Quotes about Reality

I think, knowing full well that we always try to interpret things in accordance with what we want ant as they are.

If what one finds is made of pure matter,it will never spoil. And one can always come back. If what you had found was only a moment of light, like the explosion of a star, you would find nothing on your return.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments.

Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.

We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

While I wholeheartedly believe in choosing to approach every challenge with a great attitude, I don't mean that we should abandon authenticity and live in fantasyland.

The point is this: If God does not exist, then life is objectively meaningless; but man cannot live consistently and happily knowing that life is meaningless; so in order to be happy he pretends life has meaning. But this is, of course, entirely inconsistent—for without God, man and the universe are without any real significance.

Illness must be considered to be as natural as health.

Choose reality, Sarah. It's the only place where strength and faith can begin to work.

Human nature is not an empty notion, no purely abstract conception, but a reality, a particular manner of being, which includes distinctive habits, inclinations, and attributes.

Reality is a crutch for people who can't handle drugs.