Reality Quotes

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Albert Camus

Albert Einstein

William Ralph Inge

Malcolm X

Chinua Achebe

Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum

Edward Albee

It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

William Ralph Inge

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day. Never lose a holy curiosity. … Don't stop to marvel.

Albert Einstein

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

There was a time when meanings were focused and reality could be fixed; when that sort of belief disappeared, things became uncertain and open to interpretation.

Art is magic. So say the surrealists. But how is it magic? In its metaphysical development? Or does some final transformation culminate in a magic reality? In truth, the latter is impossible without the former. If creation is not magic, the outcome cannot be magic. To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction. Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.

There is a reality — so subtle that it becomes more real than reality. That's what I'm trying to get down in photography.

Alfred Stieglitz

The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized.

We should treat computers as fancy telephones, whose purpose is to connect people. Information is alienated experience. Information is not something that exists. Indeed, computers don't really exist, exactly; they're only subject to human interpretation. This is a strong primary humanism I am promoting. As long as we remember that we ourselves are the source of our value, our creativity, our sense of reality, then all of our work with computers will be worthwhile and beautiful.

True, the initial ideas are in general those of an individual, but the establishment of the reality and truth is in general the work of more than one person.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

Richard Feynman

Interfere with the reality of my world, and you therefore take the very life and heart out of my will.

What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.

Wallace Stevens

The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.

Age becomes reality when you hear someone refer to 'that attractive young woman standing next to the woman in the green dress,' and you find that you're the one in the green dress.

Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.

It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.

Most of people talk, we do things. They plan, we achieve. They hesitate, we move ahead. We are living proof that when human beings have the courage and commitment to transform a dream into reality, there is nothing that can stop them. Dubai is a living example of that

Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum

Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

Women have the right to say: this is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades.

The problem is one of opposition between subjective and objective points of view. There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality. But often what appears to a more subjective point of view cannot be accounted for in this way. So either the objective conception of the world is incomplete, or the subjective involves illusions that should be rejected.

To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose.

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

My aim is always to get hold of the magic of reality and to transfer this reality in painting – to make the invisible visible through reality... What helps me most in this task is the penetration of space. Height, width and depth are the three phenomena which I must transfer into one plane to form the abstract surface of the picture, and thus to protect myself from the infinity of space. My figures come and go, suggested by fortune or misfortune. I try to fix them divested of their apparent accidental quality.

Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.

Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing.

Charles Sanders Peirce