There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.
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.
This sort of adoration of the real is but a heightening of the beau ideal.
To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed.
To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!
True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.
We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
We must learn to tailor our concepts to fit reality, instead of trying to stuff reality into our concepts.
What is a lie? It is to say what is real is not real. It is to deny the existence of what exists.
What is meant by ''reality''? It would seem to be something very erratic, very undependable — now to be found in a dusty road, now in a scrap of newspaper in the street, now a daffodil in the sun. It lights up a group in a room and stamps some casual saying
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.
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.
Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false?
You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.
You too must not count too much on your reality as you feel it today, since like yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.
Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
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