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Quotes About Actuality

Life is a reality without a rubber.
~ Unknown
Reality has a quality of freedom about it that is hard to explain.
~ Michelangelo Antonioni
Real life was not what everyone thought it was.
~ Martina Cole
I've figured out there's a difference between the meaning of the word 'real' and the meaning of the word 'true.
~ Martine Leavitt
They don't think it be like it is, but it do.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
It is not true that everything is actual; there is an actuality of the possible as possible, that is, the notion of an outline, the being of becoming actual that is certain possibilities.
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty
there is no such thing as fantasy unrelated to reality
~ Maurice Sendak
The true statement 'Is is is' is a fact of reality.
~ Unknown
An ideal society, properly so-called, can be none other than an actual, present, society taken at its truest and best.
~ Michael Oakeshott
Although average Americans have plenty of free time, and ample access to leisure activities, they do not, as a result, experience flow often. Potentiality does not imply actuality, and quantity does not translate into quality.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Theology is necessary because truth and experience are related. While some would deny or at least question this connection, in the long run the truth will affect our experience. A person who falls from the tenth story of a building may shout while passing each window on the way down, "I'm still doing fine," and may mean it sincerely, but eventually the facts of the matter will catch up with the person's experience.
~ Unknown
Everything that is perfect is also real, and things that are not perfect are still imaginary, until we reach the state of absolute reality.
~ Unknown
The truth is that, reality matter more than imaginary things—Your perceptions and concepts of the world doesn't contribute anything to anyone.
~ Unknown
We often confuse what we wish for with what is.
~ Neil Gaiman
Cybergothic is [...] guided by schizoanalysis in marking actuality as primary repression or collapsed potential
~ Unknown
practically
~ Nick Webb
The negatives he did manage were made in the hour or two when the sun seemed to rally with a yellowy light reminiscent of an egg yolk; usually, it looked pale as a pearl on the steely blue or leaden sky above the snow-scrubbed lake. That's a purple passage fit for a novel but hardly descriptive of the actuality of that winter, which was almost past enduring.
~ Norman Lock
Truth is exact correspondence with reality.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Because who can say in the end that any one of these places is more real than any other?
~ Patrick Ness
Good and evil, however, are views taken from a certain given standpoint, and from this standpoint good and evil are features forming a contrast, but as such they are always actualities; neither the one nor the other
~ Paul Carus
I would read accounts of so-called battles I had been in, and they had no relation whatever to what had happened. So I began to perceive that anything written was fiction to various degrees. The whole subject-- the difference between actuality and representation--was an interesting one. And that's what brought me to literature in the first place.
~ Paul Fussell
The world is what it is.
~ Unknown
Reality' is a word with many meanings.
~ Peter Brook
Reality confounds image.
~ Unknown