Favorite Quotations
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Reality
Who You Are When No One's Looking
We need to see others as they really are. Are we facing real enemies-- or is it our own inner disturbances we see? Are we making true friends, or just being self-serving? ~ Helen Palmer Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them. ~ Jules Verne Reality is something you rise above. ~ Liza Minnelli A vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance. ~ Benedict De Spinoza Any mental activity is easy if it need not take reality into account. ~ Marcel Proust Everything is self-evident. ~ René Descartes If your work is going to draw from life, you'd better work very hard to keep up with reality. ~ Lawrence Kasdan It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality. ~ Virginia Woolf Reality is whatever refuses to go away when I stop believing in it. ~ Philip K. Dick 1 | 2
"The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see." ~ Ayn Rand