What Is Reality Quotes

Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.

Unlike statements of fact, which require no further work on our part, lies must be continually protected from collisions with reality.

There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule.

You take yourself to be limited, but you are not. Discover this. Stay silent and attentive. Be earnest about it. Just be aware of your being here and now. Reality will find you.

Mathematics is not only real, but it is the only reality.

The fact remains that the materialistic view is a truncated view of reality.

Acceptance says, True, this is my situation at the moment. I'll look unblinkingly at the reality of it. But I'll also open my hands to accept willingly whatever a loving Father sends me.

There is no unique picture of reality.

Major writing is to say that which has been seen, so that it need never be said again; so that which has been seen increases, changes in reality, in being.

No two people have the same reality

Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.

I know, of course, that by using film we can bring in other previously unknown worlds, realities beyond reality.

Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.

I believe in the philosophy of staying hungry. If you have a dream and it becomes a reality, don't stay satisfied too long. Make up a new dream and hunt after that one and turn it into a reality.

The world, indeed, is like a dream and the treasures of the world are an alluring mirage! Like the apparent distances in a picture, things have no reality in themselves, but they are like heat haze.

Great leaders are pragmatists who can deal with difficult realities but still have the optimism and courage to act.

A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books.

The solution to violence in America is the acceptance of reality

The present is the only reality and the only certainty.

The makeup is simply an extension of the personality and colors, clothing, makeup all express something.

Virtuality will destroy reality.

The reality is that international institutions like the UN can only be as effective as its members allow it to be.

Working in theoretical systems can take away the juice. It can also be very beautiful, but when you're trying to satisfy a theoretical principle rather than a sonic reality, then it can become dry.

Better to accept the wretched truth than struggle, twisting to make a wish a reality.

In fact, I would advise against anyone doing reality shows. I won't be doing 'X Factor' just yet.

The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.

Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.

Unconscious means identified totally with thought. You reduce reality to a conceptual reality.

Beauty is the main positive form of the aesthetic assimilation of reality, in which aesthetic ideal finds it direct expression.

I'm not trying to minimize things; I'm trying to bring them back to reality.

In visual futurism, the line between total fantasy and futuristic is a thread of reality.

You see, if you make believe hard enough that something is true, then it is true for you.

Conditioning obstructs our view of reality. We do not see IT in its suchness because of our indoctrination, crooked and twisted.

If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'

Why is it people who want the truth never believe it when they hear it?

Facts - behind them lies the whole fabric of deductive truth.

Once you look past the hype, actors are nothing more than fugitives from reality who specialize in contradiction: we are both children and hardened adults—wide-eyed pupils and jaded working stiffs.

Cultures are virtual realities made of language.

At twilight time the smog makes a rainbow.

He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird.

We see this as a test of their ability to face reality.

Part of the challenge with leadership is that it's very driven by gut instinct in most cases - and even worse, everyone thinks they're really good at it. The reality is that very few people are.

Sometimes, less is more.

Bands today have to learn their craft by putting the hard work in that we did when we were young performers.

I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.

The philosopher is in love with truth, that is, not with the changing world of sensation, which is the object of opinion, but with the unchanging reality which is the object of knowledge.

PROMOTE A REVOLUTIONARY FLOOD AND TIDE IN ART. Promote living art, anti-art, promote NON ART REALITY to be fully grasped by all peoples, not only critics, dilettantes and professionals.

The word realist means nothing to me, because I would subordinate reality to temperament. Give me what is true and I applaud; but give me what is individual and alive and I applaud even more.

Socializing on the internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.

There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep seeking reality though in fact we are reality.