Quotes About Reality

We want words to do more than they can. We try to do with them what comes to very much like trying to mend a watch with a pickaxe or to paint a miniature with a mop; we expect them to help us to grip and dissect that which in ultimate essence is as ungrippable as shadow. Nevertheless there they are; we have got to live with them, and the wise course is to treat them as we do our neighbours, and make the best and not the worst of them.

No miracle was effected without means of some kind; the difference between the faithful and the unbeliever consisted in the very fact that the former could see a miracle where the latter could not. The

Not only is nothing good or ill but thinking makes it so, but nothing is at all, except in so far as thinking has made it so.

When speculation has done its worst, two and two still make four.

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

Were it not for imagination, sir, a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

The world is seldom what it seems to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

All movies aren't fun some are hard work. You try to do something and convey a set of emotions that have to do with some real life kind of stuff.

I walk the streets, take the train, it's real simple. Some actors create their own mythology: 'Oh, I'm so famous I can't go places, because I created this mythology that I'm so famous I can't go places.'

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; truth is not.

The difference between truth and fiction is that the latter must always be credible in order to work.

Expectations should not always be taken as reality; because you never know when you will be disappointed.

He laughed. "So you see, I'm not a nut. Not a real one, anyway. I haven't been a real nut in a long time.

We all live our lives from the inside of our bodies out, not from the outside in. Which is why fiction has the texture that it does.

Truth is what's important in the world. But is what's important always the truth?

It is not that love sometimes makes mistakes, but that it is, essentially, a mistake. We fall in love when our imagination projects nonexistent perfections on to another person. One day the phantasmagoria vanishes, and with it love dies. Ortega y Gasset, On Love

There is so much you don't see. You walk around in a world with holes in it; you stumble into them; and get hurt.

When a guy gets out and gets his face ground into the real world he comes up angry, wants to know how it works, and he'll believe anybody who tells him how, right or wrong.

Some people's information is other people's misinformation and even disinformation. That is pretty much the contemporary condition.

An individual, a thing apart from its environment, and apart from all things in that environment; an individual was a type of thing for which symbols were inadequate, and so names were invented. I am invented.

Plato's discussants and querents are not polite as students and teachers are polite. They are polite the way only fantasy discussants can be civil inside a fantasy. Were they real, they'd be at each other's throats before eight or nine pages were done.