Quotes and Sayings About Reality
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Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
-- Aesop -
To sacrifice the moral to the physical, as is done in these days, is to sacrifice reality for a shadow.
-- African Spir -
There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.
-- Agatha Christie -
People are always fighting reality until it's pushed down their throats.
-- Agnes Denes -
There is no illusion so permanent as that which enables us to look backward with complacency; there is no mental process so deceptive as the comparing of recollections with realities.
-- Agnes Repplier -
Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
-- Agnes Repplier -
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