Quotes on Reality

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

Size is not a reality, but a construct of the mind; and space a construct to contain constructs.

In order to more fully understand this reality, we must take into account other dimensions of a broader reality.

Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.

The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.

From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.

Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.

Memories are thoughts that arise. They're not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it's just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.

I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone's imagination.

We leave traces of ourselves wherever we go, on whatever we touch.

In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.

Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.