Nature of man Quote by Benjamin R. Smith

“Once we recognize the fact that every individual is a treasury of hidden and unsuspected qualities, our lives become richer, our judgment better, and…

— Charles H. Percy

“What about reality, you ask? Well, as far as I'm concerned, reality can go take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut.”

— Stephen King

In earlier times artists liked to show what was actually visible... nowadays we are concerned with reality, rather than the merely visible.

— Paul Klee

“I have not quite come to terms with the brevity that people crave as they dash through life, flitting from one thing to another.…

— Mala Naidoo

“A world emerging, daily, out of nothing, a world that we trust to resemble what we've seen previously. We should know better.”

— Gregory Maguire

“What you see is not what wee se. What you see is distracted by memory, by being who you are, all this time, for…

— Don DeLillo

What is reality? Is it not merely a term for the philosopher to conjure with, behind which he may craftily conceal his ignorance?

— John Grier Hibben

To a large degree, we are still bound to the modern scientific spirit, that characterizes reality merely by its material and mechanic aspects, without…

— Leonardo Boff

Reality is merely an illusion, although a very persistent one

— Albert Einstein

The greatest wisdom is to make the enjoyment of the present the supreme object of life; because that is the only reality, all else…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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

— Albert Einstein

So, as one sees, I by no means deprive my world of stubborn reality, if I merely call it a world of ideas.

— Josiah Royce