Reality Quotes
An artist does not fake reality - - He *stylizes* it.Ayn Rand, From the article "Art and Sense of Life" in The Romantic Manifesto
An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.Samuel Smiles
Paranoia is a finer scale of reality.Michael W. Moore
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
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.Pablo Picasso
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
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
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
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.Robert H. Goddard
Imagination is the reality of the dreamer.Scott Ringenbach
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
Heaven is not the wide blue sky but the place where corporeality is begotten in the house of the Creative.Lu Yen
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
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
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
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
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.Sren Aaby Kierkegaard
Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.Theodor Reik
Reality is but a poor excuse for not having an imagination.Melissa Maye
Everything is a dangerous drug except reality, which is unendurable.Cyril Connolly, "The Unquiet Grave", 1945
I reject your reality and substitute my own!Adam Savage, Mythbusters TV show
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
Must be out - Of - Doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life.Henry David Thoreau
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
Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.Alexis Carrel
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.
Words, as is well known, are great foes of reality.Joseph Conrad
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 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
I describe in a realistic form a nonrealistic reality.Fernando Botero, Columbian painter and sculpto
Human kind cannot bear much reality.T. S. Eliot
Virtual Reality is like mainlining television.William Gibson
Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality the cost becomes prohibitive.William F. Buckley Jr.
Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.Warren Bennis
Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea.Lou Dorfsman
The best Web sites are better than reality.Jakob Nielsen, Usability consultant
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
