Quotes about Reality

We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them as appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause.

There are only two realities in life: death and laughter. We can do nothing to change the former, so we might as well do all we can to save the latter.

He shook my dozing soul and threw the cold water of reality in my face, so that life and God and heaven and hell broke into my world with glory and horror. (on CS Lewis)

I'm nothing like Romeo in real life.

Whereas we are inclined to equate the reality and the sense of the reality, these are different things—there can be a reality of God's presence and activity whether we feel it or not, and we can have a sense of God's reality and activity but the sense may be false.)

The greatest enemy of the truth is very often not the lie--delierate, contrived, and dishonest, but the myth persistent, peruasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

I have an habitual feeling of my real life having passed, and that I am leading a posthumous existence.

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced—even a Proverb is no proverb to you till your Life has illustrated it.

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination. What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth - whether it existed before or not.

Nothing ever becomes real 'til it is experienced.

Our goal must be, not to gain a divine knowledge of reality, but to obtain a human knowledge sufficient to carry out whatever calling God has given each of us.

Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.