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Reality Quotes
"Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand, leaves them at an imaginary level."
126
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."
109
"Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception."
103
"There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality."
94
"I knew there was something special about the theater for me something beyond the regular reality, something that I could get into and transcend and become something other than myself."
91
"I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it."
89
"Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be."
85
"The reality is that international institutions like the UN can only be as effective as its members allow it to be."
51
"In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality."
50
"Reality is whatever refuses to go away when I stop believing in it."
50
"I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself."
49
"Closing your eyes isn't going to change anything. Nothing's going to disappear just because you can't see what's going on. In fact, things will even be worse the next time you open your eyes."
49
"No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality."
46
"Reality is in the ether, a blend of present-day experiences infused with one's memories and dreams. A life that is real to one is surreal to another."
46
"Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans. . . If reality differs from person to person, can we speak of reality singular, or shouldn't we really be talking about plural realities? And if there are plural realities, are some more true (more real) than others? What about the world of a schizophrenic? Maybe it's as real as our world. Maybe we cannot say that we are in touch with reality and he is not, but should instead say, His reality is so different from ours that he can't explain his to us, and we can't explain ours to him. The problem, then, is that if subjective worlds are experienced too differently, there occurs a breakdown in communication ... and there is the real illness."
45
"What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality."
44
"War is massacre. It is 100 per cent negative."
43
"In reality, the most important things happen when you don't look for them."
41
"If you are thinking of making everyone happy, you are going to be a great prostitute."
41
"The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate."
41
"Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised."
41
"Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into."
41
"I actually think I'm more of a turtle than Verne is. Where Verne is up on two legs and moving at full speed and doesn't pull his head into the shell very often, I in reality was five or ten minutes later to every recording session."
40
"The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary."
40
"These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are; at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile."
40
"I do not support raising the minimum wage, and the reason is as follows. When the minimum wage is raised, workers are priced out of the market. That is the economic reality that seems, at least so far, to be missing from this discussion."
40
"In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality."
39
"This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful."
38
"There are billions of people in the world, and each one of them has their own view of reality."
38
"But like so many unfortunate events in life, just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so."
38
"If you're rude for television's sake, it ain't reality TV."
37
"For some, life may be a playground to undermine the brainwaves of others or simply a vainglorious game with an armory of theatrics, illustrating only bleak self-deception, haughty narcissism and dim deficiency in empathy. ['Another empty room']"
36
"What we think affects our life so much that life is for each of us just what we think it is. So the question of what life means has individual answers for each of us."
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