Motivational Quotes

Reality

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

- Weil, Simone

Best Quotes about Reality

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

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

Albert Einstein

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

Jane Wagner

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

Eliot, George

It takes only one other person to say it's so-one other point of reality to make something real.

Pancoast, Mal

Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

Marston, Ralph

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

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

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

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

Lee, Al

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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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No authority is higher than reality.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Everything is self-evident.

Descartes, Rene

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

Weil, Simone

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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 in our century is not something to be faced.

Greene, Graham

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

Cyril Connolly

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Realists do not fear the results of their study.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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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Our intention creates our reality.

Dyer, Wayne

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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

Eliot, T. S.

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Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

Carlyle, Thomas

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A cause a day keeps reality away.

Fraser, Jim

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Reality is neither good nor bad; it just is.

Dale, Arbie M.

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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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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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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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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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Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Lennon, John

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

Ellen Herman

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

Garrison Keillor

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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 is for people who can't face drugs.

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.

Rostand, Jean

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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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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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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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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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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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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 something you rise above.

Liza Minnelli

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.