Reality Quotes:

In the United States of America, unfortunately we still live in a bubble of unreality.

topic: Reality, Your Side, Law, Gore

Like an audience entertained by a magician, we allow ourselves to be deceived by those with a stake in persuading us to ignore reality.

topic: Reality, America, United States, Unreality

There is the natural tendency that all of us are vulnerable to, to deny unpleasant realities and to look for any excuse to push them away and resolve to think about them another day long in the future.

topic: Reality, Stakes, Magician

I've never seen the Osbournes, I've never seen Paris Hilton. I'd rather read than watch reality TV. I'd rather live life than watch somebody else living it.

topic: Reality, Thinking, Long

- Al Jourgensen

topic: Live Life, Reality, Paris

We measure our days out in steps of uncertainty not turning to see how far we've come. And peer down the highway from here to eternity and reach out for love on the run.

- Al Stewart

topic: Running, Reality, Peers, How Far We've Come

Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.

- Al Yankovic

topic: Night, Reality, Dinner

Cursed in earth and subdued by death, man found himself beset by time, and his instincts put to the test. Only then, he realized that with love he could survive, and that for a certain purpose he would toil. For those whom my love can not immune from death, are dedicated these paintings, in the hope they may express in drawing the reality of a resonant mind.

- Ala Bashir

topic: Reality, Men, Drawing

As a painter, I realized that what we see is just manifestation of unseen power. Since then [1958 Coup in Iraq], reality started to take another form in my mind. Hence, I was aware of deception of our senses.

- Ala Bashir

topic: Reality, Iraq, Deception

It will remain remarkable, in whatever way our future concepts may develop, that the very study of the external world led to the scientific conclusion that the content of the consciousness is the ultimate universal reality

- Alain Aspect

source: Harold W. Percival (2002). “Thinking And Destiny”, p.546, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

topic: Reality, World, May

One wants never to give up this crystalline perspective. One wants to keep counterpositioning home with what one knows of alternative realities, as they exist in Tunis or Hyderabad. One wants never to forget that nothing here is normal, that the streets are different in Wisebaden, and Louyang, that this is just one of many possible worlds.

- Alain de Botton

topic: Giving Up, Home, Reality

Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.

- Alan Alda

topic: Dog, Reality, Advice

Life is suffering. We have desires and expectations and egos, and we compare the reality we have, which is miraculous and wondrous, with this reality we desire. That somehow distances us from actually taking part fully with the reality we do have, and that creates suffering. For me, the thing that I love is that it's all about the present moment.

- Alan Ball

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Distance, Reality, Love Is

What I'm above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality. If I had to sum up my work, I suppose that's it really: I'm taking the pith out of reality.

- Alan Bennett

topic: Reality, Substance, Concerned

It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.

- Alan Dean Foster

topic: Reality, Statistics, Belief

My novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else's books.

- Alan Furst

topic: Book, Reality, Want

I don't know where hell is ... another dimension, perhaps, or another plane of reality. As for getting there ... it's a choice between sinning and being tricked by demons It's a plane of evil ... despair ... and magic of the foulest kind.

- Alan Grant

topic: Reality, Evil, Choices

Regulators have not been able to achieve the level of future clarity required to act pre-emptively. The problem is not lack of regulation but unrealistic expectations. What we confront in reality is uncertainty, some of it frighteningly so ...

- Alan Greenspan

topic: Ignorance, Reality, Expectations, Regulators, Unrealistic Expectations

I think the reality is that, that money was probably badly spent.

- Alan Hansen

topic: Reality, Thinking

The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.

- Alan Kay

topic: Reality, Belief, Problem

Rights don't come from human documents. The very idea is only worthy of contempt. Human documents are nothing but pieces of paper, they are nothing but words--until by will, and conscience, and courage, and commitment, human beings turn them into reality.

- Alan Keyes

topic: Commitment, Reality, Ideas, Documents

Ideas, unlike solid structures, do not perish. They remain immortal, immaterial and everywhere, like all Divine things. Ideas are a golden, savage landscape that we wander unaware, without a map. Be careful: in the last analysis, reality may be exactly what we think it is.

- Alan Moore

topic: Reality, Thinking, Ideas

Look at him now, poor fellow. That's what a dose of reality does for you...Never touch the stuff myself, you understand. Find it gets in the way of the hallucinations.

- Alan Moore

topic: Reality, Doe, Looks, Dose Of Reality

The displacement of scripted series by reality programming continues to be a severe obstacle to a working actor's ability to earn a living.

- Alan Rosenberg

topic: Reality, Actors, Obstacles, Displacement

Among some of the youngsters, I think reality TV has installed that culture into them and inspired a few of them into wanting to be 'TV celebrities.

- Alan Sugar

topic: Thinking, Reality, Tvs, Reality Tv

I'm a big proponent of having a mental health component go along with whatever the physical realities are.

- Alan Thicke

topic: Reality, Mental Health, Bigs

This is definitely a reality check for us, we've just got to learn from this and move on.

- Alan W. Black

topic: Moving, Reality, Checks

A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with Reality, and lives in a world of illusion.

Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present, since it is in the present and only in the present that you live. There is no other reality than present reality, so that, even if one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.

topic: Wisdom, Reality, Thinking

The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually â€œgraspâ€ reality.

topic: Motivational, Reality, Missing, Live Futures

Zen is a liberation from time. For if we open our eyes and see clearly, it becomes obvious that there is no other time than this instant, and that the past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.

topic: Reality, Definitions, Purpose

Time is a social institution and not a physical reality. There is no such thing as time in the natural world - the world of stars and waters, clouds, mountains and living organisms. There is such a thing as rhythm - rhythm of tides, rhythm of biological processes... There is rhythm and there is motion. Time is a way of measuring motion.

topic: Eye, Past, Reality

Everybody is fundamentally the ultimate reality...

source: Rory Vaden (2015). “Procrastinate on Purpose: 5 Permissions to Multiply Your Time”, p.25, Penguin

topic: Stars, Reality, Clouds, Social Institutions, Measuring

Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself. Just as the word â€œwaterâ€ is a noise that symbolizes a certain liquid without being it, so too the idea of ego symbolizes the role you play, who you are, but it is not the same as your living organism.

topic: Reality, Ultimate, Ultimate Reality

But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

topic: Reality, Ideas, Play, Organisms

Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.

topic: Reality, Men, Ink, Rorschach

- Albert Bandura

topic: Reality, Our Actions, Action, Vicarious

This has increased with the tremendous technological advances in communications. We have a vast new world of images brought into our sitting rooms electronically. Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience. This has increased with the tremendous technological advances in communications. We have a vast new world of images brought into our sitting-rooms electronically.

- Albert Bandura

topic: Communication, Reality, Sitting, Vicarious

The most loathsome materialism is not the kind people usually think of, but the sort that attempts to let dead ideas pass for living realities, diverting into sterile myths the stubborn and lucid attention we give to what we have within us that must forever die.

A symbol always transcends the one who makes use of it and makes him say in reality more than he is aware of expressing.

topic: Thinking, Reality, Ideas, Kind People, Living Reality

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

topic: Reality, Use, Symbols

In the next few years the struggle will not be between utopia and reality, but between different utopias, each trying to impose itself on reality ... we can no longer hope to save everything, but ... we can at least try to save lives, so that some kind of future, if perhaps not the ideal one, will remain possible.

topic: Reality, Evil, Principles

Most men are like me. They cannot live in a universe where the most bizarre thought can in one second enter into the realm of reality--where, most often, it does enter, like a knife in a heart.

topic: Struggle, Reality, Years, Save A Life

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. 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 every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.

topic: Heart, Reality, Men

One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is the most precious thing we have.

topic: Inspirational, Journey, Reality, Marvelous Things, Journey Of Self Discovery

A person experiences life as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. Our task must be to free ourselves from this self-imposed prison, and through compassion, to find the reality of Oneness.

topic: Science, Reality, Long, Inspirational Science, Science Religion

I think that a particle must have a separate reality independent of the measurements. That is an electron has spin, location and so forth even when it is not being measured. I like to think that the moon is there even if I am not looking at it.

topic: Yoga, Reality, Compassion, Yoga Practice

Everything is Energy and that is all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you can not help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy. This is physics.

topic: Independent, Moon, Reality, Electrons, Particles

There is no place in this new kind of physics both for the field and matter, for the field is the only reality.

topic: Philosophy, Reality, Energy

Pure logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge of the empirical world. All knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in it.

topic: Reality, Matter, Fields

I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on creatures of his own creation. I cannot do this in spite of the fact that mechanistic causality has, to a certain extent, been placed in doubt by modern science. My religiosity consists in a humble admiration of the infinitely superior spirit that reveals itself in the little that we, with our weak and transitory understanding, can comprehend of reality. Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.

topic: Science, Reality, Thinking, Knowledge Experience, Logical Thinking

One cannot help but be in awe when [one] contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality.

topic: Humble, Reality, Understanding, Morality And Religion, Ethics And Morals

Design is about discipline and reality, not about fantasy beyond reality

topic: Reality, Helping, Mystery

- Albert Hadley

topic: Reality, Discipline, Design, Beyond Reality

Through my LSD experience and my new picture of reality, I became aware of the wonder of creation, the magnificence of nature and of the animal and plant kingdom. I became very sensitive to what will happen to all this and all of us.

By observing natural scientific discoveries through a perception deepened by meditation, we can develop a new awareness of reality. This awareness could become the bedrock of a spirituality that is not based on the dogmas of a given religion, but on insights into a higher and deeper meaning. I am referring to the ability to recognize, to read, and to understand the firsthand revelations.

source: "Stanislav Grof interviews Dr. Albert Hofmann Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California". Interview With Stanislav Grof, www.maps.org. 1984.

topic: Animal, Reality, Magnificence

I share the belief of many of my contemporaries that the spiritual crisis pervading all spheres of Western industrial society can be remedied only by a change in our world view. We shall have to shift from the materialistic, dualistic belief that people and their environment are separate, toward a new conciousness of an all-encompassing reality, which embraces the experiencing ego, a reality in which people feel their oneness with animate nature and all of creation.

topic: Reality, Discovery, Meditation, Scientific Discovery, Deeper Meaning

The characteristic property of hallucinogens, to suspend the boundaries between the experiencing self and the outer world in an ecstatic, emotional experience, makes it posible with their help, and after suitable internal and external perparation... to evoke a mystical experience according to plan, so to speak... I see the true importance of LSD in the possibility of providing material aid to meditation aimed at the mystical experience of a deeper, comprehensive reality. Such a use accords entirely with the essence and working character of LSD as a sacred drug.

source: "LSD : My Problem Child" by Albert Hofmann, (Foreword), 1980.

topic: Spiritual, Reality, Our World, Spiritual Crisis

...what one commonly takes as 'the reality,' including the reality of one's own individual person, by no means signifies something fixed, but rather something that is ambiguous-that there is not only one, but that there are many realities, each comprising also a different consciousness of the ego.

source: "LSD: My Problem Child". Book by Albert Hofmann. Chaoter 11: "LSD Experience and Reality", www.psychedelic-library.org. 1980.

topic: Character, Emotional, Reality, Outer Worlds, Mystical Experiences

I call on everyone of goodwill both in Ireland and abroad to join now in ensuring that the beginning of peace becomes a reality, before this year is out. Let us together open a new era in our history.

source: "LSD: My Problem Child". Book by Albert Hofmann. Chaoter 11: "LSD Experience and Reality", www.psychedelic-library.org. 1980.

topic: Mean, Reality, Ego

- Albert Reynolds

topic: Reality, Years, Together, Goodwill, New Era

Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from the world of unrest to a world of peace, and see reality in a new way, as if we were sitting by a mountain lake and contemplating hills and woods and clouds in the tranquil and fathomless water.

- Albert Schweitzer

topic: Music, Laughter, Reality, Lamentation, Mountain Lakes

The great fault of all ethics hitherto has been that they believed themselves to have to deal only with the relations of man to man. In reality, however, the question is what is his attitude to the world and all life that comes within his reach.

- Albert Schweitzer

topic: Attitude, Reality, Men

There is an eternal dispute between those who imagine the world to suit their policy, and those who correct their policy to suit the realities of the world.

- Albert Sorel

source: "Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations". Edited by Suzy Platt, 1989.

topic: Reality, World, Suits

I try to transform a dream's magic into reality.

- Alberta Ferretti

topic: Dream, Reality, Magic

The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.

- Alberto Giacometti

source: Herbert C. Lust, Alberto Giacometti, Aprile Gallant, Portland Museum of Art (2000). “Alberto Giacometti”

topic: Art, Reality, Intensity, Inspiring Art, Inspiring Artist

I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself.

- Alberto Giacometti

topic: Reality, Paint, Protect

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

- Alberto Giacometti

topic: Reality, Copying, Chairs

Reality deals in specifics under the guise of generalities. Literature does the contrary...

- Alberto Manguel

topic: Reality, Doe, Literature, Specifics

The nature of the cosmos is such that whatever vision you have about yourself and the world will become reality. As soon as you awaken to the power you have, you begin to flex the muscles of your courage.

- Alberto Villoldo

topic: Reality, Vision, Cosmos, Limiting Beliefs

If your faith in reality is based on the belief that time moves in one direction only, the foundation of your faith will be shattered by the experience of the future.

- Alberto Villoldo

topic: Moving, Reality, One Direction

...reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays....

Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born - the beneficiary inasmuch as language gives access to the accumulated records of other people's experience, the victim in so far as it confirms him in the belief that reduced awareness is the only awareness and as it bedevils his sense of reality, so that he is all too apt to take his concepts for data, his words for actual things.

topic: Holiday, Reality, People, Brave New World Happiness

Life's so ordinary that literature has to deal with the exceptional. Exceptional talent, power, social position, wealth.... Dramabegins where there's freedom of choice. And freedom of choice begins when social or psychological conditions are exceptional. That's why the inhabitants of imaginative literature have always been recruited from the pages of Who's Who.

topic: Humility, Reality, Data, Beneficiaries, Doors Of Perception

Perhaps dirt is the necessary condition of beauty.... Perhaps hygiene and art can never be bedfellows. No Verdi, after all, without spitting into trumpets. No Duse without a crowd of malodorous bourgeois giving one another their coryzas. And think of the inexpugnable retreats for microbes prepared by Michelangelo in the curls of Moses' beard!

topic: Art, Reality, Choices

From the internal reality, by which I means the totality of psychological experiences, it [science] actually separates us. Art, for example, deals with many more aspects of this internal reality than does science, which confines itself deliberately and by convention to the study of one very limited class of experiences the experiences of sense.

topic: Art, Thinking, Reality, Verdi, Bedfellows

Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.

topic: Art, Mean, Reality

Most loverspicture to themselves, in their mistresses, a secret reality, beyond and different from what they see every day. They are in love with somebody else--their own invention. And sometimes there is a secret reality; and sometimes reality and appearance are the same. The discovery, in either case, is likely to cause a shock.

topic: Ignorance, Reality, Ignored

Our conviction that the world is meaningless is due in part to the fact (discussed in a later paragraph) that the philosophy of meaningless lends itself very effectively to furthering the ends of political and erotic passion; in part to a genuine intellectual error - the error of identifying the world of science, a world from which all meaning has deliberately been excluded, with ultimate reality.

topic: Love, Reality, Discovery

To be enlightened is to be aware, always, of total reality in its immanent otherness - to be aware of it and yet remain in a condition to survive as an animal. Our goal is to discover that we have always been where we ought to be. Unhappily we make the task exceedingly difficult for ourselves.

topic: Philosophy, Passion, Reality

The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.

topic: Animal, Reality, Goal, Otherness