Quotes About Reality

To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.

Reality offers us such wealth that we must cut some of it out on the spot, simplify. The question is, do we always cut out what we should? ­

Doubt of the reality of love ends by making us doubt everything.

Precision is not reality.

Exactitude is not truth.

Reality always falls short of essence. Every child knows that.

Extending his hands from his bed, Plume was astonished not to feel the wall: "Well," he concluded, "the ants must have eaten it away." And he went back to sleep. Shortly thereafter, his wife shook him awake: "Take a good look, lazybones! While you were so busy sleeping, someone went and stole our house!" And indeed, stretching out on every side there was nothing but solid sky. "So it goes," he thought.

Science is facts.

A belief is not true because it is useful.

A bubble of air in the blood, a drop of water in the brain, and a man is out of gear, his machine falls to pieces, his thought vanishes, the world disappears from him like a dream at morning. On what a spider thread is hung our individual existence!

Time is the supreme illusion. It is but the inner prism by which we decompose being and life, the mode under which we perceive successively what is simultaneous in idea.

Take the life-lie away from the average man and straightaway you take away his happiness.

Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse.

Ultimately, these acts of abuse and aggression offer evidence of a new reality emerging in the United States that enshrines a politics of disposability, in which growing numbers of people are considered to be a dispensable drain on the economy and thus an affront to the sensibilities of the rich and powerful.

If we put our trust in the common sense of common men and 'with malice toward none and charity for all' go forward on the great adventure of making political, economic and social democracy a practical reality, we shall not fail.

All governments, books, customs, buildings, railways, ships, and all the stark realities that men have made, are but imagination's utterances.

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Mistakes live in the neighbourhood of truth and therefore delude us.

Rhythm is a conception, not a physical reality. It is true that, to be realized in music, rhythm must be marked by some sort of sound, but this sound is not itself the rhythm.

Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science.

The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact.