Quotes About Reality

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. —G. K. CHESTERTON

Aunque para la mayoría de nosotros esta posibilidad parece remota, puede ser más real de lo que creemos. La idea de que no se puede persuadir a ninguna persona inocente a confesar un crimen, en especial uno de gravedad, es errónea. Y, de hecho, ocurre con una frecuencia perturbadora.

Has anyone ever told you," I said, "that you coalesce reality?" "No. They only say that I'm good in the sack." "They are accurate but limited," I said. "And if you give me their names I'll kill them.

Too much positive is either scared or stupid or both. Reality is uncertain.

I believe that if we dispense with mythologies that have distracted us from the reality we find ourselves in, we can make capitalism work for most of us rather than for only a relative handful.

Life is not all glided out to the measures of a Strauss waltz.

An aggressive reason that seeks always to grasp on its own terms will never come to know deeper dimensions of reality, including and especially the personal. Such depths can be plumbed only through something like a faith that accepts and receives.

The first hour of accomplished love is perhaps the only passage in a man's life with which he is perfectly satisfied. It is the only reality that does not disappoint the dream of expectation. There is no region of speculation beyond it--its horizon bounds the world.

It is not so much by any power inherent in himself that the magician works, as by the ductility of that material of gaping credulity upon which he operates.

People who travel only in their arm-chairs acquire notions of foreign places which reality usually upsets at the first glance.

We're all not quite as sane as we pretend to be.

Some men think the Earth is round, others think it flat; it is a matter capable of question. But, if it is flat, will the King's command make it round? And, if it is round, will the King's command flatten it?

The world is deceived by nothing. It must be given something by which to seem deceived.

Modeling isn't the glamorous job most people believe it to be. The hours and conditions can be harsh and more often than not a model's career is over before it ever starts.

Every sane person has to find every day some manner of accommodating the impossible, some way of covering up for the failures of the rational world. This might actually be a reasonable definition of sanity.

Perception is a clash of mind and eye, the eye believing what it sees, the mind seeing what it believes.

There is no tomorrow. There is only a planet turning on its axis, and a creature given to optimistic fancies.

Question reality, especially if it contradicts the evidence of your hopes and dreams.

The artist gazes upon a reality and creates his own impression. The viewer gazes upon the impression and creates his own reality.

You can accept reality, or you can persist in your purpose until reality accepts you.

Somewhere between the honest truth and the deceptive lie is the deceptive truth and the honest lie.

If I choose abstraction over reality, it is because I find it the lesser chaos.

The hardest thing about reality is returning to it after an hour inside your child's mind.

How do you tell an optimist that he or she has lived a happy life by mistake?