Quotes About Actuality

In an infinite universe, all things are possible -- within physical limits, that is -- and any book that can be written does physically exist. Somewhere. The book is the bridge between the words and the physical actuality.

Kindness sown among the meek is harvested in crisis, in fairy tales and sometimes in actuality.

It was not an outhouse resting upon the imagination. It was reality.

One has to 'leave philosophy aside,' one has to leap out of it and devote oneself like an ordinary man to the study of actuality . . . Philosophy and the study of the actual world have the same relation to one another as masturbation and sexual love.

The main defect of all hitherto-existing materialism — that of Feuerbach included — is that the Object [der Gegenstand], actuality, sensuousness, are conceived only in the form of the object [Objekts], or of contemplation [Anschauung], but not as human sensuous activity, practice [Praxis], not subjectively.

Hegel is not to be blamed for depicting the nature of the modern state as it is, but rather for presenting what is as the essence of the state. The claim that the rational is actual is contradicted precisely by an irrational actuality, which everywhere is the contrary of what it asserts and asserts the contrary of what it is.

What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational

When you confidently defend fiction, think about reality also

But life does not consist of words.Life consists of reality.

Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.

Things seemed to go back and forth between reality and imagination--except that it was all reality.

The tales of Elfland do not stand or fall on their actuality but on their truthfulness, their speaking to the human condition, the longings we all have for the Faerie Other.

In the context of a national dialogue, perhaps the only authorization required for "putting in your little two cents worth" is the constitutional provision for free speech. Moreover, the basis for the presumptions of dissent and counter-statement is the same as for popping off: the merest hint or suspicion that outrage is being committed against one's conception of actuality.

Everything actual must also first have been possible, before having actual existence.

Nothing would be further from the reality.

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.

We often find far more power in a symbol than in something that is an an actuality.

It is not the ought -ness of the problem that we have to consider, but the is -ness!

Comparisons deplete the actuality of the things compared... ("Conveyance: The Story I would Not Want Bill Wilson To Read")

reality isn't the way you wish things to be, nor the way they appear to be, but the way they actually are.

Yet 'Reality' is just whatever illusion we believe in

The majority are satisfied living within the idea of the reality instead of the reality of the idea.

I wondered if a novel could have the power to make something so strange happen in actuality.

Rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality. Unlimited possibility and abstract creativity can procure nothing. The limitation, and the basis arising from what is already actual, are both of them necessary and interconnected.