Quotes about "reality"

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Sell also: realism, realness, world

Definitions and meanings of word "reality"

• Noun: all of your experiences that determine how things appear to you; examples: "his world was shattered", "we live in different worlds", "for them demons were as much a part of reality as trees were"

• Noun: the state of being actual or real; example: "the reality of his situation slowly dawned on him"

• Noun: the state of the world as it really is rather than as you might want it to be; example: "businessmen have to face harsh realities"

• Noun: the quality possessed by something that is real

Featured authors with quotes containing word "reality"

Martin Luther King, Jr.
7 quotes about reality
American Leader, Clergyman, Activist
Tuesday 15 January 1929 - Thursday 4 April 1968
Robert Lanza
6 quotes about reality
American Scientist
Born Saturday 11 February 1956
Friedrich Durrenmatt
3 quotes about reality
Swiss Author
Wednesday 5 January 1921 - Friday 14 December 1990
Keith Miller
5 quotes about reality
American Author
Born Tuesday 19 April 1927
Manuel Puig
5 quotes about reality
Argentinian Author
Wednesday 28 December 1932 - Sunday 22 July 1990
Friedrich Nietzsche
4 quotes about reality
German Philosopher, Critic, Poet, Composer
Tuesday 15 October 1844 - Saturday 25 August 1900
Andrzej Wajda
5 quotes about reality
Polish Director
Saturday 6 March 1926 - Sunday 9 October 2016
Liza Minnelli
3 quotes about reality
American Actress, Director
Born Tuesday 12 March 1946
Philip K. Dick
4 quotes about reality
American Writer, Novelist
Friday 2 March 1928 - Tuesday 2 March 1982
John Polkinghorne
3 quotes about reality
British Writer, Physicist, Theologian
Born Thursday 16 October 1930
Kenneth Burke
one quote about reality
American Philosopher
Wednesday 5 May 1897 - Friday 19 November 1993
Harold S. Geneen
4 quotes about reality
British Businessman
1910 - 1997

Men seek for vocabularies that are reflections of reality. To this end, they must develop vocabularies that are selections of reality. And any selection of reality must, in certain circumstances, function as a deflection of reality.

Kenneth Burke

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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.

Kenneth Burke

Words: use, mind, study, reality, wont, understand, either, using, both
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Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality.

Kenneth Burke

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The park achieved a kind of reality. Like these virtual reality games the children are playing with. I told them we were doing this 40 years ago! Disneyland is virtual reality.

Kenneth Burke

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While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.

Kenneth Burke

Words: while, recognize, necessity, basis, observed, reality, true, art, lies, felt
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Nevertheless, all of us who work in quantum physics believe in the reality of a quantum world, and the reality of quantum entities like protons and electrons.

Kenneth Burke

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The belief that one's own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions.

Kenneth Burke

Words: belief, ones, own, view, reality, dangerous, all, delusions
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My relationship to reality has been so utterly skewed for so long that I don't even notice it any more. It's just my reality.

Kenneth Burke

Words: relationship, reality, utterly, skewed, long, notice, any, more, just
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I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible.

Kenneth Burke

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Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.

Kenneth Burke

Words: change, reality, let, eyes, see
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The biggest crime in Nabokov's 'Lolita' is imposing your own dream upon someone else's reality. Humbert Humbert is blind. He doesn't see Lolita's reality. He doesn't see that Lolita should leave. He only sees Lolita as an extension of his own obsession. This is what a totalitarian state does.

Kenneth Burke

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Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality.

Kenneth Burke

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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.

Kenneth Burke

Words: far, laws, mathematics, refer, reality, certain
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In order to more fully understand this reality, we must take into account other dimensions of a broader reality.

Kenneth Burke

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Mother Nature comes up against reality, and the reality is that the system doesn't work.

Kenneth Burke

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With photography a new language has been created. Now for the first time it is possible to express reality by reality. We can look at an impression as long as we wish, we can delve into it and, so to speak, renew past experiences at will.

Kenneth Burke

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Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out there, but the stuff inside your head. It's going to be commercial and nasty at the same time.

Kenneth Burke

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I don't like dreams or reality. I like when dreams become reality because that is my life.

Kenneth Burke

Words: dreams, reality, become, life
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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Kenneth Burke

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Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.

Kenneth Burke

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