What Is Reality Quotes

There is no reality, only perception.

An artist paints his own reality.

Step outside the guidelines of the official umpires and make your own rules and your own reality.

The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be credible.

Any moment that opens us up to the reality that life is good is a parable of the supreme end for which we were made.

Fear appears from a false vision of reality.

The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.

Whatever you wish to experience in your own lifetime, cause another to experience in theirs. What you bring to another, you bring to the Self, for there is no other in ultimate reality.

Art is mainly about wrestling with material reality, not striving after a spiritual ideal.

I've never seen the Osbournes, I've never seen Paris Hilton. I'd rather read than watch reality TV. I'd rather live life than watch somebody else living it.

I don't know whether this is the best of times or the worst of times, but I assure you it's the only time you've got. You can either sit on your expletive deleted or pick a daisy.

In reality, I know I'm not hurt directly by sexism; however, my life is made less because of it, so I started thinking about the fallout from relationships in which people feed off each other.

The sensitive plate, the gas which is ionised, the fluorescent screen, are in reality receivers, into another kind of energy, chemical energy, ionic energy... luminous energy.

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.

Schools are no longer legally segregated, but because of residential patterns, housing discrimination, economic disparities and long-held custom, they most emphatically are in reality.

My major preoccupation is the question, 'What is reality?'

It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.

Progress and reaction have both turned out to be swindles. Seemingly, there is nothing left but quietism - robbing reality of its terrors by simply submitting to it.

It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.

Reality, looked at steadily, is unbearable.

Broken bottles, broken plates, broken switches, broken gates. Broken dishes, broken parts, streets are filled with broken hearts.

I'ma make sure the family keep a decent meal, no matter what I got to do or who I got to kill.

Today is a reality, tomorrow's a promise, and yesterday's history!

Perhaps it is because Venice is both liquid and solid, both air and stone, that it somehow combines all the elements crucial to make our imaginations ignite and turn fantasies into realities.

If God is God, he is the God of reality and facts and science and history.

Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.

When you do a reality show and host shows, it's hard to have secrets.

Reality simply consists of different points of view.

My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant.

As the saying goes, truth is stranger than fiction. But only when the reality has not been subsumed by foamy legends and fantasies that radiate outward from the actual event.

People have learned to escape Reality very well but too often lose their way back.

On the outside one is a star. But in reality, one is completely alone, doubting everything. To experience this loneliness of soul is the hardest thing in the world.

You're born into this life paying for the sins of somebody else's past.

Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.

I don't believe in the reality of painting, so I use different styles like clothes: it's a way to disguise myself.

Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down, we don't move; today is today, always is today.

We were trained as writers with the idea that literature is something that can change reality, that it's not just a very sophisticated entertainment, but a way to act.

In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.

The truth is never pretty.

The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom.

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

Compared with games, reality is disconnected.

Conventionality is the tacit agreement to set appearances before reality, form before content.

The real influence on my work was reality, that of my country and Latin America in general.

Anger does not make history. Power does. And power may be supplemented by anger, but it derives from more fundamental realities; geography, demographics, technology, and culture.

Can we remain indifferent before the problems associated with such realities as climate change?

Reality is a sliding door.

We never feel Christ to be a reality, until we feel Him to be a necessity

The best convent for a woman is the seclusion of her own home. There she may find her vocation and fight her battles, and there she may learn the reality and the earnestness of life.

Everybody is fundamentally the ultimate reality.