Quotes About Actuality

My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.

No sentimentality, no romance, no false hope, no self-petting lies, merely that which is!

We live in a material world, not a dramatic one. And truth resides not in melodrama, but in the precise measure of material things.

Life is an infinite number of dreams and a single reality. You can dream as much as you wish but can only face one reality.

Belief breeds reality.

At the most embryonic state, the tendency toward the fullness of actualization is already latent.

What we needed were not words and promises but a steady accumulation of small realities.

Only by resolving can a human being step into actuality, however bitter this may be to him. Inertia lacks the will to abandon the inward brooding which allows it to retain everything as as a possibility. But possibility is not yet actuality.

We live in a real world. Come back to it.

The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

A lot of what we're doing here deals with perception rather than truth. Many would argue that reality depends more on the former than the latter.

Truth is in things, and not in words.

Irony limits, finitizes, and circumscribes and thereby yields truth, actuality, content; it disciplines and punishes and thereby yields balance and consistency.

Satisfied is no test of truth. Actuality is steadily far from idiosyncratic secure.

Emotion did not play a part in truth, only reality did.

But they're not real now," Wu said. "That's what I'm trying to tell you. There isn't any reality here.

I have a great love of the actual.

Das Mögliche ist beinahe unendlich, das Wirkliche streng begrenzt, weil doch nur eine von allen Möglichkeiten zur Wirklichkeit werden kann. Das Wirkliche ist nur ein Sonderfall des Möglichen und deshalb auch anders denkbar.

Be it life or death, we crave only reality.

The world as it stands is no illusion.

Truth is in things, and not in words.

The truth is everything.

See fantasy is what people want, but reality is what they need. And I just retired from the fantasy part.

What is real we cannot change, and it doesn't matter what we believe.