Reality Quotes

Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in the mirror which waits always before or behind.

Catherine Drinker Bowen

An artist does not fake reality - - He *stylizes* it.

Ayn Rand, From the article "Art and Sense of Life" in The Romantic Manifesto

What is reality, anyway Just a collective hunch.

Jane Wagne

Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.

Alexis Carrel

Hope is the denial of reality.

Margaret Weis

The power of illustrative anecdotes often lies not in how well they present reality, but in how well they reflect the core beliefs of their audience.

David P. Mikkelson, Snopes. com, 04 - 10 - 04

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to.... The feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Vincent Van Gogh

Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality the cost becomes prohibitive.

William F. Buckley Jr.

There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.

Hermann Hesse

All the best stories are but one story in reality - - The story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

A. C. Benson

But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink - Blot, you know.

Alan Watts

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

Henry Mille

I reject your reality and substitute my own!

Adam Savage, Mythbusters TV show

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

Garrison Keillo

A theory must be tempered with reality.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

Unknown

Paranoia is a finer scale of reality.

Michael W. Moore

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity.

Cicero

Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.

Warren Bennis

In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.

Marya Mannes

Distance lasts a day. But reality lasts a lifetime.

Dr. Laura Schlessinger, The Dr. Laura radio show

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 Kissinge

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Hob Broun

We are shaped by each other. We adjust not to the reality of a world, but to the reality of other thinkers.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

The structure of language determines not only thought, but reality itself.

Noam Chomsky, Ruth Anshen, Biography of an Idea (Mt. Kisco, NY: Moyer Bell Limited, 1986), pg. 196

Be as radical as reality.

Lenin

Self - Pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.

John W. Gardne

The world of reality has its limits the world of imagination is boundless.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Unless a man or woman has experienced the darkness of the soul he or she can know nothing of that transforming laughter without which no hint of the ultimate reality of the opposites can be faintly intuited.

Helen Luke

People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.

Robert J. Ringe

Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.

Alexis Carrel

The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.

Toni Cade Bambera

Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.

Anon.

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality and then there are those who turn one into the other.

Douglas H. Everett

Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.

Sren Aaby Kierkegaard