The space within becomes the reality of the building.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.
Charles Baudelaire

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Samuel Johnson

If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both.
Bodhidharma

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

I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.
Garrison Keillor

At the beginning of the 60's our country called the foreign workers to come to Germany and now they live in our country. We kidded ourselves a while, we said: 'They won't stay, sometime they will be gone.' But this isn't reality.
Angela Merkel

Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.
Wallace Stevens

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

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.
George Santayana

What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.
Wallace Stevens

Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.
Abraham Maslow

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
Ray Bradbury

Of all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realise - than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality.
Lester B. Pearson

The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
Gottfried Leibniz

Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited.
Gottfried Leibniz

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca