Reality Quotes

We have art so that we shall not die of reality.
Nietzsche
I reject your reality and substitute my own!
Adam Savage, Mythbusters TV show
The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational.
Sydney Harris
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Albert Einstein
Lucius annaeus seneca - there are more things, lucilius, that frighten us...
Paranoia is a finer scale of reality.
Michael W. Moore
Sren aaby kierkegaard - life is not a problem to be solved but a reality...
Reality is the only word in the English language that should always be used in quotes.
Unknown
If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values - - That all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Reality continues to ruin my life.
Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
Soren Kierkegaard
We must learn to tailor our concepts to fit reality, instead of trying to stuff reality into our concepts.
Victor Daniels
You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.
Florida Scott - Maxwell, Oprah Magazine, May 2004
John w. gardne - self - pity is easily the most destructive of the...
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
Without an adequate theory, reality is irrelevant.
Kent "Sparky" Gregory
It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
William Ralph Inge, Outspoken Essays (1919)
Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality the cost becomes prohibitive.
William F. Buckley Jr.
The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.
Toni Cade Bambera
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, Pro Publio Sestio
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.
Albert Einstein
Reality is but a poor excuse for not having an imagination.
Melissa Maye
Doubt of the reality of love ends by making us doubt everything.
Henri Frdric Amiel
A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books.
Franois Maurice Mitterrand
Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.
Theodor Reik
The stupendous fact that we stand in the midst of reality will always be something far more wonderful than anything we do.
Erich Gutkind
Do continue to believe that with your feeling and your work you are taking part in the greatest the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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
When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to be children and savages and begin to live like civilized men. Then only is freedom a reality, when men may voice their opinions because they must examine their opinions.
Walter Lippmann
I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence and a belief in our right and our responsibility to be equal members of society.
Janet Jackson
The world of reality has its limits the world of imagination is boundless.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Realism... has no more to do with reality than anything else.
Hob Broun
Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.
Warren Bennis
Heaven is not the wide blue sky but the place where corporeality is begotten in the house of the Creative.
Lu Yen
An artist does not fake reality - - He *stylizes* it.
Ayn Rand, From the article "Art and Sense of Life" in The Romantic Manifesto
People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.
Robert J. Ringe
More than ever, the creation of the ridiculous is almost impossible because of the competition it receives from reality.
Robert A. Bake
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
The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be and if we observe, we shall find, that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them.
Socrates