Quotes About Reality

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.

Truths are more than imagination; they are real. Yet their origin is a thought in the mind of God.

But thou that didst appear so fair To fond imagination, Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.

Reality is the cage of those who lack imagination.

There is a place of imagination, and it is entirely real.

Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.

Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality.

You create your own universe as you go along. The stronger your imagination, the more variegated your universe. When you leave off dreaming, the universe ceases to exist.

When our desires are fulfilled, we never fail to realize the wealth of imagination and the paucity of reality.

Everything we can imagine becomes real.

Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.

Illusion throughout is illusion. There is no end to it, just as there is no end to imagination.

There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.

You see, this would be a death by the imagination. And though the imagination feeds on phantoms, it needs a premise in reality to begin with. Then it can go on from there under its own power.

The only moment ever available to you is the present moment. Everything else is memory or imagination.

Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.

Everyone must go through all experiences but they need not go through them all in reality -they can do it vicariously, by imagination.

He had prepared his death much earlier, in his imagination, unaware that his imagination, more creative than he, was planning the reality of that death.

A truly open mind means forcing our imaginations to conform to the evidence of reality, and not vice versa.

Virtual reality is a denial of reality. We need to be open to the powers of imagination, which brings something useful to reality. Virtual reality can imprison people.

A figment of the imagination is just a harmless illusion - unless you are victim of it.

People who think my books are autobiographical, which they're not, credit me with having a much better memory than I do. I do, however, have a powerful imagination