Quotes and Sayings About Reality
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It would indeed be a great delusion, if we stated that those sports of Nature [we find] enclosed in rocks are there by chance or by some vague creative power. Ah, that would be superficial indeed! In reality, those shells, which once were alive in water and are now dead and decomposed, were made thus by time not Nature; and what we now find as very hard, figured stone, was once soft mud and which received the impression of the shape of a shell, as I have frequently demonstrated.
-- Agostino Scilla -
Can art be completely invented? It's a matter of shaping reality with the help of imagination.
-- Aharon Appelfeld -
We have a problem with several media taking only a part of the reality and not the whole picture. Some media in the world are more critical towards what's happening than others. It depends on the journalist, it depends how much information they have about the case and which perspective they are asking you from. All of these things can play a role.
-- Ahmed Akkari -
The practice of photography is no longer a means for recording reality. Instead, it has become reality itself
-- Ai Weiwei -
The dreams we are chasing and the reality that is chasing us are always parallel; they never meet.
-- Ai Yazawa -
The more my dream are fulfilled the quicklier they become realities losing their shine.
-- Ai Yazawa -
Life will take its toll on all of us. We get injured, we get old. It's really sad to try to run away from these harsh realities of life. Looks are not everything. I am not going to look beautiful all the time.
-- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan -
Suttas are not meant to be 'sacred scriptures' that tell us what to believe. One should read them, listen to them, think about them, contemplate them, and investigate the present reality, the present experience with them. Then, and only then, can one insightfully know the truth beyond words.
-- Ajahn Sumedho -
In order to find reality, each must search for his own universe, look for the details that contribute to this reality7 that one feels under the surface of things. To be an artist means to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means never to look away.
-- Akira Kurosawa -
To be an artist means to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means to never look away.
-- Akira Kurosawa -
Too much FANTASY loses REALITY, too much HOPE may seem somehow EMPTY.
-- Akira Toriyama -
In reality there is no cause or effect, there is only the indifference of the universe.
-- Al Goldstein -
When you have the facts on your side, argue the facts. When you have the law on your side, argue the law. When you have neither, holler.
-- Al Gore -
In the United States of America, unfortunately we still live in a bubble of unreality.
-- Al 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.
-- Al Gore -
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.
-- Al Gore -
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.
-- Al Jourgensen -
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 -
Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.
-- Al Yankovic -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.
-- Alan Dean Foster -
My novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else's books.
-- Alan Furst -
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 -
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
