Famous Quotes about Reality (76 Quotations)

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

It takes only one other person to say it's so-one other point of reality to make something real.

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.

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

No authority is higher than reality.

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

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.

Our intention creates our reality.

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

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.

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.

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

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

Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest –thought, action –is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go.

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.

Reality is for people who can't face drugs.

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

Reality is neither good nor bad; it just is.

Reality is not protected or defended by laws, proclamations, ukases, cannons and armadas. Reality is that which is sprouting all the time out of death and disintegration.