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Jean Baudrillard

The very definition of the real has become: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. . . The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced: that is the hyperreal??? which is entirely in simulat

Rene Descartes

Let us suppose, then, that we are dreaming, and that all these particulars--namely, the opening of the eyes, the motion of the head, the forth- putting of the hands--are merely illusions; and even that we really possess neither an entire body nor hands su

Albert Einstein

It is my conviction that pure mathematical construction enables us to discover the concepts and the laws connecting them, which gives us the key to the understanding of nature ... In a certain sense, therefore, I hold it true that pure thought can grasp

TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

Go, go, go, said the bird: human kind Cannot bear very much reality. Time past and time future What might have been and what has been Point to one end, which is always present.

Carl Gustav Jung

Far from being a material world, this is a psychic world, which allows us to make only indirect and hypothetical inferences about the real nature of matter. The psychic, alone has immediate reality, and this includes all forms of the psychic, even ???unreal

Odilon Redon

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

Hermann Hesse

There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.

Marcel Proust

Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

Victor Daniels

We must learn to tailor our concepts to fit reality, instead of trying to stuff reality into our concepts.

Albert Einstein

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.

Eric Pio

If you don't make your dreams a reality, reality will take away your dreams.

Sir Eric Ashby

The engineer is the key figure in the material progress of the world. It is his engineering that makes a reality of the potential value of science by translating scientific knowledge into tools, resources, energy and labor to bring them into the service of man ... To make contributions of this kind the engineer requires the imagination to visualize the needs of society and to appreciate what is possible as well as the technological and broad social age understanding to bring his vision to reality.

Robert J. Ringer

Reality isn't the way you wish things to be, nor the way they appear to be, but the way they actually are.

Anon.

Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.

Rev. Randall R. McBride, Jr.

Don't dwell on reality it will only keep you from greatness.

Anon.

Cannot find REALITY.SYS...Universe Halted.

Elaine Agather

Attitude is more important than reality.

Margaret Weis

Hope is the denial of reality.

Edith Sitwell

Poetry is the deification of reality.

Philip K. Dick

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

Roger Starr

Reality is the best possible cure for dreams.

Jane Wagner

What is reality, anyway Just a collective hunch.

Ellen Herman

Joel That's the movies, Ed. Try reality. Ed No thanks.

Jules de Gautier

Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.

Barbara Colorose

If you can't solve it, it's not a problem--it's reality.

Albert Einstein

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a persistent one.

Tupac Shakur

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

Melissa Mayer

Reality is but a poor excuse for not having an imagination.

L. J. Suenens

Hope is not a dream but a way of making dreams become reality.

Joseph Conrad

Words, as is well known, are great foes of reality.

Christopher A. Ray

Perception is merely reality filtered through the prism of your soul.

Warren Bennis

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

Lily Tomlin

Reality is a crutch for people who can't handle drugs.

Jessamyn West

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

Sren Aaby Kierkegaard

Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.

Franois Maurice Mitterrand

A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books.

George Bernard Shaw

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

Belva Davis

Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.

Susan Sontag

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.

Jimmy Stewart

I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, Doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it.

Kahlil Gibran

The reality of the other person lies not in what he reveals to you but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather to what he does not say.

Theodor Reik

Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.

Andrew Schneider

You bluffed me I don't like it when people bluff me. It makes me question my perception of reality.

Douglas H. Everett

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality and then there are those who turn one into the other.

George Herbert Walker Bush

My grandkids say, 'Reality Bites.' O.K., but it also challenges and rewards...I believe our best days are yet to come.

Henry Fielding

Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.

Samuel Smiles

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

Jerry Garcia

It's pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There are more things, Lucilius, that frighten us than injure us, and we suffer more in imagination than in reality. - Epistulae ad Lucilium

John W. Gardner

Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.

Warren Bennis

Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.

Anais Nin

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.

Alexis Carrel

Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Do continue to believe that with your feeling and your work you are taking part in the greatest the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values -- that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.

We are shaped by each other. We adjust not to the reality of a world, but to the reality of other thinkers.

The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.

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.

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.

We have art so that we shall not die of reality.

Realism...has no more to do with reality than anything else.

Reality is only just a word.

Reality is something you rise above.

Be as radical as reality.

The best Web sites are better than reality.

I reject your reality and substitute my own!

Reality is an obstacle to hallucination.

Imagination is the reality of the dreamer.

Performance is your reality. Forget everything else.

Humankind cannot stand very much reality.

Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality

Error in REALITY.SYS. Run BIGBANG.EXE (Y/N)

My reality check just bounced.

Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.

I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.

...I'm sorry, Reality is not in service at this time.

A theory must be tempered with reality.

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.

'Reality' should always be in quotes. -- Bucky Fuller

Human kind cannot bear much reality.

I have a firm grip on reality. Now I can strangle it.

Who stopped payment on my reality check?

The trouble with reality is there's no background music.

Okay, who put a stop payment on my reality check?

We judge reality by the responses of our senses.

An artist does not fake reality--he *stylizes* it.

Virtual Reality is like mainlining television.

* REALITY.SYS Corrupted: Re-boot universe? (Y/N)

Human beings cannot stand too much reality.

Paranoia is a finer scale of reality.

Corrupt REALITY.SYS: Reboot Universe (Y/n)?

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

Reality is that which refuses to go away when I stop believing in it.

DO NOT ADJUST YOUR MIND - the fault is with reality

DO NOT ADJUST YOUR MIND - the fault is with reality.

Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it.

The ultimate security is your understanding of reality.

Reality is for people who can't handle drugs.

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

Without an adequate theory, reality is irrelevant.

Sorry, the virtual reality check bounced.

Everything is a dangerous drug except reality, which is unendurable.

Reality continues to ruin my life.

But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.