Motivational Quotes

Reality

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

Best Quotes about Reality

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

Trilling, Lionel

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

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

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

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

Dick, Philip K.

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

Eliot, George

No authority is higher than reality.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Bramah, Ernest

Reality is neither good nor bad; it just is.

Dale, Arbie M.

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

Garrison Keillor

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

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

Philip K. Dick

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

Lee, Bruce

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

Lee, Al

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Lennon, John

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

Hob Broun

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

Moore, George

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

Weil, Simone

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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 in our century is not something to be faced.

Greene, Graham

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Realists do not fear the results of their study.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Reality is for people who can't face drugs.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Chopra, Deepak

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

Albert Einstein

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Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Our intention creates our reality.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Ellen Herman

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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.