Reality Quotes

Woe to him whose beliefs play fast and loose with the order which realities follow in his experience; they will lead him nowhere or else make false connections

There must always be a discrepncy between concepts and reality, because the former are static and discontinuous while the latter is dynamic and flowing

Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.

When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.

This life is only the anteroom of a greater reality to come.

All the events said to have been witnessed by John alone are omitted by John alone. This fact seems fatal either to the reality of the events in question or to the genuineness of the Fourth Gospel.

The Orgasmic Death Gimmick is rather complicated. It could be called the whole birth-death cycle of action, persuading people that birth and death are realities.

The world is filled with invisible realities. But, if people do not see or hear, then these realities do not exist.

Imagination is the means of deep insight and sympathy, the power to conceive and express images removed from normal objective reality.

Nourish your hopes, but do not overlook realities.

It is no use dealing with illusions and make-believes. We must look at the facts. The world ... is too dangerous for anyone to be able to afford to nurse illusions. We must look at realities.

If you don't have dreams, how do you maneuver reality? Where do you get the ideas to change reality if not from dreams?

As artists, the pleasure is to really have your work resonate and mean something. Art takes its inspiration from reality.

Many of the Israelis begin to understand and discover the realities and the facts. They can't demolish five million Palestinians. They can't annihilate them.

Who imagined that what I said upon my departure from Beirut would become a reality, when I said the volcano and typhoon which started in Beirut will not stop.

We are very lucky really, because we can create our own reality, John [Lennon] and me, but we know the important thing is to communicate with other people.

What's great about this hotel [Sheraton Universal Hotel in Universal City, CA] is that I stayed here for a month when I was competing on the Oprah reality show. So it's like coming home.

In reality, in the history of it, the captains are only really in charge during an engagement. The rest of the time, everyone had got the same vote. It's been very interesting finding that.

'A reality shaped around your own desires' - there is something sociopathic in that ambition.

Can't a rapper insist, like other artists, on a fictional reality, in which he is somehow still on the corner, despite occupying the penthouse suite?

I was never shielded from the realities of what it meant to be an artist and that made me afraid to be an artist because I wanted to know that my life was secure.

Desire is one of the main drivers in creating your reality; utilise desire by focusing it upon the things you want to achieve in life.

What you think about the most drives your reality; control your thoughts to manage your reality.

Open your mind to the infinite possibilities that exist for you; then create within your reality the things that you desire.

Il n'y a de réalité que dans l'action.(There is no reality except in action.)

When you have money in hand, only you forget who are you .But when you do not have any money in your hand, the whole world forget who you are.It's life.

Well, the way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test reality we must see it on the tight rope. When the verities become acrobats, we can judge them.

The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.

If one is to rule, and to continue ruling, one must be able to dislocate the sense of reality.

Positive words can bend your world in your favor.

But, said Alice, if the world has absolutely no sense, who's stopping us from inventing one?

Summer is the time when it is too hot to do the job that it was too cold to do last winter.

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

Reality is frequently inaccurate.

Nothing ever becomes real 'til it is experienced.

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform a million realities.

Do you imagine the universe is agitated? Go into the desert at night and look at the stars. This practice should answer the question.

Shoving feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.

And now you'll be telling storiesof my coming backand they won't be false, and they won't be truebut they'll be real

There is nothing more real than what cannot be seen and there is nothing more certain than what cannot be heard.

It is simply expression, as Henry says, that gives reality to things.

Out of the unreal shadows of the night comes back the real life that we had known

I do not know where the error lies. I do not pretend to set people right, but I do see they are often wrong.

The memories: they are the reality.

There is nothing more real than light.

...just because you see something, it doesn’t mean to say it’s there. And if you don’t see something, it doesn’t mean to say it’s not there. It’s only what your senses bring to your attention.

We have abolished the real world: what world is left? The apparent world perhaps? . . . But no! with the real world we have also abolished the apparent world.

You can find in a text whatever you bring, if you will stand between it and the mirror of your imagination. You may not see your ears, but they will be there.

Now that he wanted to feel like he was having a bad dream, he wasn't. He was having a bad reality, and that was something from which you could not wake.

Life is not fair, get used to it