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| It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith |
| I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything. ~ John Steinbeck |
| Did you ever wonder if the person in the puddle is real, and you’re just a reflection of him? ~ Calvin and Hobbes |
| Belief in God? An afterlife? I believe in rock: this apodictic rock beneath my feet. ~ Edward Abbey |
| All the mind’s activity is easy if it is not subjected to reality. ~ Marcel Proust, |
| Reality bites… and doesn’t let go. ~ Author Unknown |
| The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it. ~ Francis Bacon |
| The formula "two and two make five" is not without its attractions. ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky, |
| Reality is too much to take in heapfuls, but sprinkle it sparingly upon life’s path and most can tread it lightly. ~ Astrid Alauda |
| How reluctantly the mind consents to reality! ~ Norman Douglas |
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| There is a fine line between dreams and reality, it’s up to you to draw it. ~ B. Quilliam |
| Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it’s in my basement… let me go upstairs and check. ~ M.C. Escher |
| There’s something beautifully soothing about a fact – even (or perhaps especially) if we’re not sure what it means. ~ Daniel J. Boorstin |
| Reality is a palette that humans paint on to let themselves sleep better at night. ~ Author Unknown |
| Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there. ~ E.H. Gombrich, |
| Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. ~ Jules de Gaultier |
| Everything you can imagine is real. ~ Pablo Picasso |
Faith is a fine invention
When gentlemen can see,
But microscopes are prudent
In an emergency.
~ Emily Dickinson, "Faith Is a Fine Invention," |
| Cloquet hated reality but realized it was still the only place to get a good steak. ~ Woody Allen |
| After you’ve heard two eyewitness accounts of an auto accident, you begin to worry about history. ~ Author Unknown |
| One bright day in the middle of night two dead boys rose to fight. Back to back they faced each other, drew their swords and shot one another. A deaf policeman heard the noise, and saved the lives of the two dead boys. If you don’t believe this lie is true, ask the blind man, he saw it too. ~ Author Unknown |
| Illusion is the first of all pleasures. ~ Voltaire |
| This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof. ~ Neil Gaiman, |
| Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures. ~ Jessamyn West |
| Every time I close the door on reality it comes in through the windows. ~ Jennifer Yane |
As I was sitting in my chair,
I knew the bottom wasn’t there,
Nor legs nor back, but I just sat,
Ignoring little things like that.
~ Hughes Mearns |
| Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it. ~ Jane Wagner |
| An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. ~ Mahatma Gandhi |