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Quotes About Reality

Death is a mighty, universal truth.
~ Charles Dickens
The place for truth is not in the facts of a novel; it is in the feelings.
~ Mary Stewart
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Man can certainly keep on lying (and does so), but he cannot make truth falsehood.
~ Karl Barth
Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.
~ George Eliot, Middlemarch
Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.
~ George Eliot
The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth.
~ Flannery O'Connor
Faction is that hybrid of documented fact and novelistic elaboration.
~ Norman Mailer
The sacred exists only at the expense of the truth.
~ Mark Russell
We both know that, my friend, but a man's perception soon becomes his reality.
~ Tim LaHaye, Nicolae
If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
~ E. O. Wilson
I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation.
~ Brendan Coyle
As a nation - and as a world - we need more truth.
~ John Legend
The State is the absolute reality and the individual himself has objective existence, truth and morality only in his capacity as a member of the State.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The importance of humility. We need the humility to know that truth can be ephemeral, that this can be but one version of the truth.
~ Ken Auletta
What, then is truth?... Truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Don't go for happiness, go for truth!
~ Charles Tart
Whatever is associated with the mind is bound to change. The truth is that which is changeless. It is the Self.
~ Mata Amritanandamayi
I believe in saying the truth, coming out with it cold, shocking if necessary, not disguising it.
~ Henry Miller
You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.
~ Robertson Davies
Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude.
~ Katharine Fullerton Gerould
There are some lies that, under the right circumstances, are the only truth
~ Simon Van Booy
I have been saying and writing for so many years that one sentence can encapsulate the totality of life, of existence, of being: Infinite love is the only truth-everything else is Illusion.
~ David Icke
There's always a germ of truth in just about everything.
~ Jim Lehrer