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Quotes About Reality

Therefore, let me in honesty speak the truth about our epoch and people.
~ August Sander
The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
~ Hermann Hesse
It was the first time I realized that absolute reality could be so much more fun than fantasy.
~ Lindsay Lohan
In my heart I know the truth, but my mind cannot accept the reality of what this all means.
~ Loung Ung
There is nothing more poetic than the truth. He who does not see poetry in it will always be a poor versifier outside of it.
~ Multatuli
No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth.
~ Bernard Baruch
Imaginative truth is the most immediate way of presenting ultimate reality to a human being... ultimate reality is what we call God.
~ R. S. Thomas
Truth, like beauty, is neither created nor lost.
~ Nicanor Parra
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.
~ Carrie Vaughn
Nothing is really beautiful but truth, and truth alone is lovely.
~ Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
What is more true than anything else? To swim is true and to sink is true. One cannot speak any more of being, one must speak onlyof the mess.
~ Samuel Beckett
If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it's not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
We were talking about the space between us all and the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion. Never glimpse the truth - then it's far too late when they pass away.
~ George Harrison
Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.
~ Lemony Snicket, The Blank Book
Reality is what trips you up when you walk around with your eyes closed.
~ F. Paul Wilson, Healer
If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
~ Karl Kraus
Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both art and truth.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
The individual point of view is the only point of view from which one is able to look at the world in its truth.
~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
I had build up false pictures in my mind and sat before them. I had never had the courage to demand the truth.
~ Daphne du Maurier
No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.
~ Henry David Thoreau
All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
~ Ludwig von Mises
All time exists. That is the truth.... If the future did not exist now, how could we journey toward it? If the past does not exist still, how could we leave it behind?
~ Gene Wolfe