes

Reality

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

Best Quotes about Reality

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

Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

Greene, Graham

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

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

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

I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, Doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it.

Mary Chase

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

Trilling, Lionel

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

Moore, George

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

Eliot, George

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

Smith, Huston

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

Weil, Simone

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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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Reality is neither good nor bad; it just is.

Dale, Arbie M.

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Humankind cannot stand very much reality.

T. S. Eliot

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Our intention creates our reality.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Chopra, Deepak

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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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Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Lee, Bruce

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Lily Tomlin

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Everything is self-evident.

Descartes, Rene

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Realists do not fear the results of their study.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Dick, Philip K.

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Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Garrison Keillor

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Reality is something you rise above.

Liza Minnelli

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

Albert Einstein

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

Lee, Al

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

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

Ellen Herman