Quotes About Reality

My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.

I teach at Harvard that the world and the heavens, and the stars are all real, but not so damned real, you see.

Drama school was the first place I learned that looks can affect your career. It was very horrible at the time. I had a lot of very bad experiences at drama school because of that, from the teachers and the students. In the end, I think it was good for me because it hardened me to the realities of the business early on.

Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.

A great artist transforms our world, removes scales from our eyes, plugs from our ears, gloves from our fingertips, teaches us to perceive reality differently.

If I had children, as soon as I have them, I'm teaching them everything I know. I don't want to feed you fairytales. Fairytales are nice. But they come to an end, and then you have to face reality.

In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations.

I'm not that good looking... nobody is that good looking. I have seen a lot of movie stars, and maybe four are amazing looking. The rest have a team of gay guys who make it happen.

The reality is this: Fighting isn't a team sport; it's an individual's sport.

Bueno, todos debemos hacer cosas que no nos gustan, la vida es así.

I hope you had an entertaining time following me around." I took my keys out. "You should be a reality show," he said. "It's that good. And you know, I might be a totally unstable former assassin, but man. You manage to shock even me.

Dreams, dreams. I walk them; I live them. I delude myself with them. It's a wonder I can spot reality anymore.

We didn't live in a normal world, of course, but in this kiss, it was easy to imagine we did.

Me cogió la cara entre sus manos con unos ojos llenos de intensidad y de deseo con un poco de asombro. -Dime Rose Hathaway ¿Qué eres? ¿eres real? eres un sueño dentro de un sueño, me da miedo que tocarte me vaya hacer despertar y que desaparezcas.

Life, unfortunately, doesn't seem to care what we want

haven't had to come up with some dreamy escape plan in a while." Sydney trailed her fingers down the side of my face. "That's because we're living it, Adrian. This is the only escape plan we need.

Santayana wrote, "The empiricist…thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than seeing." That

It wasn't that I had gotten it right . . . but that I had gotten true.

It wasn't that I had gotten it right . . . but that I had gotten it true.

I am not that creative. And therefore you must be real.

One did not argue with people who denied reality. Which was why the pundit Stewart Alsop wrote that conservatism was "not really a coherent, rational alternative at all—it is hardly more than an angry cry of protest against things as they are";

when you tell the truth your problems become part of your past, but when you lie they become part of your future.

THE BIG LIE

This prophesied period of deception will be so intense that people will believe what is false over what is obviously true, even denying facts and truths that are common sense and that nature itself teaches (see Romans 1:20).