Metaphysical Quote by Ray Brassier

Realism is not a matter of any fidelity to an empirical reality, but of the discursive conventions by which and for which a sense…

— John Fiske

Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason...that is its reason for existing.

— Anonymous

“A theorist can explain any correlation, and its inverse”

— Thomas Gold

Realism falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into account our basic truths and our fundamental…

— Eugene Ionesco

Our reality is influenced by our notions about reality, regardless of the nature of those notions

— Joseph Chilton Pearce

“The mind must be passive and in some sense featureless so as not to distort what comes into it. If it interferes with its…

— Lee Braver

Realism is a corruption of reality.

— Wallace Stevens

Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.

— Federico Fellini

Realism is punishing. Probabilistic skepticism is worse.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

One will meet, for example, the virtual assumption that what is relative to thought cannot be real. But why not, exactly? Red is relative…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

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

— Jean Cocteau

Realism is death to me. I cannot stand life as it is.

— Zane Grey