Reality Quotes
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The thinking of the one, therefore, will be determined by eternal truth, the actions of the other more by the practical reality of the moment. The greatness of the one lies in the absolute abstract soundness of his idea.
Adolf Hitler
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Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.
Brian Eno Roxy Music
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Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
Simone Weil
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There are more than 300,000 families in the Gulf region that lost their homes and are waiting for peace of mind. The hurricane exposed the sad reality of poverty in America. We saw, in all its horrific detail, the vulnerabilities of living in inadequate housing and the heartbreak of losing one's home.
Harry Connick, Jr.
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I understood that life is lived most fully in the imagination - that, ironically, imagination is the key to reality.
Betty Eadie
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For the time it lasted, it was really fun. It was as exciting as we can put it out to be, but after that, it was reality. We lost, and here I am.
Erik Bedard
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On the one hand, I'm a kind of crazy anarchist-sympathizer with a hippie background, so this sounds pretty good to me. Make something for the love of it! But the reality is so much more complicated.
Astra Taylor
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The reality is that in much of industrialized societies, we are completely addicted to comfort. We are a society of addicts.
Julia Butterfly Hill
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We suffer more in imagination than in reality.
Seneca the Younger
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In order to pin down reality as realilty, we need another reality to relativize the first. Yet that other reality requires a third reality to serve as its grounding. An endless chain is created within our consciousness, and it is the maintenance of this chain which produces the sensation that we are actually here, that we ourselves exist.
Haruki Murakami
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What cinema can do is the reordering of this reality from a certain chaos or from a certain order into an aesthetic dimension.
Elia Suleiman
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Compared to dreams, reality can be truly cruel. But it can also come up with beautiful surprises.
Nujood Ali
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Empathic listening is so powerful because it gives you accurate data to work with. Instead of projecting your own autobiography and assuming thoughts, feelings, motives and interpretation, you're dealing with the reality inside another person's head and heart. You're listening to understand. You're focused on receiving the deep communication of another human soul.
Stephen Covey
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Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will...
Cesare Pavese
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But when one believes in the reality of things, making them visible by artificial means is not quite the same as feeling that they are close at hand.
Marcel Proust
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I was always really interested in the reality of things - the two sides to every story - and I always had a darker perspective on things. Even as a kid I would watch the world news for hours just to get a sense of what was going on in the world.
Chelsea Wolfe
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In my work theres always been a duality between sticking to reality and trying to stage things.
Carl De Keyzer
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Love is not a quality of 'God'- is it God's very Essence. It is the ALL-encompassing Reality of the Never-Ending Present. It is the Core of Your Existence.
David Hawkins
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Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you've lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that's good.
Elizabeth Edwards
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Reality had no gears, and you never knew what surprises would come spinning out of its chaos.
Scott Westerfeld
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The solution to violence in America is the acceptance of reality.
Gavin de Becker
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Because of my fear that the daytime world would become real, I had to establish reality in another place.
Anna Kavan
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Bernard Williams has been a distinctive presence on the intellectual scene for more than three decades. . . . His writings do not offer the dubious exhilaration of grand philosophical theory, in which messy reality is tamed and caged, but the thrill of seeing pretension punctured by a kind of high-voltage common sense (backed up by impressive erudition). . . . There is no one in philosophy quite like him.
Colin McGinn
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There's a powerful sense of reality to our concepts, ... These are vehicles we think people would purchase and drive today.
Bob Lutz