Quotes
Quotes about Reality
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
The reality of literature, as opposed to its appearance in written of printed records, is the organization of speech sounds, and this makes literature a temporal art, a twin of music.
A highly sophisticated society will always be tempted to accord language a reality of its own
There is only one kind of knowledge worth having, and that is knowledge of ultimate reality
All through history mind limps after reality
I talk of an ultimate reality. And through the glimmering of it I have given you, a soul may speak to a soul
A different dream, gentlemen, a dream which, again, outstrips the reality
Because you have cast off the troublesome burden of inconvenient belief in eternal and condign punishment you have not thereby changed the divinely ordained reality
It seemed to me that good and evil were probably as indefinable as right and wrong, and that the one reality was the electricity of opposition
What is the past, that inert ill-understood mass of vague events, that it should exert an influence on the sunlit reality of now?
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
The reality of the other person is not in what he reveals to you, but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather what he does not say.
The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality.
There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
Many live in the ivory tower called reality; they never venture on the open sea of thought.
Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.
There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.
Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.
Every gift, though it be small, is in reality great if given with affection.
Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.
Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love.
Art is a deliberate recreation of a new and special reality that grows from your response to life. It cannot be copied; it must be created.
Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.
