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Quotes About Reality

The postmodern worldview denies that there is such a thing as truth: historical, moral, or otherwise. It denies that truth exists independently of our perspectives and interests.
~ Mark Earley
The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I learned life were no dream I learned truth deceived Man is not God Life is a century Death an instant
~ Gregory Corso
Americans need to face the truth about themselves, no matter how pleasant it is.
~ Jeane Kirkpatrick
There's more beauty in the truth even if it is dreadful beauty.
~ John Steinbeck
As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, 'What is truth?'
~ Richard Whately
All we can do is go around telling the truth.
~ Carson McCullers
I adore [photography's] uneasy mix of fact and fiction - its dubious claim to truth - its status as history.
~ Eleanor Antin
Truth will flourish in fantasy, only to wither and die in what you are pleased to call reality.
~ Bernard Schubert
A sweet lie is more gracious for us than a virulent but real truth.
~ Anton Chekhov
Science is but an image of the truth.
~ Francis Bacon
There is neither creation nor destruction, neither destiny nor free will, neither path nor achievement. This is the final truth.
~ Ramana Maharshi
Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
~ Herman Melville
It is not man who pursues truth, but truth man.
~ Lev Shestov
The truth will always have a market.
~ Jean Shepherd
I perceive everything to be constantly subjective and strange. My version of truth in what I express, it feels like that opaque quality that you're talking about. It's just me being legitimate.
~ Paul Banks
The truth brings no man a fortune.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
~ John Locke
I think that the truth is a really stern taskmistress.
~ Carrie Fisher
To crooked eyes truth may wear a wry face
~ J.R.R. Tolkien
Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
~ Nadine Gordimer
What happens is fact, not truth. Truth is what we think about what happens.
~ Robert McKee
The truth, finally, is who can tell it.
~ Chang-rae Lee, Native Speaker
The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.
~ George Santayana