Reality Quotes

Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it.

Jane Wagner, (and Lily Tomlin)

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

Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.

Cicero

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.

Jules de Gautie

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

Sren Aaby Kierkegaard

The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.

Ashely Montagu

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.

Petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of reality.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden

A plan is just a tangent vector on the manifold of reality.

"Scratch" Garrison

Be as radical as reality.

Lenin

Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than minority of them - Never become conscious of them all. How much of total reality can such an apparatus let through?

C. S. Lewis

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

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

Alan Watts

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

Paranoia is a finer scale of reality.

Michael W. Moore

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

Toni Cade Bambera

Virtual Reality is like mainlining television.

William Gibson

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.

Social engaged intellectuals must accept reality as they found it and shape it toward positive social goals, not stand aside in self - Righteous isolation.

John Dewey

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

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

We must learn to tailor our concepts to fit reality, instead of trying to stuff reality into our concepts.

Victor Daniels

Human kind cannot bear much reality.

T. S. Eliot

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

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

Attitude is more important than reality.

Elaine Agathe

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

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

Reality is something you rise above.

Liza Minnelli

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

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

Robert J. Ringe

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

Napoleon Hill

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

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

The stupendous fact that we stand in the midst of reality will always be something far more wonderful than anything we do.

Erich Gutkind

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

Barbara Garrison