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Reality Quotes by Aldous Huxley
- In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is very high; in reality, very low.
- Our business is to wake up. We have to find ways in which to detect the whole of reality in the one illusory part which…
- Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that…
- People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.
- The soul of wit may become the very body of untruth. However elegant and memorable, brevity can never, in the nature of things, do justice…
- ...reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays....
- To be enlightened is to be aware, always, of total reality in its immanent otherness - to be aware of it and yet remain in…
- That’s what the human brain is there for—to turn the chaos of given experience into a set of manageable symbols. Sometimes the symbols correspond fairly…
- The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
- Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born - the beneficiary inasmuch as…
- Ultimate Reality is not clearly and immediately apprehended except by those who have made themselves loving, pure in heart and poor in spirit.
More Reality Quotes
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt
- The structure of apartheid is still rooted in the Haitian society. When you have apartheid, you don't see those behind the walls.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- One of my favorite things about 'Star Trek' wasn't just the overt banter but the humor in that show about the relationships… — J. J. Abrams
- If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life. — Karen Armstrong
- Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain… — Karen Armstrong
- What we play is life. — Louis Armstrong
- Geologists have a saying - rocks remember. — Neil Armstrong
- Journalism is literature in a hurry. — Matthew Arnold
- Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time. — Arthur Ashe
- And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that… — Isaac Asimov