Quotes About Reality

People lived as they had always done; there was no break between past and present. All that had happened in the past had washed away; there was always only the present. It was as though, as a result of some disturbance in the heavens, the early morning light was always receding into the darkness, and men lived in a perpetual dawn

We had become what the world outside had made us; we had to live in the world as it existed.

Reality is always separate from the ideal; but in Trinidad this fantasy is a form of masochism and is infinitely more cheating than the fantasy which makes the poor delight in films about rich or makes the English singer use and American accent.

All landscapes eventually turn to land, the gold of the imagination to the lead of reality

A small woman came with a child on her hip. She was pregnant again. And then I saw that she was herself hardly more than a child, twelve or thirteen, but excited at the idea of already being adult enough to experience important needs. Everyone was acting (though the man with the djinn, after his flash of vanity, seemed a little too far away); everyone knew his role. But was it acting when the whole world, or the world you knew, was in the play?

adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain.

Stephen Jay Gould

The truth is not simply what you think it is; it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why, and how it is said.

we will not succeed if our actions are based on myths and misinformation.

Numbers may not lie, but individual perceptions of them differ.

Claims about the dematerialization of modern economies and about a postindustrial world in which manufacturing does not matter are costly misinterpretations of fundamental realities.

Rigid ranking based on minuscule differences misleads rather than informs. Rounding and approximation is superior to unwarranted and unnecessary precision. Doubt, caution, and incessant questioning are in order—but so is the insistence on quantifying the complex realities of the modern world. If we are to understand many unruly realities, if we are to base our decisions on the best available information, then there is no substitute for this pursuit.

clichés got that way because they reflected reality. Better the devil you know. Don't take sweets from strangers.

We were disciplined and obedient to authority. We realized that truth and lies were twin sisters, and that truth on earth came in thousands of different forms.

I had been imagining what war was like - everything on fire, children crying, cats running about, and when we got to Stalingrad it really turned out to be like that, only more terrible.

But once, when she was singing his praises, her mother interrupted 'No, no, I've seen too many young people like that - both when I was a student in Petersburg and when I was in exile in Siberia. They just don't know how to reconcile love of humanity and love for an actual person.

Only his own fist possessed weight and reality.

In reality, myth was that which took the place of analysis in former times. … It showed that there was the universe, but one knew that there was also something else. One knew that something stronger than the social existed.

Poate c? este timpul s? v? fac portretul lui Jasmin; dar în întuneric- fiindc? ferestrele nu se deschid niciodat?, de vreme ce Jasmin nu exist? È™i, prin urmare, nu poate avea mam?, ceea ce este incontestabil, dup? cum v? va dovedi urmarea acestei poveÈ™ti- în întuneric, deci, descrierea nu ar fi exact?.

Y mientras que el ensueño pertenece a todo el mundo, el delirio sólo pertenece a los poetas.

Everything in life begins as a dream. That is how the gods speak to us. First the dream and then the reality. Believe that and work for it and then the gods are on your side.

I wanted to see you again, touch you, know who you were, see if I would find you identical with the ideal image of you which had remained with me and perhaps shatter my dream with the aid of reality. -Claude Frollo

The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten.

He reached for his pocket, and found there, only reality