Reality Quotes
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
Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.Philip K. Dick, Valis
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
A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books.Franois Maurice Mitterrand
But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink - Blot, you know.Alan Watts
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.Soren Kierkegaard
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
The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.Max De Pree
The stupendous fact that we stand in the midst of reality will always be something far more wonderful than anything we do.Erich Gutkind
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.Friedrich Nietzsche
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.
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
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man.Friedrich Nietzsche
Without an adequate theory, reality is irrelevant.Kent "Sparky" Gregory
Petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of reality.Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Reality is but a poor excuse for not having an imagination.Melissa Maye
Virtual Reality is like mainlining television.William Gibson
There are more things, Lucilius, that frighten us than injure us, and we suffer more in imagination than in reality. - Epistulae ad Lucilium.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.Toni Cade Bambera
Doubt of the reality of love ends by making us doubt everything.Henri Frdric Amiel
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
The reality of the other person lies not in what he reveals to you but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather to what he does not say.Kahlil Gibran
To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past Therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future....Ursala Lequin
Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
Art is a deliberate recreation of a new and special reality that grows from your response to life. It cannot be copied; it must be created.Anonymous
Language is a living, kicking, growing, flitting, evolving reality, and the teacher should spontaneously reflect its vibrant and protean qualities.John A. Rassias
The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.Ashely Montagu
Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.Anon.
Words, as is well known, are great foes of reality.Joseph Conrad
The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be; all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them.Socrates
Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it.Jane Wagner, (and Lily Tomlin)
People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.Robert J. Ringe
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)
We have art so that we shall not die of reality.Nietzsche
Be as radical as reality.Lenin
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.Pablo Picasso
