What Is Reality Quotes

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.

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

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

Sometimes, less is more.

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.

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

Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.

To really be a nerd, she'd decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.

What is it that makes a person insist passionately on the existence of metaphysical realities that can be neither demonstrated nor refuted? (176)

Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then.

Even if you fulfill your hearts desire, by sacrificing something important, you may not necessarily be happy. Happiness doesn’t come in one form, it determined by your own heart.

On the other hand, in a society whose communication component is becoming more prominent day by day, both as a reality and as an issue, it is clear that language assumes a new importance.

Weak people believe what is forced on them. Strong people what they wish to believe, forcing that to be real.

Look at him now, poor fellow. That's what a dose of reality does for you...Never touch the stuff myself, you understand. Find it gets in the way of the hallucinations.

Although every man believes that his decisions and resolutions involve the most multifarious factors, in reality they are mere oscillation between flight and longing.

Wonder opens and unravels reality.

You can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream.

We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.

Reality is what one does not perceive when one perceives it.

There are other relations besides reality, which the mind is capable of grasping and which also are primary, like chance, illusion, the fantastic, the dream.

We probably in hell already, our dumb asses not knowing.

Altruism itself depends on a recognition of the reality of other persons, and on the equivalent capacity to regard oneself as merely one individual among many.

The man is the first weapon of battle. Let us study the soldier, for it is he who brings reality to it.

‎"Matter flows from place to place, and momentarily comes together to be you. Some people find that thought disturbing; I find the reality thrilling.

A fairytale is when you marry a frog and it turns out to be a princess. Reality is vice versa.

Reality is broken and we need to make it work more like a game.

The park achieved a kind of reality. Like these virtual reality games the children are playing with. I told them we were doing this 40 years ago! Disneyland is virtual reality.

It is by thoughtful reflection that the elusive moments of the past draw near to us in present reality and gain a measure of permanence.

All the masters tell us that the reality of life - which our noisy walking consciousness prevents us from hearing - speaks to us chiefly in silence.

Learn to be one with who you are in Reality, and the waves of a thousand passing worlds cannot wash you away.

Einstein, in the special theory of relativity, proved that different observers, in different states of motion, see different realities.

In reality, people are people. Age does a weird thing to your body on the outside. It makes your face fall and weird things happen all over. But inside, you're the same person you always were.

Our beliefs are creating our reality.

To forsake Christ for the world, is to leave a treasure for a trifle, eternity for a moment, reality for a shadow

The word 'Christianity' is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.

A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.

All I can say about the work I try to do, is that the aesthetic is in reality itself.

Reality is always extraordinary.

Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.

Miracle is a misunderstood reality.

These soliloquies explain our people's lack of stability You keepin it real, but ain't got a clue what reality really be See the diameter of your knowledge Is the circumference of your activity

Life itself is not the reality. We are the ones who put life into stones and pebbles.

Our view of reality is like a chart of the sea - the truer it is, the less likely we will become lost.

On the one hand, the reality is dire, on the other, reality is always false, it is a mask covering what is coming up underneath.

Personal mastery is the discipline of continually clarifying and deepening our personal vision, of focusing our energies, of developing patience, and of seeing reality objectively.

As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality.

The reality is that I need to be challenged and interested, as long as the risk and reward is in line.

Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing.

I have no words for my reality.

We need a new concept of reality and a new set of values for things to change in a positive direction. LSD could help to generate such a new concept.