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| Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away. ~ Philip K. Dick |
| Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. ~ Albert Einstein |
| Are you really sure that a floor can’t also be a ceiling? ~ M.C. Escher |
| No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability. ~ Samuel Johnson |
| How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg. ~ Abraham Lincoln |
| Most passport pictures are good likenesses, and it is time we faced it. ~ Katharine Brush |
| There is an objective reality out there, but we view it through the spectacles of our beliefs, attitudes, and values. ~ David G. Myers, |
| Objectivity has about as much substance as the emperor’s new clothes. ~ Connie Miller |
| 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 |
| How do we know that the sky is not green and we are all colour-blind? ~ Author Unknown |
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| There are no facts, only interpretations. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche |
| What is reality anyway! It’s nothing but a collective hunch. ~ Jane Wagner, |
| What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn’t everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist. ~ Pablo Picasso |
I am a thread too slender
To suspend all this reality…
~ Phillip Pulfrey |
| What was once called the objective world is a sort of Rorschach ink blot, into which each culture, each system of science and religion, each type of personality, reads a meaning only remotely derived from the shape and color of the blot itself. ~ Lewis Mumford, "Orientation to Life," |
| Reality leaves a lot to the imagination. ~ John Lennon |
| Humankind cannot bear very much reality. ~ T.S. Eliot |
| Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion. ~ Democritus |
| Gertrude Jekyll, like Monet, was a painter with poor eyesight, and their gardens – his at Giverny in the Seine valley, hers in Surrey – had resemblances that may have sprung from this condition. Both loved plants that foamed and frothed over walls and pergolas, spread in tides beneath trees; both saw flowers in islands of colored light – an image the normal eye captures only by squinting. ~ Eleanor Perenyi |
| What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable. ~ Louise Nevelson |
| It must be hard to be a model, because you’d want to be like the photograph of you, and you can’t ever look that way. ~ Andy Warhol |
| Few people have the imagination for reality. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, but to imagine your facts is another. ~ John Burroughs |
| I have a very firm grasp on reality! I can reach out and strangle it any time! ~ Author Unknown |
| Reality is not always probable, or likely. ~ Jorge Luis Borges |
| Question reality, especially if it contradicts the evidence of your hopes and dreams. ~ Robert Brault |
| What happens to the wide-eyed observer when the window between reality and unreality breaks and the glass begins to fly? ~ Author Unknown |
| Okay, who put a "stop payment" on my reality check? ~ Author Unknown |
| Listening to both sides of a story will convince you that there is more to a story than both sides. ~ Frank Tyger |
| Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their "agreement," as falsity means their disagreement, with "reality." ~ William James |