What Is Reality Quotes

We need to care about reality more than we care about what we want to be true about it.

We're not really indigenous to this world, this world being a temporal plane of reality.

It I talked about Watergate, I was described as struggling to free myself from the morass. If I did not talk about Watergate, I was accused of being out of touch with reality.

I'm writing a novel about two actresses who go to New York, because that's what I know about. One has lost touch with reality, disappears and is picked up by a man.

The clever reader who is capable or reading between these lines what does not stand written in them but is nevertheless implied will be able to form some conception.

The stories I create are never as awful as reality.

A thing either is what it appears to be; or it is not, but yet appears to be; or it is, but does not appear to be; or it is not, and does not appear to be.

Our relationship to reality and to our experience is all based upon the ideas in our mind that we're always trying to live up to.

People think we don't give a toss about the game, but when I walked out of Windsor Park that night I felt lower than a snake's belly. The reality is still there.

At its edges, a painting makes its surrender to reality. The ways in which it can do so are endlessly revealing, as infinite as the potential forms of painting itself.

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

Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one's taste for choosing.

'Reality' is a notion that journalists take for granted.

The dream is over. I gotta get down to reality. The good old days is garbage.

Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.

You give up your future, lose your dreams, are stained with despair . . . Yet at the same time you shake off your past, fight reality, and never lose your nobility.

Our tendency is to run from the painful realities or try to change them as soon as possible. But cure without care makes us into rulers, controllers, manipulators.

I have no illusions about my position in this world as an actor or anything like that. I'm very realistic. Reality is a very liberating thing.

Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?

As soon as you look at the world through an ideology, you are finished. No reality fits ideology.

The notion of the world as a village is becoming a reality.

After the strike, I lost interest. In reality, neither players nor owners care in the least about the fans. The greed of both factions has destroyed baseball's credibility, at least for the present.

Unilateral tolerance in a world of intolerance is like unilateral disarmament in a world of armed camps: it regards hope as a better basis for policy than reality.

Black and white photography is truly quite a 'departure from reality', and the transition from one aspect of visual magic to another was not as complete as many imagine.

Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

John needed to escape his reality. I understood completely but I couldn't go along with him.

My older brother was involved in the folk movement. We would gather every weekend in Washington Park. The folk songs were so important to my reality.

The poetry is all in the anticipation, for there is none in reality.

To the general public, show business may just mean the artistic part, but the dollar and cents element is the reality every performer has to face.

Irony is the bringing together of two contradictory truths and to make out of the contradiction a new truth, with a laugh or a smile.

Our view of reality is only a view, not reality itself.

I have no shortage of material or offers, it's just a case of what you select to do. But I think it's realistic that my chances of playing Romeo are now over.

You have two things happening: You have the cultural and economic reality of men falling apart and traditional masculinity falling apart.

'Fringe' is a sci-fi show. But once you go beyond the genre, you're immersed in a profound reality.

If you seek just a little truth, as most, you should not ignore abstract forms, the basis from which all short-lived experiences we call reality springs.

Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.

Virtual reality has nothing on Calvin.

Artists erase reality to a greater or lesser extent, and substitute their own reality - created by their brains, instead.

...the reality of intelligent British speech... uses blasphemus, coital and cloacal expletives as a matter of course.

I know I have this image but in reality, if you take all my records, I had to use five or six [tracks].

Once it's in you to being a starter, you always want to be that. But you understand the circumstances and you understand what you can and can't do. And that's the reality of it.

There are only two things that are absolute realities, love and knowledge, and you can't escape them.

Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality.

I was taught by my grandfather that anything that your mind can conceive, you can have. It's a reality.

One can hardly be Indian and not know that almost every accent, which hand you eat your food with, has some deeper symbolic truth, reality.

For the freedoms our founding fathers not only dreamed about, but made into reality. It is that same pursuit of freedom today that is helping to make our world a safer place.

Accept that you are that - you are the matchless, eternal reality. That's true seeing, true humility.

Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

When I create a false reality, I always try to create a plausible structure to help convince people.

Perhaps art is a quest for the perfect, or even the imperfect. Reality always falls short on both sides.