Reality Quotes

I'm very anti-antidepressants. It's not the chemicals of my brain that's a problem; it's reality. I don't think tricking my brain into reinterpreting reality is going to help.

The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.

You don't know reality until someone makes a fiction of it. Reality needs the completion of fiction.

Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe, the less taste we shall have for destruction.

Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous. Among people of every race, color, and creed, all around the world, socialism has led to hunger in countries that used to have surplus food to export.... Nevertheless, for many of those who deal primarily in ideas, socialism remains an attractive idea -- in fact, seductive. Its every failure is explained away as due to the inadequacies of particular leaders.

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

Dreams fulfilled are imperfect.

In youth one believes in democracy, later on, one has to accept it.

The telling of stories creates the real world.

Boasting of glory does not make glory.

Optimism is cowardice.

You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.

The "paradox" is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality "ought to be."

It's not about a salary, it's all about reality.

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

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

Perception is reality.

Absolute power, as we have always known, corrupts absolutely; it corrupts because it does not do the trick for the individual. Reality always creeps in--the reality of our helplessness and our mortality; the reality that, despite our reach for the stars, a creaturely fate awaits us.

I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

Saying is one thing and doing is another.

If a tree falls in the forest, and no one is there to hear it, it makes no sound.

I have visualised my imagination so clearly and so consistently that it has manifested itself into my reality.