Quotes About Reality

Reality is obtained not by imitation, but by producing the sense of nature.

He that had never seen a river imagined the first he met to be the sea; and the greatest things that have fallen within our knowledge we conclude the extremes that nature makes of the kind.

The nature of the universe probably depends heavily on who is the actual protagonist. Lately I've been suspecting it's one of my cats.

Nature is usually wrong.

In the long run our boasted control of nature is a delusion.

Love is nature's LSD. You're going to see things that aren't really there.

What is pretty in nature is confined to the thin skin of the globe upon which we huddle. Scratch that skin, and nature's daemonic ugliness will erupt.

This idea that people have to love and understand each other is absurd. It's not human nature.

Man maketh a death which Nature never made.

For centuries the word 'nature' has been used to bolster prejudices or to express, not reality, but a state of affairs that the user would wish to see.

To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease to substitute a phantom for reality.

You have not known even a fragment of My reality. The full nature of this reality can never be understood by anyone.

Reason deceives us more often than does nature.

Of what I call God, And fools call Nature.

Nature is as it is because this is the only possible nature consistent with itself.

In nature alone are forms. That which is not of nature cannot have any forms, fine or gross. It must be formless.

People were usually much better in their letters than in reality. They were much like poets in this way.

I'm human. That's how humans spend their time, doing shitty things.

Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.

Tragedy had sent me headlong into reality. All the things I had seen before now looked different, even nature.

Appearance should never attain reality, And if nature conquers, then must art retire.

God has become human. The absolute has become particular. The ideal has become real. The divine has taken up a human nature.

As a result, nature is something entirely different from what comes to mind when we invoke its name.

Sometimes writers say true things about the overall nature of publicity, promotion, and the publishing industry; but alas, not always.