Quotes about Reality

Going to war is a rare experience in American culture, so it's easy for simple notions to gain a lot of weight. The reality is always more complex.

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

The real deal is always going to win in the end.

I cannot imagine a more realistic faith than the Christian faith. At every turn, we are told we are death-determined creatures and that our lives, our all too brief lives, at the very least will be complex if not difficult.

Our 'realities' are make-believe - whatever we make ourselves believe, we experience.

Our intention creates our reality.

Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality.

Prudence is what makes someone a great commodities trader - the capacity to face reality squarely in the eye without allowing emotion or ego to get in the way. It's what is needed by every quarterback or battlefield general.

Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.

She is to him the reality of romance, the leaner good sense of nonsense, the unveiling of his eyes, the freeing of his soul, the abolition of time, place and circumstance, the etherealization of his blood into rapturous rivers of the very water of life itself, the revelation of all the mysteries and the sanctification of all the dogmas.