Quotes about reality
reality sometimes delusion
Sometimes a happy delusion is better than grim reality. James Patterson
reality giving mind
Your mind creates your reality. If you expect nothing, you open up the universe to give you options. If you expect the worst, you usually get it.
reality bridges tinkering
Let us face reality. The framers (of the Constitution) have simply been too shrewd for us. They have outwitted us. They designed separate institutions that cannot be unified by mechanical linkages frail bridges(or) tinkering. If we are to turn the founders upside down we must directly confront the Constitutional structure they erected. James MacGregor Burns
reality kind fantasy
A fantasy film is often improved by some kind of human reality. James Mangold
reality feelings mind
Trust arises from the mind's instinctive feeling after fixed realities, after the substance of every shadow, the base of all appearance, the everlasting amid change. James Martineau
reality order perspective
When we pray, we are speaking to the One Whose eternal purpose and designs are unfolding as our present realities. In order to find hope in them, we must seek HIM and HIS perspective. This requires a keen understanding of the redemptive nature of our existence, which points to the glorious gospel of Christ. James Macdonald
reality liberty done
Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done. James Madison
reality cities forget
Perhaps someday you can have one city as easy to see as Illusions and as hard to forget as Reality. Norton Juster
reality silence despair
After having struggled madly to solve all problems, after having suffered on the heights of despair, in the supreme hour of revelation, you will find that the only answer, the only reality, is silence. Emile M. Cioran
reality excess creation
Reality is a creation of our excesses.
reality way failing
What can be said, lacks reality. Only what fails to make its way into words exists and counts.
reality agreement appearance
Conventionality is the tacit agreement to set appearances before reality, form before content ... Ellen Key
reality ideas flying
To seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality. Ellen Glasgow
reality illumination mind
... the life of the mind is reality, and love without romantic illumination is a spiritless matter.
reality imagination fiction
Knowledge, like experience, is valid in fiction only after it has dissolved and filtered down through the imagination into reality.
reality age youth
Pessimism is the affectation of youth, the reality of age.
reality ideas flying
No idea is so antiquitated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day be antiquitated . . . to seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.
reality habit pleasant
Nothing is in reality either pleasant or unpleasant by nature but all things become so through habit Epictetus
reality doe realism
A thing either is what it appears to be; or it is not, but yet appears to be; or it is, but does not appear to be; or it is not, and does not appear to be.
reality knowing joy
Oh, I wonder if I will ever feel the burst of birth-joy, that knowing that the indescribable, joyous thing that has wooed and wond me has passed through my life and produced one atom of the great reality. Emily Carr
reality law-of-attraction concrete
Every thought, good or bad, becomes concrete; it materializes and becomes a reality.
reality practice criticism
Sociological method as we practice it rests wholly on the basic principle that social facts must be studied as things, that is, as realities external to the individual. There is no principle for which we have received more criticism; but none is more fundamental. Indubitably for sociology to be possible, it must above all have an object all its own. It must take cognizance of a reality which is not in the domain of other sciences... there can be no sociology unless societies exist, and that societies cannot exist if there are only individuals. Emile Durkheim
reality thinking association
Society is not a mere sum of individuals. Rather, the system formed by their association represents a specific reality which has its own characteristics... The group thinks, feels, and acts quite differently from the way in which its members would were they isolated. If, then, we begin with the individual, we shall be able to understand nothing of what takes place in the group.
reality perception firsts
Sometimes something will be happening in pop culture and a movie will be right there, so you'll have this perception that maybe the movie got there first. But in reality, culture gets there first. Ellen Page
reality revolution fusion
Restricting too personal, and therefore prejudiced, interpretation leads to revolution - the fusion of an inner and outer reality derived from the wholeness of life - sublimating things seen into things known. Edward Weston
reality kitsch doe
Kitsch generates pseudonovelty with no new insight into reality, or else does not concern itself at all with the new and produces its effects with more or less academic eclecticism. Hermann Broch
reality long mathematics
You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality. Hermann Weyl
reality wish gaps
Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality. Herman Wouk
reality unreal unreal-world
There is no reality except the one contained within us. Hermann Hesse
reality literature behinds
Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.
reality people world
The only reality is the one we have inside us. What makes most people’s lives so artificial and unworthy is that they falsely regard outside images as reality and they never allow their own inner world to speak.
reality siddhartha
Nothing was, nothing will be, everything has reality and presence
reality long
Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.