quotations about reality
Reality is a formless lure,
And only when we know this
Do we dare to be unreal.
MAXWELL BODENHEIM
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"Dialogue Between a Past and Present Poet"
To make abstractions hold in reality is to destroy reality.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL
Lectures on the Philosophy of History
Thinking something does not make it true. Wanting something does not make it real.
MICHELLE HODKIN
The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
I turned around to face the reality, which was not something caught in the ice of the mind but was something now flushed, feline, lethal, and electric and about to blow a fuse.
ROBERT PENN WARREN
All the King's Men
We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
ANAÏS NIN
The Novel of the Future
I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON
letter to Countee Cullen, 1943
The things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished.
CHARLES DICKENS
David Copperfield
Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
RALPH MARSTON
Daily Motivator
The true nature of the world was weirder than any bizarre fabric that anyone might weave from the warp and weft of imagination's loom.
DEAN KOONTZ
Odd Apocalypse
A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what's real and what's not and most of us have been going along with it ever since.
CHARLES DE LINT
"Where Desert Spirits Crowd the Night", The Ivory and the Horn
Physicists almost never talk about reality. The problem is that what people tend to mean by "reality" has more to do with biology and evolution and with our hardwiring and our neural architecture than it has to do with physics itself. We're prisoners of our own neural architecture. We can visualize some things. We can't visualize other things.... So I say, let's get rid of the word "reality." Let's have our whole discussion without the word "reality." It gets in the way. It conjures up things that are rarely helpful. The word "reproducible" is a more useful word than "real."
LEONARD SUSSKIND
Scientific American, July 2011
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
JOHN LENNON
attributed, Melbourne Sunday Herald Sun, January 13, 2003
The taste for obscenity is universal and the appetite for reality rare and hard to cultivate.
JAMES BALDWIN
Another Country