R Quotes
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“Reality has no need to be formally rational. It is in thb sense beyond reason and prescribes a rule to reason. Reason is in a way subordinate to reality, not the other way about. Reality is subordinate to nothing. It is pre-eminent. It is not for reason to take a decision in the matter. Reason must follow, not lead.”
“Reality has no security and that is its beauty. Life has no security and that is its beauty. Because there is no security, there is adventure. Because the future is unknown, nobody knows what is going to happen the next moment. That's why there is challenge, growth, adventure. If you miss adventure, you miss all. If your life is not that of an adventure, of a search into the unknown, then you are living in vain.”
“Reality has no sympathy.”
“Reality has taught us that no woman can build an honest life without sacrificing something along the way. Deciding what will be sacrificed is not easy.”
“reality has too many heads”
Source: Lyrics, 1962-2001
“Reality hasn't really intervened in my mother's life since the seventies.”
“Reality Hunger is more than thought-provoking; it's one of the most beautiful books I've read in a long time.”
“Reality. I am stuck. I am hostage to my own destination.
When I close my eyes, my wings can take me anywhere in the universe. I abandon myself and I soar. Where only the most profound and intense souls can withstand the sick atmospheres.”
“Reality in itself is neither permanent nor impermanent; it cannot be categorized. But when one tries to hold on to it, change is everywhere apparent, since, like one's own shadow, the faster one pursues it, the faster it flees.”
“Reality in our century is not something to be faced.”
Source: The Collected Edition: Our man in Havana
“Reality in strong doses frightens.”
Source: The Novels and Poems of Victor Marie Hugo
“Reality includes both the past and the future, but existence includes only the present and is totally dependent on the reality of past and future universes. Without them there is no existence now.”
Source: Parallel Universes
“Reality is a challenge.”
“Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor.”
Source: Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose
“Reality is a complex phenomenon, filled with dimensions, not the least of which are two that Christians affirm and understand: the physical and the spiritual. We are invited by Cervantes to enter into Don Quixote's imaginary world and reflect on these players. We are to ignore no points of view: neither the idealism of Don Quixote nor the realism/literalism of Sancho Panza. The point that comes across is this: we must not have a reductionist attitude toward reality.”
“Reality is a concept that depends largely upon where you point your face.”
Source: Point Your Face at This: Drawings
“Reality is a construct. You are what you think you are.”
“Reality is a ‘controlled hallucination’ - your mind serves up a pre‑filtered version of the world.”
Source: The Council of Gods
“Reality is a conventional narrative that secures some order, but it seems that it is not fair and it does not always benefit the good but the evil.”
Source: Reality Is Just A Possible Fantasy
“Reality is a cover up method of pretending and in the backstage repeating all the faults of human history: torture, murders, inequality, injustice, unfairness. They make you hail them, condemn their opponents and then they kill you.”
Source: Reality Is Just A Possible Fantasy
“Reality is a creation of our excesses.”
Source: A short history of decay
“Reality is a cruel and unintuitive place with frustrating gameplay mechanics.
(Press X to thanklessly toil your life away)”
“Reality is a crutch for people who can't handle science fiction.”
“Reality is a dance, and this dance is not predictable or knowable. There is no prescribed fate. Reality is a live experiment. There’s no reverse, pause, or forward—only the present moment’s flux. There seems to be a spiral rhythm and an inner order, even if our limited understandings do not reveal them completely to us.”
Source: Collapse: Navigating Civilization's Predicaments With Wisdom and Courage
“Reality is a dirty word for me, I know it isn't for most people, but I am not interested. There's too much of it about.”
“Reality is a dream that someone was brave enough to conquer.”
“Reality is a formless lure, And only when we know this Do we dare to be unreal.”
Source: Advice: A Book of Poems
“Reality is a fragile thing.”
“Reality is a funny thing. There are no defenses against it except madness.”
Source: Listen to the Silence
“Reality is a genre that seems to be here to stay. I don't know how many of the new shows will last, but the more competition you have, the harder that pie is to slice up.”
“Reality is a hallucination shared by most sane men.”
“Reality is a harsh mistress. She demands our honesty. She demands our work. She demands that we give up comforts, that we let ourselves feel pain, that we accept how small we are and how little control we have over our lives. And she demands that we make her our top priority. But she is more beautiful, and more powerful, and more surprising, and more fascinating, and more endlessly rewarding, than anything we could ever make up about her.”
“Reality is a hellova drug. Perception is stronger and requires a prescription.”
Source: SOLAR RAIN
“Reality is a lovely place, but I wouldn't want to live there.”
“Reality is a loyal dog — it follows the voice you use.
(The Dog of Matter)”
Source: Joy Is the Key and You Are the Door
“Reality is a magic lady, sometimes very mysterious. To me she is very passionate. She is real not only when she is awake, walking down the streets, but also at night when she is dreaming or when she is having nightmares. When I am writing, I am always paying tribute to her - to that lady called Reality.”
“Reality is a myth. We define things in terms we know.”
Source: Rebel Hearts
“Reality is a narrow little house which becomes a prison to those who can't get out of it.”
“Reality is a powerful selection pressure. A hominid that soothed itself by believing that a lion was a turtle or that eating sand would nourish its body would be outreproduced by its reality-based rivals.”
Source: Rationality
“Reality is a powerful solvent.”
“Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will.”
“Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest - thought, action - is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go.”
Source: This Business of Living
“Reality is a projection of consciousness, so if you believe - more than just think - but believe, subliminally, that something is true, it will become true because you will make micro-decisions based on the reality that you have faith in.”
“Reality is a projection of your thoughts or the things you habitually think about.”
“Reality is a projection of your thoughts or the things you habitually think about. Your entire life and everything in it is a result of your belief system coupled with your thoughts. The feelings and emotions you have cement this in your mind, and the illusion of all of this combined is what you see as your reality on a moment-to-moment and day-to-day basis.”
Source: How to Get Everything You Can Imagine: Volume 1: How Mind Power Works
“Reality is a question of perspective.”
Source: Midnight's Children
“Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems - but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems more and more incredible.”
Source: Midnight's Children
“Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.”
Source: Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
“Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down, we don't move; today is today, always is today.”
Source: Selected poems
“Reality is a state of mind. To the banker, the money in his ledger book is all very real, though he doesn't actually see it or touch it. But to the Brahma, it simply doesn't exist the way the air and the earth, pain and loss do. To him, the banker's reality is folly. To the banker, the Brahma's ideas are as inconsequential as dust.”
Source: The Gemma Doyle Trilogy