reality quotes

• Reality is merely an illusion, although a very persistent one. (Albert Einstein) [reality]
• People think they have taken quite an extraordinarily bold step forward when they have rid themselves of belief in hereditary monarchy and swear by the democratic republic. In reality, however, the state is nothing but a machine for the oppression of one class by another, and indeed in the democratic republic no less than in the monarchy. (Friedrich Engels) [people/think/reality/state]
• The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. (Hannah Arendt) [reality]
• An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for it. (Richard Bach) [being/power/reality]
• People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster. (James Baldwin) [people/eyes/reality/destruction]
• We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed. (James Baldwin) [take/reality/dependence/reality]
• Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love. (Georges Bataille) [life/reality/love]
• The liberated man is not the one who is freed in his ideal reality, his inner truth, or his transparency; he is the man who changes spaces, who circulates, who changes sex, clothes, and habits according to fashion, rather than morality, and who changes opinions not as his conscience dictates but in response to opinion polls. (Jean Baudrillard) [reality/truth/changes/changes]
• The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception. (Walter Benjamin) [reality/reality/process/scope]
• Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality. (Arnold Bennett) [reality]
• Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind. (Edmund Burke) [give/reality/color/mankind]
• Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion. (Albert Camus) [give/revolution/reality/rebellion]
• Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil. (Albert Camus) [virtue/reality/evil]
• Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction. (Thomas Carlyle) [reality]
• It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts. (Shirley Chisholm) [reality/more/television/more]
• Socialism is like a dream. Sooner or later you wake up to reality. (Winston Churchill) [reality]
• Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. (Joseph Conrad) [words/reality]
• Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion. (David Cronenberg) [censors/reality]
• You can dream, create, design and build the most wonderful place in the world, but it requires people to make the dream a reality. (Walt Disney) [design/people/reality]
• As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. (Albert Einstein) [reality/reality]
• Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. (Albert Einstein) [reality]
• It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to infer. But our wiser years still run back to the despised recollections of childhood, and always we are fishing up some wonderful article out of that pond; until, by and by, we begin to suspect that the biography of the one foolish person we know is, in reality, nothing less than the miniature paraphrase of the hundred volumes of the Universal History. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [childhood/fishing/reality]
• People think they have taken quite an extraordinarily bold step forward when they have rid themselves of belief in hereditary monarchy and swear by the democratic republic. In reality, however, the state is nothing but a machine for the oppression of one class by another, and indeed in the democratic republic no less than in the monarchy. (Friedrich Engels) [people/think/reality/state]
• In reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are. (Henry Fielding) [reality/men]
• The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful. (Nadine Gordimer) [god/reality]
• Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism. (Germaine Greer) [women/reality/men/being]
• Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond. (Georg Hegel) [truth/philosophy/reality]
• You treat world history as a mathematician does mathematics, in which nothing but laws and formulas exist, no reality, no good and evil, no time, no yesterday, no tomorrow, nothing but an eternal, shallow, mathematical present. (Hermann Hesse) [reality/evil/time/]
• Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them. (Hermann Hesse) [reality]
• Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true. (Napoleon Hill) [power/thoughts/reality]
• First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination. (Napoleon Hill) [/reality/willpower/imagination]

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