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Quotes About Reality

Indeed, the human mind appeared to suffer from a crippling need to fabricate in the absence of concrete proof.
~ J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.
~ Marquis de Sade
I was very attracted to the way that Zen did not go into the imagination land. And now I've forgotten what your first question was and how we were going to tie this together.
~ Brad Warner
Imagination is not to be divorced from the facts. It is a way of illuminating the facts.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
I'm up to my neck in the real world, every day. Just you try doing your VAT return with a head full of goblins.
~ Terry Pratchett
Experience and imagination must enter into the very constitution of our thoughts involving concrete individuals.
~ Zeno Vendler
I have imagination, and nothing that is real is alien to me.
~ George Santayana
The magnificent cause of being, The imagination, the one reality In this imagined world.
~ Wallace Stevens
Imagination might be scarier than reality ... but not by much.
~ James Siegel
Except for its worst inner-city slums, America is not the primitive capitalist jungle of European imagination, where human beings slink away like wounded animals to die in bloodstained holes.
~ Timothy Garton Ash
I'm fairly certain. I could be some ghastly hallucination, a figment of my own imagination
~ Derek Landy
The imagination is not the consolation people pretend. It can even be regarded as the admission of some sort of failure.
~ Edmund White
Imagination and reality have little in common
~ Emmanuelle Riva
Imagination does not enable us to invent as many different contradictions as there are by nature in every heart.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The idea of self is dependent upon attraction, aversion and memory. Memory is simply a serial account of attractions and aversions that don't exist now except in imagination.
~ Frederick Lenz
When an imaginative person gets into mental trouble, the line between seeming and being has a way of disappearing-
~ Stephen King, Bag of Bones
Imagination is reality in one's mind waiting to come out at right time with enough efforts.
~ Prerak Trivedi
The awareness in the moment serves you the most when you are about to create your imagination into a reality.
~ Roshan Sharma
Our imagination is God's ingenious gift that hands us the privilege of romping and playing in realities that we can't see only because we've yet to create them.
~ Craig D. Lounsbrough
People often get their imagination's mixed up with their memories.
~ P.K. Shaw
There was something comforting about believing in things that didn't exist.
~ A. Lynn, Itsy's Ugly
Imagination can create lies that duals truths.
~ Lionel Suggs
Mathematicians enjoy thinking about the simplest possible things, and the simplestpossible things are imaginary.
~ Paul Lockhart
Everyone needs to escape sometimes, and retreating into somebody else's fantasy isn't nearly as satisfying as slipping into your own.
~ Nenia Campbell, Endgame