Quotes about Reality

There is no physical gulf between the philosopher's class room and the bull ring; but the bull fighters do not come to the class room for all that.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.

A perfectly sane intellect is hardly at home in this insane world.

But I wasn't worth doing wrong for---- nothing is in this world. Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

Mrs. Davilow have willingly let fall a hint of the aerial castle-building which she had

No one thinks of your appearance, you are so sensible and useful, Mary. Beauty is of very little consequence in reality

Sometimes Maggie thought she could have been contented with absorbing fancies; if she could have had all Scott's novels and all Byron's poems!—then, perhaps, she might have found happiness enough to dull her sensibility to her actual daily life.

Sometimes Maggie thought she could have been contented with absorbing fancies; if she could have had all Scott's novels and all Byron's poems!—then, perhaps, she might have found happiness enough to dull her sensibility to her actual daily life. And yet they were hardly what she wanted. She could make dream-worlds of her own, but no dream-world would satisfy her now.

Wonder is that possession of the mind that enchants the emotions while never surrendering reason. It is a grasp on reality that does not need constant high points in order to be maintained, nor is it made vulnerable by the low points of life's struggle.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.