A play for me never really takes on an aspect of reality until it has left the dryair of the study and begins to sniff the musty breezes of a bare stage.

-Hart, Moss
  Act One.

The movie-makers are able to put more reality into a picture about theterrors of life at the ocean bottom than into a tale of two Milwaukeeans in love.

-Hecht, Ben
  In news reports,13  Jun.

La ve¤  rite¤   de l'art ne saurait jamais e"  tre†la re¤  alite¤ absolue. L'art ne peut donner la chose me"  me. The truth of art should never be†absolute reality. Art cannot show the thing itself.

-Hugo,Victor Marie
  Cromwell, pre¤  face.

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

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
Attributed.

The ethical reality of the individual is the only reality.

-Kierkegaard, So«  ren Aabye
  Concluding Unscientific Postscript, bk.2, pt.2, ch.3 (translated by Swenson and Lowrie).

  You have to take things to an extreme and then bring them back to reality.

-Klein, Calvin Richard
  On the fluctuating length of hemlines. In the NewYork Times, 9 Mar.

The authority of a belief imposed by religion surely destroys the discovery of reality.One relies on authority because one is afraid to stand alone.

-Krishnamurti,Jiddu
  BBC interview,7 Dec.

Success is the American Dream we can keep dreaming because most people in most places, including thirty million of ourselves, live wide awake in the terrible reality of poverty.

-Le Guin, Ursula ne¤  e Kroeber
   Address at Mills College. Collected as'A Left-Handed Commencement  Address' in Dancing at the Edge of the World (1989).

The function of news is to signalize an event, the functionoftruth istobring to lightthehiddenfacts, toset them into relationwith each other, and make a picture of reality on which men can act.Only at those points, where social conditions take recognizable and measurable shape, do the body of truth and the body of news coincide.

-Lippmann,Walter
  Public Opinion, ch.23.

   To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause with the birth of the modern world, is to experience a kind of straining against reality, a rebellious nonconformity that, again, is rare in America, where children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics.

-McCarthy,Joseph R(aymond)
  Of Catholicism. Memories of a Catholic Girlhood,'To the Reader'.

Natural politicians are skilled actors, recreating reality, adjusting and ad-libbing, synthesizing the scenes, saying the same thing over and over again and making it seem that theyare saying it for the first time.

-Maraniss, David
  Of Bill Clinton. First in His Class.

The wallpaper with which the men of science have covered the world of reality is falling to tatters.

-Miller, Henry Valentine
  The Tropic of Cancer.

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

-Miller, Henry Valentine
  Tropic of Cancer.

Social life ismutual negotiation and society, social order, relies on this mutual negotiation between individuals; this represents both creed and particular reality in American society. In no other society is this creed and the corresponding reality as prominent as the United States.

-Mu«  nch, Richard Friedrich
  'The  American Creed in Sociological Theory', in Sociological Theory, vol.4, issue 43.

Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality.

-Murray, Les(lie Allan)
  'The Sublime and the Good'.

Science provides a vision of reality seen from the perspective of reason, a perspective that sees the vast order of the universe, living and non-living matter, as a material system governed by rules that can be known by the human mind.It is a powerful vision, formal and austere but strangely silent about many of the questions that deeplyconcernus. Scienceshowsuswhat existsbut not what to do about it.

-Pagels, Heinz R(udolf)
  The Dreams of Reason. US writer, Professor of Humanities  at the University of the Arts, Philadelphia.  Her  works  include  Sexual  Personae  (1990)  and Vamps andTramps (1994).

Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only in the fact that it is the most perfect expression of the will to power†but also in the fact that it lacks meaning.

-Paz, Octavio
  Alternating Current.

There is no abstract art.You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

-Picasso, Pablo Ruiz y
  In an interview with Christian Zervos, editor of Cahiers d'Art, translatedbyAlfred H BarrJr in his Picasso: FiftyYears of His Art (1946).

In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable: and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality.

-Popper, Sir Karl Raimund
  The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1934), appendix to1959 edition.

Nous sommes tous oblige¤  s, pour rendre la re¤  alite¤ supportable, d'entretenir en nous quelques petites folies. We must all indulge in a few follies if we are to make reality bearable.

-Proust, Marcel
  A la recherche du temps perdu,'A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs'.