Reality Quotes

10773 Reality quotes by 5151 unique authors

Melancholy and remorse forms the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality. — Cyril Connolly
Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality. — Clarence Day
Reverie is the groundwork of creative imagination; it is the privilege of the artist that with him it is not as with other men an… — W. Somerset Maugham
Freedom is a very great reality, but it means above all things, freedom from lies. — D. H. Lawrence
Nature forever puts a premium on reality. What is done for effect is seen to be done for effect; what is done for love is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of imagined life clearer… — Joseph Conrad
It is not uncommon to charge the difference between promise and performance, between profession and reality, upon deep design and studied deceit; but the truth… — Samuel Johnson
If you prefer illusions to realities, it is only because all decent realities have eluded you and left you in the lurch; or else your… — George Santayana
When good friends praise a gifted person he often appears to be delighted with them out of politeness and goodwill, but in reality he feels… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The mass of mankind is divided into two classes, the Sancho Panza's who have a sense for reality, but no ideals, and the Don Quixote's… — George Santayana
In the beginning of his human life man was embryonic in the world of the matrix. There he received capacity and endowment for the reality… — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡
Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Men reform a thing by removing the reality from it, and then do not know what to do with the unreality that is left. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet it is precisely through… — James A. Baldwin
Ideas, unlike solid structures, do not perish. They remain immortal, immaterial and everywhere, like all Divine things. Ideas are a golden, savage landscape that we… — Alan Moore
The materialist assumption that spiritual substances do not exist is as much an act of faith as the religious belief in the reality of angels. — Mortimer Adler
I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which… — Martin Luther
Dream your dreams with open eyes and make them come true. — T.E. Lawrence
If we put our trust in the common sense of common men and 'with malice toward none and charity for all' go forward on the… — Henry A. Wallace
My dream has become a reality now, and it's the best feeling I've ever had. — LeBron James
We need marriage equality in every state in this nation. Otherwise, no state really has marriage equality, and we will not rest until it is… — Andrew Cuomo
If you have inner peace, nobody can force you to be a slave to the outer reality. — Sri Chinmoy
But when you come right down to it, the reason that we did this job is because it was an organic necessity. If you are… — J. Robert Oppenheimer
Impermanence is a principle of harmony. When we don't struggle against it, we are in harmony with reality. — Pema Chodron
Affirmation statements are going beyond the reality of the present into the creation of the future through the words you use in the now. — Louise Hay

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