Quotes About Actuality

The simple fact is that what you see on the screen is pretty much real.

No authority is higher than reality.

Reality is that which, when you don't believe in it, doesn't go away.

The truth doesn't have versions, it just is.

That which is cannot be true.

We could imagine all sorts of universes unlike this one, but this is the one that happened.

Why a should a dream be any less real than this table. Or Macbeth be less real than today's newspaper.

CAMPBELL: All poets. Poetry is a metaphorical language. MOYERS: A metaphor suggests potential. CAMPBELL: Yes, but it also suggests the actuality that hides behind the visible aspect. The metaphor is the mask of God through which eternity is to be experienced.

And reality matters because it is the only thing that can satisfy us.

The work of art still has something in common with enchantment: it posits its own, self-enclosed area, which is withdrawn from the context of profane existence, and in which special laws apply. Just as in the ceremony the magician first of all marked out the limits of the area where the sacred powers were to come into play, so every work of art describes its own circumference which closes it off from actuality.

the thing I came for: [...] the thing itself and not the myth

Perception's not reality.

We need to concentrate on reality, not what could have been.

Fact is based upon vulgar matter.

Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame.

It will always be the same possibilities, in sum or on the average, that go on repeating themselves until a man comes along who does not value the actuality above idea. It is he who first gives the new possibilities their meaning, their direction, and he awakens them.

When they are real, they are not glass threads or frostwork, but the solidest thing we know.

Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.

in the presence of extraordinary actuality, consciousness takes the place of imagination.

Reality is in the business of killing off fiction.

There is wanting the unobtainable, and there is the obtaining of desire, and the greatest of these is the wanting, especially since the object of desire usually exists only in some alternate reality, to be mocked by actuality.

I am all that there is of the most real.

Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.

The reality is more excellent than the report.