Motivational Quotes

Reality

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

Best Quotes about Reality

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

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

Lee, Al

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

Albert Einstein

Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

Greene, Graham

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

Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

Eliot, T. S.

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No authority is higher than reality.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Bramah, Ernest

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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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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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Reality is for people who can't face drugs.

Peter, Laurence J.

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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

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A cause a day keeps reality away.

Fraser, Jim

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

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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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Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Lennon, John

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

Smith, Huston

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

Lily Tomlin

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Reality is something you rise above.

Liza Minnelli

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

Jane Wagner

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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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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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Everything is self-evident.

Descartes, Rene

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

Philip K. Dick

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

Garrison Keillor

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

Weil, Simone