Reality Quotes

Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Truth, Philosophy, Means

No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by.
Franz Schubert

Joy, Another, Grief

Mother Nature comes up against reality, and the reality is that the system doesn't work.
John Garamendi

Work, Nature, Mother

Reality is not always probable, or likely.
Jorge Luis Borges

Likely, Probable

The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.
Karl Jaspers

History, Alone, Philosophy

The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.
Hannah Arendt

Third, Ideology

The cold harsh reality is that we have to balance the budget.
Michael Bloomberg

Balance, Cold, Budget

Writers are completely out of touch with reality.
Joss Whedon

In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it.
Ani DiFranco

Keep, Order, Logical

We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.
Pope Benedict XVI

Marriage, Great, Respect

Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye, and deny it.
Garrison Keillor

Sometimes, Eye, Deny

With photography a new language has been created. Now for the first time it is possible to express reality by reality. We can look at an impression as long as we wish, we can delve into it and, so to speak, renew past experiences at will.
Ernst Haas

Time, Past, Long

True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.
William Ralph Inge

Faith, True, Values

The supernatural birth of Christ, his miracles, his resurrection and ascension, remain eternal truths, whatever doubts may be cast on their reality as historical facts.
David Friedrich Strauss

May, Whatever, Miracles

It was just you had to be strong, and if you weren't strong you're a victim and you're not going to make it. That was the reality when I was growing up.
Laurell K. Hamilton

Strong, Growing, Victim

The idea that the rest of the world was somehow being held hostage by the Arab-Israeli conflict once had a minimal basis in reality. In the first 20 years of Israel's existence, every Arab country was in an active state of war with the Jewish state.
John Podhoretz

War, Country, Once

I liked pretending to be other people: I could reinvent myself, reinvent my own reality.
Helena Bonham Carter

Pretending, Liked, Reinvent

Size is not a reality, but a construct of the mind; and space a construct to contain constructs.
Robert Anton Wilson

Mind, Space, Size

Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.
Salman Rushdie

Sometimes, Become, Facts

It was simple reality - most competitive tennis players in my day were privileged, spoiled, entitled and white. Also, many of them were beautiful, fit, tan and of good stock - great big hair and white teeth and long legs. Then there were the rest of us.
Anne Lamott

Good, Great, Beautiful

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is a reality.
Yoko Ono

Alone, Together, Dream

Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out there, but the stuff inside your head. It's going to be commercial and nasty at the same time.
J. G. Ballard

Time, Computers, Help

I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises - but only performance is reality.
Harold S. Geneen

Business, Words, Law

In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.
Harold S. Geneen

Business, Words, Promises

If we put our trust in the common sense of common men and 'with malice toward none and charity for all' go forward on the great adventure of making political, economic and social democracy a practical reality, we shall not fail.
Henry A. Wallace

Trust, Great, Men

Even if you plan a marriage and a family, you are never quite prepared for the reality versus how you imagined it. In a lot of ways it's better, and in a lot of ways it's worse. That's life, right?
Katherine Heigl

Life, Marriage, Family

The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
Muhammad Iqbal

Experience, Individual, Religious

You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.
Annie Leibovitz

Truth, Nothing, Stranger

If heaven is understood more as God's space on earth than as an ethereal region apart from the essential reality we know, then what happens on earth matters even more than we think, for the Christian life becomes a continuation of the unfolding work of Jesus, who will one day return to set the world to rights.
Jon Meacham

Life, Work, God

Reality is something you rise above.
Liza Minnelli

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