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Reality Quotes

"Dreams are lovely. But they are just dreams. Fleeting, ephemeral, pretty. But dreams do not come true just because you dream them. It's hard work that makes things happen. It's hard work that creates change"
Shonda Rhimes
"We suffer more often in imagination than in reality"
Seneca
"You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you"
Ray Bradbury
"The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it"
Neil deGrasse Tyson
"A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
"When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?"
Miguel de Cervantes
"The world is full of contradictions. We can only confront them if we can face up to them"
Mario Vargas Llosa
"People live their lives bound by what they accept as correct and true"
Jose Saramago
"We have confused the real and the extraordinary to the point where we no longer know which is which"
Jose Saramago
"When we say we know what we are talking about, we mean that we know what we think about something, rather than knowing the facts"
Ian McEwan
"There is no truth Only perception"
Gustave Flaubert
"Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond."
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream"
Edgar Allan Poe
"I think there's a vague sense out there that movies are becoming more and more unreal. I know I've felt it."
Christopher Nolan
"As we grow older we lose illusons but gain experience and understanding."
Helen Keller
"The way to happiness lies neither in protection from difficulty nor in escape from reality"
Mihály Csíkszentmihályi
"We can only have a coherent conception of reality—our conscious experience of it, that is—if we pay attention to its contents one by one, moment by moment"
Mihály Csíkszentmihályi
"Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth."
Jean Paul Sartre
"The past, present and future are only illusions, even if stubborn ones."
Stephen Hawking
"Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see."
John Lennon