Quotes about Reality

How could there be truths totally independent of minds or persons?... How could the things that are in fact true or false—propositions, let's say—exist in serene and majestic independence of persons and their means of apprehension? How could there be propositions no one has ever so much as grasped or thought of?

Fantasies can be great, but we shouldn't make the wedding a fantasy, because the wedding is the gateway to married life. It shouldn't be a moment of illusion; it should be a moment of preparation.

In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant. One motto on the show is, 'Keep your facts, I'm going with the truth.'

You can't make everyone happy. You just do what you can, and that's it... you're always going to catch criticism no matter what you do.

My black hero is and always will be Martin Luther King, not just because of the strength of his oratory but because his vision was very much the reality that I'd come to take for granted.

Athletic ability can be taken away like that. It can all end in a heartbeat.

We can deny reality, but we can't deny the consequences of denying reality.

We all have two stories---the journal of our life evnets, and the fiction we tell ourselves about them. Charles James's Diary

That which we expect of life is indeed all that it ever can be

most people don't want truth. They want confirmation.

All gold does not glitter.

Consider your own deepest fears-real or imagined. Actually all fear is born of the imagination, which means that the danger we fear doesn't need to be rational or even real to be potent.