Quotes about Reality

They who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts.

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

God himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapse of all the ages. And we are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime and noble only by the perpetual instilling and drenching of the reality which surrounds us. The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us.

I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad.

Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream-world into a reality.

Those who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts.

It is a very remarkable and significant fact that though no man is quite well or healthy yet every one believes practically that health is the rule & disease the exception.

Do not engage to find things as you think they are.

The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they express by snoring.

Any truth is better than make-believe. Tom Hyde, the tinker, standing on the gallows, was asked if he had any thing to say. "Tell the tailors," said he, "to remember to make a knot in their thread before they take the first stitch." His companion's prayer is forgotten.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth.

If you chance to live and move and have your being in that thin stratum in which the events that make the news transpire- thinner than the paper on which it is printed- then these things will fill the world for you; but if you soar above or dive below that plane, you cannot remember nor be reminded of them. Really to see the sun rise or go down every day, so to relate ourselves to a universal fact, would preserve us sane forever.