reality

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

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

There is an awesome reality to Rent Day. It comes trumpeting, forcing the days before it into a wild scramble.

—Angelou, Maya originally MayaJohnson

Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the shadow.

—Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)

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

—Klein, Calvin Richard

Go, go, go, said the bird: human kind Cannot bear very much reality.

—Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)

An Irishman's imagination never lets him alone, never convinces him, never satisfies him; but it makes him that he can't face reality nor deal with it nor handle it nor conquer it: he can only sneer at them that do, and be 'agreeable to strangers', like a good-for-nothing woman on the streets.

—Shaw, George Bernard

The choice is not between dream and reality; it is between two different dreams.

—Banks, Iain Menzies

How circumstantial reality is! Facts are like individual letters, with their spikes and loops and thorns, that make up words: eventually they hurt our eyes, and we long to take a bath, to rake the lawn, to look at the sea.

—Updike,John Hoyer

The existence of St Sophia is atmospheric; that of St Peter's, overpowering, imminently substantial.One is a church to God; the other a salon for his agents.One is consecrated to reality, the other to illusion. St Sophia, in fact, is large, and St Peter's is vilely, tragically small.

—Byron, Robert

A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it.

—Thomas, Dylan Marlais

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

—Miller, Henry Valentine

All craftsmen share a knowledge. They have held Reality down fluttering to a bench.

—Sackville-West,Vita (Victoria Mary)

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 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

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)

As faras the laws of mathematics refer to reality, theyare not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

—Einstein, Albert

The ethical reality of the individual is the only reality.

—Kierkegaard, So«  ren Aabye

In reality, killing time Is only the name for another of the multifarious ways By whichTime kills us.

—Sitwell, Sir (Francis) Osbert

Le colonialisme accule le peuple domine¤   a'   se poser constamment la question: 'Qui suis-je en re¤  alite¤  ?' Colonialism forces the people it dominates to ask themselves the question constantly: 'In reality, who am I?' f

—Fanon, Frantz Omar

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

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

The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulationof words.If youcan control themeaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.

—Dick, Philip K(indred)

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

The history of arms control is a history of great visions eventually mugged by reality.

—Adelman, Kenneth Lee

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

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

—Dick, Philip K(indred)

Everything is a dangerous drug to me except reality, which is unendurable.

—Connolly, Cyril Vernon

Reality is what I see, not what you see.

—Wilson

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

—Feynman, Richard P(hillips)

   We shall maintain that no statement which refers to a 'reality'transcending the limits of all possible sense- experience can possibly have any literal significance.

—Ayer, SirAlfred Jules

We were now actually in the inner sanctuary of the Nanda Devi Basin, and at each step I experienced that subtlethrill which anyone of imagination must feel when treading hitherto unexplored country† My most blissful dream as a child was to be in some such valley, free to wander where I liked, and discover for myself some hitherto unrevealed glory of Nature. Now the reality was no less wonderful than that half-forgotten dream; and of how many childish fancies can that be said, in this age of disillusionment ?

—Shipton, Eric Earle

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

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

—Picasso, Pablo Ruiz y

America hasjust passedthrough†an eight-yearcoma in which slogans were confused with solutions and rhetoric passed for reality.

—Bentsen, Lloyd Millard,Jr

Everywhere the sea is a teacher of truth. I am not sure that the best thing I find in sailing is not this salt of reality.

—Belloc, (Joseph) Hilaire Pierre

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)

It would follow that 'significant form' was form behind which we catch a sense of ultimate reality.

—Bell, (Arthur) Clive Howard

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

   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)

So writing ismy sole remaining vice.It is an addiction, an illusory release, a presumptuous taming of reality, a way of expressing lightly the unbearable.

—Updike,John Hoyer

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

It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.

—Chesterton, G(ilbert) K(eith)

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.

—Sontag, Susan

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

—Miller, Henry Valentine

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

A naked lunch is natural to us, we eat reality sandwiches. But allegories are so much lettuce. Don't hide the madness.

—Ginsberg, Allen

Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.

—Connor, Sir William Neil pseudonym Cassandra