Motivational Quotes

Reality

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

- Cyril Connolly

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

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

Trilling, Lionel

A cause a day keeps reality away.

Fraser, Jim

Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

Carlyle, Thomas

Reality is something you rise above.

Liza Minnelli

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

Hob Broun

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Lennon, John

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

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Everything is self-evident.

Descartes, Rene

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

Dick, Philip K.

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Realists do not fear the results of their study.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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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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No authority is higher than reality.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Lee, Bruce

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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Ellen Herman

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

Albert Einstein

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

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

Dr. Karl Menninger

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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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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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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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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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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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Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

Marston, Ralph

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

Cyril Connolly

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Smith, Huston