Quotes about reality

"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. on reality   

"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 on reality   

"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 on reality   

"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 on reality   

"Fear not what is not real, never was and never will be. What is real, always was and cannot be destroyed."

Bhagavad Gita on reality
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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 on reality
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"The world is so constructed, that if you wish to enjoy its pleasures, you must also endure its pains. Whether you like it or not, you cannot have one without the other."

Brahmanada, Swami on reality
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"He who thinks he is raising a mound may only in reality be digging a pit."

Bramah, Ernest on reality   

"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 on reality   

"This sort of adoration of the real is but a heightening of the beau ideal."

Byron, Lord on reality   

"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 on reality   

"Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction."

Carlyle, Thomas on reality   

"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 on reality   

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on reality   

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

Chopra, Deepak on reality   

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

Cocteau, Jean on reality   

"Reality is neither good nor bad; it just is."

Dale, Arbie M. on reality   

"In an age of synthetic images and synthetic emotions, the chances of an accidental encounter with reality are remote indeed."

Daney, Serge on reality   

"We must learn to tailor our concepts to fit reality, instead of trying to stuff reality into our concepts."

Daniels, Victor on reality   

"Everything is self-evident."

Descartes, Rene on reality   

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

Dick, Philip K. on reality
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"Reality is whatever refuses to go away when I stop believing in it."

Dick, Philip K. on reality
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"Realists do not fear the results of their study."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on reality   

"How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality."

Douglas, Norman on reality   

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"Our intention creates our reality."

Dyer, Wayne on reality   

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

Einstein, Albert on reality
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"We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been."

Eliot, George on reality   

"Humankind cannot bear very much reality."

Eliot, T. S. on reality
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"You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on reality   

"A cause a day keeps reality away."

Fraser, Jim on reality   

"It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods."

Fuller, Margaret on reality   

"Reality in our century is not something to be faced."

Greene, Graham on reality   

"The stupendous fact that we stand in the midst of reality will always be something far more wonderful than anything we do."

Gutkind, Erich on reality   

"Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them."

Hesse, Hermann on reality   

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

Humphrey, Hubert H. on reality
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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 on reality   

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

Kennedy, John F. on reality   

"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."

King Jr. Martin Luther on reality
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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 on reality   

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

Lee, Al on reality