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"This conflict between right and fact has endured since the origins of society. To bring the duel to an end, to consolidate the pure ideal with the human reality, to make the right peacefully interpenetrate the fact, and the fact the right, this is the work of the wise."
"Reality is a sliding door."
"Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality."
"The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words."
"Reality is, you know, the tip of an iceberg of irrationality that we've managed to drag ourselves up onto for a few panting moments before we slip back into the sea of the unreal."
"If we face the fact, for it is a fact, that there is no arm to cling to, but that we go alone and that our relation is to the world of reality and not only to the world of men and women."
"I cannot disobey something which I do not know and the reality of which I have the right to deny."
"[We assume] that the self is an actual living thing, but it's not. It's a projection which our clever brains create in order to cheat ourselves from the reality of death."
"I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil."
"An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes."
"Today is built on tragedies, which no one wants to face, nightmares to humanities and morally disgraced. Tonight is filled with rage, violence in the air, children bred with ruthlessness because no one at home cares."
"How could you possibly know that no religion can see the whole truth unless you yourself have the superior, comprehensive knowledge of spiritual reality you just claimed non of the religions have?"
"Everything is politics."
"Reality lies far beyond space and time, and I need to know why."
"I was a microscopic life-form, infinitely large, stumbled backstage of its playhouse, caught a nanosecond glance of its own reality and nearly vaporized in shock."
"Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be."
"No other technique for the conduct of life attaches the individual so firmly to reality as laying emphasis on work; for his work at least gives him a secure place in a portion of reality, in the human community."
"In the town of broken dreams the streets are filled with regret, maybe down in lonesome town I can learn to forget."
"Success is when reality catches up to your imagination."
"We should never let reality interfere with our dreams. Reality can't see what we can see."
