Reality

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. – Albert Einstein

You can accept reality without believing every yarn it spins. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability. – Samuel Johnson

Reality is always the dowdy sister to Fancy. – Dr. Idel Dreimer, www.lumpenbangenpiano.com

Most passport pictures are good likenesses, and it is time we faced it. – Katharine Brush

There is an objective reality out there, but we view it through the spectacles of our beliefs, attitudes, and values. – David G. Myers, Social Psychology

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces. – Sigmund Freud

How do we know that the sky is not green and we are all colour-blind? – Author Unknown

There are no facts, only interpretations. – Friedrich Nietzsche

What was once called the objective world is a sort of Rorschach ink blot, into which each culture, each system of science and religion, each type of personality, reads a meaning only remotely derived from the shape and color of the blot itself. – Lewis Mumford, “Orientation to Life,” The Conduct of Life, 1951

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination. – John Lennon

Humankind cannot bear very much reality. – T.S. Eliot

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion. – Democritus

What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable. – Louise Nevelson

Few people have the imagination for reality. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, but to imagine your facts is another. – John Burroughs

I have a very firm grasp on reality! I can reach out and strangle it any time! – Author Unknown

Reality is not always probable, or likely. – Jorge Luis Borges

Question reality, especially if it contradicts the evidence of your hopes and dreams. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

What happens to the wide-eyed observer when the window between reality and unreality breaks and the glass begins to fly? – Author Unknown