Motivational Quotes

Reality

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

- Cocteau, Jean

Best Quotes about Reality

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

Hob Broun

Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Smith, Huston

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

Eliot, George

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

Chopra, Deepak

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

Ellen Herman

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

Albert Einstein

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

Trilling, Lionel

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

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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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Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true is what we believe. What we believe is based upon our perceptions. What we perceive depends upon what we look for. What we look for depends upon what we think. What we think depends upon what we perceive. What we perceive determines what we believe. What we believe determines what we take to be true. what we take to be true is our reality.

Zukav, Gary

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Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Lennon, John

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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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He who thinks he is raising a mound may only in reality be digging a pit.

Bramah, Ernest

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I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.

Rostand, Jean

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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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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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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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What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Lee, Al

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I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Our intention creates our reality.

Dyer, Wayne

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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

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

Cyril Connolly

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No authority is higher than reality.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Dick, Philip K.

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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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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

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

Marston, Ralph

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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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Important days don't look like anything special when they start. Invariably, the sun rises and people wake up. Coffee is swilled and eggs are swallowed. Everybody goes about the business of acting like their lives matter and then, no matter how important the events of the day end up being, the sun invariably sets. The sun rose before the soldiers stormed Omaha Beach on D-Day, and the sun set after Archduke Franz Ferdinand was killed. Sunrises and sunsets are real jerks about putting things in perspective.

Josh Lieb

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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

Greene, Graham

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I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.

Garrison Keillor

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Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?

Moore, George

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Realists do not fear the results of their study.