Quotes About Actuality

but what men imagine they are doing and what they are doing in fact are rarely the same thing.

Man (as he imagines himself to be), in general, is a possibility, not a fact.

An abstract style is always bad. Your sentences should be full of stones, metals, chairs, tables, animals, men, and women.

I answer that, Every being, as being, is good. For all being, as being, has actuality and is in some way perfect; since every act implies some sort of perfection; and perfection implies desirability and goodness, as is clear from A[1]. Hence it follows that every being as such is good.

Nature admits no lie.

To be rather than to seem.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality

Van, ahogy van, a dolog most már valahogy biztos csakugyan van.

But reality soon asserted itself.

Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.

Life is like a reel life but real life is not reel life.

You are to be in all things regulated and governed,' said the gentleman, 'by fact.

Hamlet's mother says to Hamlet, "Why seems it so particular with thee?" What is the difference between belief and make-belief? What makes us give to any one belief (since it is only a matter of shifting, tuning the mind) the peculiar weight of actuality? "For there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

Real life is all about real things!" You can't turn off real life.

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

It must be a movement then, an actuality of the possible as possible.

Until now, I never noticed how much fantasy had to do with reality.

Impressions and appearances that do not correspond to reality must be contrasted with others that do correspond to reality, or else the contrast between appearance and reality is meaningless.

Nothing that actually happens is likely until it exists, and then it's certain. You exist.

That's the truth—what is, what was, what will be—not what could be, what should have been, what never can be.

Whenever you look back and say if you know you're in trouble. There is no such thing as if. The only thing that matters is what really happened.

Truth is the complete unconcealment of reality

Reality is what it is

Reality is only just a word.