Motivational Quotes

Reality

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

- Dr. Karl Menninger

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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Reality is something you rise above.

Liza Minnelli

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

Cyril Connolly

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.

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

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

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

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

Lily Tomlin

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

Garrison Keillor

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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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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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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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Our intention creates our reality.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Weil, Simone

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Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Lennon, John

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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Dick, Philip K.

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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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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

Greene, Graham

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Reality is neither good nor bad; it just is.

Dale, Arbie M.

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

Albert Einstein

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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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A cause a day keeps reality away.

Fraser, Jim

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

Jane Wagner

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

Hob Broun

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

Bramah, Ernest

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

Moore, George

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

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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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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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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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Humankind cannot stand very much reality.

T. S. Eliot

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

Ellen Herman

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Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

Carlyle, Thomas