• Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.

  

  Hermann Hesse

  PoetGerman1877 · 19th century

  4.0 · 21 votes · 86 reads

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• Our intention creates our reality.

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  Walter Benjamin

  PhilosopherGerman1892 · 19th century

  4.0 · 22 votes · 83 reads

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• Realism should only be the means of expression of religious genius... or, at the other extreme, the artistic expressions of monkeys which are quite satisfied with mere imitation. In fact, art is never realistic though sometimes it is tempted to be. To be

  

  Albert Camus

  NovelistFrench1913 · 20th century

  3.9 · 6 votes · 149 reads

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• Realists do not fear the results of their study.

  

  Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  WriterRussian1821 · 19th century

  4.4 · 14 votes · 126 reads

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• Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

  

  Graham Greene

  WriterEnglish1904 · 20th century

  3.8 · 58 votes · 148 reads

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• Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest -thought, action -is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go.

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  Cesare Pavese

  PoetItaly1908 · 20th century

  5.0 · 10 votes · 91 reads

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• Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems -but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems incredible.

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  Saint Thomas Aquinas

  TheologianRoman1224 · 13th century

  3.4 · 15 votes · 53 reads

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• Reality is for people who can't face drugs.

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  Laurence J. Peter

  WriterCanadian1919 · 20th century

  3.8 · 64 votes · 165 reads

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• Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

  

  Albert Einstein

  PhysicistGerman1879 · 19th century

  5.0 · 25 votes · 176 reads

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• Reality is not protected or defended by laws, proclamations, ukases, cannons and armadas. Reality is that which is sprouting all the time out of death and disintegration.

  

  Henry Miller

  AuthorAmerican1891 · 19th century

  3.8 · 47 votes · 111 reads

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• Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

  

  John Lennon

  MusicianBritish1940 · 20th century

  3.0 · 33 votes · 67 reads

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• Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  4.8 · 53 votes · 48 reads

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• The genuine artist is never ''true to life.'' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham

  WriterBritish1874 · 19th century

  3.8 · 19 votes · 93 reads

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• The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

  

  Abraham Lincoln

  PoliticianAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.9 · 8 votes · 87 reads

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• The supreme reality of our time is the vulnerability of this planet.

  

  John F. Kennedy

  PoliticianAmerican1917 · 20th century

  3.4 · 64 votes · 52 reads

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• The truly educated man is that rare individual who can separate reality from illusion.

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  Anonymous

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• The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.

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  Jean Baudrillard

  PhilosopherFrench1929 · 20th century

  4.9 · 7 votes · 54 reads

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• There is no unique picture of reality.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  3.5 · 15 votes · 182 reads

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• This sort of adoration of the real is but a heightening of the beau ideal.

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  3.4 · 54 votes · 78 reads

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• True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.

  

  Jean Cocteau

  AuthorFrench1889 · 19th century

  4.4 · 23 votes · 176 reads

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• We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.

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  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  MathematicianGerman1777 · 18th century

  3.5 · 62 votes · 146 reads

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• We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  4.8 · 11 votes · 31 reads

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• What is meant by ''reality''? It would seem to be something very erratic, very undependable - now to be found in a dusty road, now in a scrap of newspaper in the street, now a daffodil in the sun. It lights up a group in a room and stamps some casual sayi

  

  Vincent van Gogh

  PainterDutch1853 · 19th century

  4.2 · 57 votes · 110 reads

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• What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham

  WriterBritish1874 · 19th century

  3.3 · 28 votes · 29 reads

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• Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false?

  

  Simone de Beauvoir

  NovelistFrench1908 · 20th century

  4.0 · 37 votes · 188 reads

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• You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.2 · 21 votes · 136 reads

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