Okay, who put a “stop payment” on my reality check? – Author Unknown
Listening to both sides of a story will convince you that there is more to a story than both sides. – Frank Tyger
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their “agreement,” as falsity means their disagreement, with “reality.” – William James
It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought. – John Kenneth Galbraith
Belief in God? An afterlife? I believe in rock: this apodictic rock beneath my feet. – Edward Abbey
The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it. – Francis Bacon
The formula “two and two make five” is not without its attractions. – Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from the Underground, 1864
If I choose abstraction over reality, it is because I find it the lesser chaos. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Reality is a palette that humans paint on to let themselves sleep better at night. – Author Unknown
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. – Tom Robbins
I believe in a real, physical world. I figure if the world existed only in my mind, it would pay more attention to me. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there. – E.H. Gombrich, Art and Illusion, 1960
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. – Jules de Gaultier
Everything you can imagine is real. – Pablo Picasso
What is reality but the dreamworld of a limited imagination. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Cloquet hated reality but realized it was still the only place to get a good steak. – Woody Allen
Seems like nothing ever brings you back to reality that makes you want to stay there. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Illusion is the first of all pleasures. – Voltaire
To accept reality is only to encourage it. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Be careful not to drown in a mirage. – Terri Guillemets
