Reality Quotes

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Reality is that which refuses to go away when I stop believing in it.

Phillip K. Dick

More than ever, the creation of the ridiculous is almost impossible because of the competition it receives from reality.

Robert A. Bake

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

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

We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.

Anais Nin

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

Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible.

Dr. Karl Menninge

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

Jane Wagner, (and Lily Tomlin)

The best Web sites are better than reality.

Jakob Nielsen, Usability consultant

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.

Lily Tomlin

Doubt of the reality of love ends by making us doubt everything.

Henri Frdric Amiel

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

The mystery of life isn? t a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.

Frank Herbert, Dune (Reverend Mother Mohiam)

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

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

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

Some forms of reality are so horrible we refuse to face them, unless we are trapped into it by comedy. To label any subject unsuitable for comedy is to admit defeat.

Peter Sellers

Heaven is not the wide blue sky but the place where corporeality is begotten in the house of the Creative.

Lu Yen

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

Henry David Thoreau, Walden

A theory must be tempered with reality.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.

Anon.

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

Henry Mille

Attitude is more important than reality.

Elaine Agathe

In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law... That would lead to anarchy. An individual who breaks a law that his 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 law.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

Alan Watts

Hope is the denial of reality.

Margaret Weis

Words, as is well known, are great foes of reality.

Joseph Conrad

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

Garrison Keillo

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

William F. Buckley Jr.

Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.

Philip K. Dick, Valis

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

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

Ashely Montagu