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Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.-Albert Einstein

 

Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists.-Helen Schucman

 

I accept reality and dare not question it.-Walt Whitman

 

A theory must be tempered with reality.-Jawaharlal Nehru

 

The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.-Henry Kissinger

 

Realism...has no more to do with reality than anything else.-Hob Broun

 

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.-Jane Wagner

 

Reality is something you rise above.-Liza Minnelli

 

I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, Doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it.-Mary Chase

 

We must learn to tailor our concepts to fit reality, instead of trying to stuff reality into our concepts.-Victor Daniels

 

Realists do not fear the results of their study.-Fyodor Dostoevski

 

Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it.-Jane Wagner

 

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.-Jules de Gaultier

 

Reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.-Lily Tomlin

 

In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.-Peter McWilliams

 

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.-Robert H Goddard

 

The stupendous fact that we stand in the midst of reality will always be something far more wonderful than anything we do.-Erich Gutkind

 

It has sometimes been said that we find nowhere in nature an analogue of the difference between "happens" and "is,"on the one hand, and "ought," on the other hand.-Wolfgang Kohler

 

Everything you can imagine is real.-Pablo Picasso

 

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.-Philip K. Dick

 

Humankind cannot stand very much reality.-T. S. Eliot

 

People see the world not as it is, but as they are.-Al Lee

 

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

 

Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible.-Dr Karl Menninger

 

A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.-Simone Weil

 

My greatest enemy is reality. I have fought it successfully for thirty years.-Margaret Anderson

 

The realist is the man, who having weighed all the visible factors in a given situation and having found that the odds are against him, decides that fighting is useless.-Raoul De Sales

 

Darkness is the absence of light. Absences do not exist. Sin does not exist .-Rajneesh

 

There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.-Sean O'Faolain

 

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.-John Lennon

 

The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.-Abraham Lincoln

 

Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.-Ralph Marston

 

A theory must be tempered with reality.-Nehru

 

It takes only one other person to say it's so- one other point of reality to make something real.-Mal Pancoast

 

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.-Albert Einstein

 

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.-Jules de Gaultier

 

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.-Philip K Dick

 

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.-Richard Feynman

 

Reality is the leading cause of stress for those in touch with it.-Jack Wagner

 

Reality is for people who can't face drugs.-Laurence J. Peter

 

Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems -- but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems incredible.-Salman Rushdie

 

The realist is the man, who having weighed all the visible factors in a given situation and having found that the odds are against him, decides that fighting is useless.Raoul De Sales

 

In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be.-Huston Smith

 

Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.-J. G. Ballard

 

There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.-Natalie Clifford Barney

 

One might speak to great length of the three corners of realitywhat was seen, what was thought to be seen, and what was thought ought to be seen.-Marvel Bell

 

The reality of life is that your perceptions -- right or wrong -- influence everything else you do. When you get a proper perspective of your perceptions, you may be surprised how many other things fall into place.-Roger Birkman

 

How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.-Norman Douglas

 

A cause a day keeps reality away.-Jim Fraser

 

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.-Bruce Lee

 

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.-Susan Sontag

 

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

 

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.-Lily Tomlin

 

Everything is a dangerous drug except reality, which is unendurable.-Cyril Connolly

 

You bluffed me! I don't like it when people bluff me. It makes me question my perception of reality.-Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

 

Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible.-Dr. Karl Menninger

 

I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.-Garrison Keillor

 

Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.-Max Ernst

 

One person's crazyness is another person's reality.-Tim Burton

I was taught by my grandfather that anything that your mind can conceive, you can have. It's a reality.-Lenny Kravitz

 

People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich.-Jose Saramago

 

Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.-Emile Durkheim

 

I have no idea how I'm perceived in America because I don't live the reality of America.-Monica Bellucci

 

The belief that one's own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions.-Paul Watzlawick

 

Radical constructivism, thus, is radical because it breaks with convention and develops a theory of knowledge in which knowledge does not reflect an 'objective' ontological reality.-Paul Watzlawick

 

How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?-Lou Reed

 

I don't believe in dressing up reality. I don't believe in using makeup to make things look smoother.-Lou Reed

 

The Olympic Movement gives the world an ideal which reckons with the reality of life, and includes a possibility to guide this reality toward the great Olympic Idea.-Pierre de Coubertin

 

Of all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realise - than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality.-Lester B. Pearson

 

Unfortunately, the reality was that, for political reasons or whatever, there was a need to enforce antidiscrimination laws, or at least there was a perceived need to do that.-Clarence Thomas

 

Let's say that, in reality, I'm basically very shy when it comes to men.-Donna Summer

 

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.-Tom Clancy

 

Before you can read, you know the difference between a story and reality. And, of course, by the time you're old enough to do any real damage with an Uzi, you've learned that difference.-Penn Jillette

 

One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality.-Penn Jillette

 

Reality doesn't bite, rather our perception of reality bites.-Anthony J. D'Angelo

 

Sure, I suffered a lot. But it's not like the end of the world and it's not who I am. I lead quite a pleasant life and I'm able to divorce a perceived reality from my actual experience of life.-Ben Affleck

 

Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.-Alberto Giacometti

 

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.-William Makepeace Thackeray

 

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.-Chinua Achebe

 

All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.-Walter Bagehot

 

Perception is reality.-Lee Atwater

 

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.-Samuel Smiles

 

I have seen that the American Dream is a reality - and I would love to feel the British Dream is also a reality. To enable that, we have to bring back some common sense and encourage family values, a proper sense of justice and make people believe they have a decent chance to build a business or career for themselves. I see this moment as a fantastic opportunity to restore this, because I believe Britain Has Talent.-Simon Cowell

 

Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.-Sammy Davis, Jr.

 

I know that plans and reality may be two different things, but I think my demands on life are minimal.-Moshe Dayan

 

We get along really well, but TV and film aren't reality. We're best friends, but we do have our fights!-Mary-Kate Olsen

 

We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.-Jesse Owens

 

What is emitted from the divine, though it be only like the reflection from the fire, still has the divine reality in itself, and one might almost ask what were the fire without glow, the sun without light, or the Creator without the creature?-Max Muller

 

That is the returning to God which in reality is never concluded on earth but yet leaves behind in the soul a divine home sickness, which never again ceases.-Max Muller

 

At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs.-Ibrahim Babangida

 

I loved the logistical reality of a guy who wants to take over the world, yet who has a family too.-Mike Myers

 

I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far removed from the headlines of violence, destruction and terrorism.-Cat Stevens

 

We can believe that we know where the world should go. But unless we're in touch with our customers, our model of the world can diverge from reality. There's no substitute for innovation, of course, but innovation is no substitute for being in touch, either.-Steve Ballmer

 

Religion, you know, enters very deep; in reality it is the deepest impression I have in speaking to people, that they are or that they are not of my religion.-Gerard Manley Hopkins

 

Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.-Jonas Salk

 

There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.-Jonas Salk

 

Hugh Everett's work has been described by many people in terms of many worlds, the idea being that every one of the various alternative histories, branching histories, is assigned some sort of reality.-Murray Gell-Mann