Reality Quotes

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

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

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

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

Joseph Conrad

What is reality, anyway Just a collective hunch.

Jane Wagne

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 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

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

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

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

Richard Feynman

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality and then there are those who turn one into the other.

Douglas H. Everett

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

A theory must be tempered with reality.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Henri Frdric Amiel

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.

Because systems of mass communication can communicate only officially acceptable levels of reality, no one can know the extent of the secret unconscious life. No one in America can know what will happen. No one is in real control.

Allen Ginsberg

Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.

Jules de Gautie

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

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

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

Dr. Karl Menninge

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

Hope is not a dream but a way of making dreams become reality.

L. J. Suenens

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

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.

I reject your reality and substitute my own!

Adam Savage, Mythbusters TV show

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

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

Garrison Keillo

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.

The best Web sites are better than reality.

Jakob Nielsen, Usability consultant

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

"Scratch" Garrison

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

Soren Kierkegaard

Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.

Anon.

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

The ultimate security is your understanding of reality.

H. Stanley Judd

Human beings cannot stand too much reality.

Thomas S. Eliot, Four Quartets

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Good writers define reality bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.

Edward Albee