Reality Quotes - page 8

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces. (Sigmund Freud)
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like. View quote
Laozi
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
One thing I have learned in a long life that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike - and yet it is the most precious thing we have. View quote
Albert Einstein
People want reality that tells them how right they are all the time. View quote
David Brooks
Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality? View quote
George Moore (novelist)
It is the considered opinion of most members of our rational élites that, in any given difference of opinion with reality, reality is wrong. View quote
John Ralston Saul
Your reality, isn't restricted by this cell we live in. If you read something, if you study something, you transcend any cell you're inside of. View quote
Manuel Puig
I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams. View quote
Manuel Puig
I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality. View quote
Manuel Puig
I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution. (Manuel Puig)
Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand, leaves them at an imaginary level. View quote
Manuel Puig
As I said earlier, there are no writers who could create a literary vision of the new reality. View quote
Andrzej Wajda
Nevertheless, in the theatre, and in the cinema, the contemporary reality of Poland has been represented only to a minuscule degree in the last 12 years. View quote
Andrzej Wajda
Some of the best theorizing comes after collecting data because then you become aware of another reality. View quote
Robert J. Shiller
Somehow, talking to young students brings you back to reality - it should, anyway. View quote
Robert J. Shiller
When you are into mathematics, you have been so high on the scale of complexity of reasoning that you are living in some kind of altered reality. You think everybody on the street is able to understand complicated reasoning [...]. And you get very frustrated, when you discover that's not the case. View quote
Cédric Villani
Desire, she realized, was a thick fog that could completely obscure reality. View quote
Steve Perry
One person's craziness is another person's reality. View quote
Tim Burton
Scientific reality is the modern human condition, and you can see that in the symbolic nature of my work. View quote
Thom Mayne
The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality. (Tom Felton)
Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then. View quote
Philip K. Dick
Genius is a curse. That's how I look at it. Some think that the brilliant comprehend the universe in a way the rest of us can't. They see the world how it truly is-and that reality is so horrible the lose their minds. Clarity leads to insanity. View quote
Harlan Coben
Delight in itself is the approach of sanity. Delight is to open our eyes to the reality of the situation rather than siding with this or that point of view. View quote
Chogyam Trungpa
It is true that I am not one of those who laugh at utopias. The utopia of today can become the reality of tomorrow. Utopias are conceived by optimistic logic which regards constant social and political progress as the ultimate goal of human endeavor; pessimism would plunge a hopeless mankind into a fresh cataclysm. View quote
Charles Albert Gobat