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A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.

Simone Weil

Reality
2

A theory must be tempered with reality.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Reality
3

Everything is self-evident.

René Descartes

Reality
4

Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.

G. K. Chesterton

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5

Fear not what is not real, never was and never will be. What is real, always was and cannot be destroyed.

Reality
6

Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.

J. G. Ballard

Reality
7

How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.

Norman Douglas

Reality
8

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

T. S. Eliot

Reality
9

I accept reality and dare not question it.

Walt Whitman

Reality
10

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Reality
11

I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.

Oscar Wilde

Reality
12

I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.

Jean Rostand

Reality
13

If someone offers to furnish a sure test, ask what the test was which made the sure test sure.

Reality
14

In the American metaphysic, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant.

Lionel Trilling

Reality
15

It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.

Margaret Fuller

Reality
16

It takes only one other person to say it's so-one other point of reality to make something real.

Mal Pancoast

Reality
17

Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.

Bertolt Brecht

Reality
18

Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.

Hermann Hesse

Reality
19

No authority is higher than reality.

Peter Nivio Zarlenga

Reality
20

Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real.

Deepak Chopra

Reality
21

Our intention creates our reality.

Wayne Dyer

Reality
22

Realism should only be the means of expression of religious genius... or, at the other extreme, the artistic expressions of monkeys which are quite satisfied with mere imitation. In fact, art is never realistic though sometimes it is tempted to be. To be really realistic a description would have to be endless.

Albert Camus

Reality
23

Realism, whether it be socialist or not, falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into account our basic truths and our fundamental obsessions: love, death, astonishment. It presents man in a reduced and estranged perspective. Truth is in our dreams, in the imagination.

Eugène Ionesco

Reality
24

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Reality
25

Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?

George Moore

Reality
26

Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

Graham Greene

Reality
27

Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest --thought, action --is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go.

Cesare Pavese

Reality
28

Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems --but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems incredible.

Salman Rushdie

Reality
29

Reality is for people who can't face drugs.

Laurence J. Peter

Reality
30

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Albert Einstein

Reality
31

Reality is not protected or defended by laws, proclamations, ukases, cannons and armadas. Reality is that which is sprouting all the time out of death and disintegration.

Henry Miller

Reality
32

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.

Lily Tomlin

Reality
33

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

Philip K. Dick

Reality
34

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

John Lennon

Reality
35

Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

Thomas Carlyle

Reality
36

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

Bruce Lee

Reality
37

The genuine artist is never true to life. He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.

Wallace Stevens

Reality
38

The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

Reality
39

The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is.

Ben Stein

Reality
40

The supreme reality of our time is the vulnerability of this planet.

John F. Kennedy

Reality
41

The truly educated man is that rare individual who can separate reality from illusion.

Reality
42

The unreal is natural, so natural that it makes of unreality the most natural of anything natural. That is what America does, and that is what America is.

Gertrude Stein

Reality
43

The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.

Jean Baudrillard

Reality
44

There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.

Plautus

Reality
45

There are. intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Reality
46

This sort of adoration of the real is but a heightening of the beau ideal.

George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron

Reality
47

To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed.

Hubert Humphrey

Reality
48

To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Reality
49

True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.

Jean Cocteau

Reality
50

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

George Eliot

Reality
51

What is a lie? It is to say what is real is not real. It is to deny the existence of what exists.

Peter Nivio Zarlenga

Reality
52

What is meant by reality? It would seem to be something very erratic, very undependable -- now to be found in a dusty road, now in a scrap of newspaper in the street, now a daffodil in the sun. It lights up a group in a room and stamps some casual saying

Virginia Woolf

Reality
53

What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.

Wallace Stevens

Reality
54

Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be -- like the reality of yesterday -- an illusion tomorrow.

Luigi Pirandello

Reality
55

Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false?

Simone Weil

Reality
56

You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reality
57

You too must not count too much on your reality as you feel it today, since like yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.

Luigi Pirandello

Reality

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A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.

A theory must be tempered with reality.

Everything is self-evident.

Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.

Fear not what is not real, never was and never will be. What is real, always was and cannot be destroyed.

Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.

How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

I accept reality and dare not question it.

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.

I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.

If someone offers to furnish a sure test, ask what the test was which made the sure test sure.

In the American metaphysic, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant.

It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.

It takes only one other person to say it's so-one other point of reality to make something real.

Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.

Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.

No authority is higher than reality.

Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real.

Our intention creates our reality.

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?

Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest --thought, action --is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go.

Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems --but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems incredible.

Reality is for people who can't face drugs.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Reality is not protected or defended by laws, proclamations, ukases, cannons and armadas. Reality is that which is sprouting all the time out of death and disintegration.

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

The genuine artist is never true to life. He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.

The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is.

The supreme reality of our time is the vulnerability of this planet.

The truly educated man is that rare individual who can separate reality from illusion.

The unreal is natural, so natural that it makes of unreality the most natural of anything natural. That is what America does, and that is what America is.

The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.

There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.

There are. intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.

This sort of adoration of the real is but a heightening of the beau ideal.

To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed.

To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!

True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

What is a lie? It is to say what is real is not real. It is to deny the existence of what exists.

What is meant by reality? It would seem to be something very erratic, very undependable -- now to be found in a dusty road, now in a scrap of newspaper in the street, now a daffodil in the sun. It lights up a group in a room and stamps some casual saying

What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.

Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be -- like the reality of yesterday -- an illusion tomorrow.

Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false?

You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.

You too must not count too much on your reality as you feel it today, since like yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.