I’m really very sorry for you all, but it’s an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatrical performances.

Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.

You need to aim beyond what you are capable of. You must develop a complete disregard for where your abilities end. Try to do things that you’re incapable of… If you think you’re incapable of...

I feel sorry for people who maintain relationships and friendships detrimental to their mental health. Everyone is guilty of it at one time or another- but the idea is to strive to be your best;...

The reality is, I’ve started multiple companies, so actually I’m probably more of a product/creative person than I am sales. Although I can do both.

I think it is important to make sure that I have my real life as well, because Hollywood can certainly seem like an alternate reality sometimes.

What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed? And what if, in your dream, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if, when you...

Words are easy to say, but emotions betray the best intentions.

If you argue with reality, you will only cause yourself pain. However if you accept reality and build on it, the things you create will be durable, true, and healing.

I know you’re scared, Letti, but sweetheart…you haven’t seen anything yet. You’ve not known true fear…

To be a futurist, in pursuit of improving reality, is not to have your face continually turned upstream, waiting for the future to come. To improve reality is to clearly see where you are, and...

When you translate a dream into reality, it’s never a full implementation. It is easier to dream than to do.

Like” and “like” and “like”–but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing?

The reality shows are getting worse and worse. They’re out of control and have been for some time.

Of course the theologians fought the facts found by the geologists, the scientists, and sought to sustain the sacred Scriptures. They mistook the bones of the mastodon for those of human beings, and by them...

I lived a normal life for a number of years. I had kids. I lived up on a farm in Gloucestershire in rural England, and just kind of got back to reality again.

The worst fear of the race yes, the world suddenly transformed into a senseless nightmare, horrible dissolution of things. Nothing compares, even oblivion is a sweet dream. You understand why, of course. Why this peculiar...

I remember, when I was about ten years old, working out that I would be thirty-six in the year 2000. It seemed so far away, so old, so unreal. And here I am, a fucked,...

A man breaking his journey between one place and another at a third place of no name, character, population or significance, sees a unicorn cross his path and disappear. That in itself is startling, but...

It’s funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen.

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

The man who is contented to be only himself, and therefore less a self, is in prison. My own eyes are not enough for me, I will see through those of others. Reality, even seen...

NASA had to adjust to that cruel reality.

An innocent mind is a rarity. Society corrupts us all, even if only a little.

The world’ is man’s experience as it appears to, and is moulded by, his ego. It is that less abundant life, which is lived according to the dictates of the insulated self. It is nature...

The most risky liability of your life is ‘the unspoken truth’.

While he wanted to teach me what he knew, I wanted him to see what it all looked like for me—perhaps love is a process of finding a common vision of reality.

How much of what is there do you allow yourself to see?

It takes drive and focus to move from potential to reality.

Yes, that’s how it was then, that part there we called ‘France’”. I was filled with the deep affection of nostalgia- and then I opened my eyes.

Superior poets say what they really feel. Mediocre poets say what they decide to feel. Inferior poets say what they think they should feel.

The liturgy of the Eucharist is best understood as a journey or procession. It is the journey of the Church into the dimension of the Kingdom. We use the word ‘dimension’ because it seems the...

The art of meditation is a way of getting into touch with reality, and the reason for it is that most civilized people are out of touch with reality because they confuse the world as...

Robinson Crusoe, the first capitalist hero, is a self-made man who accepts objective reality and then fashions it to his needs through the work ethic, common sense, resilience, technology, and, if need be, racism and...

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Without God, reality is madness. Reason will tell you so. You either madly trust in God, or you trust in a world gone mad without him.

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

Faculty X is simply that latent power in human beings possess to reach beyond the present. After all, we know perfectly well that the past is as real as the present, and that New York...

Music and art and culture is escapism, and escapism sometimes is healthy for people to get away from reality. The problem is when they stay there.

Life is tough, then you die.

You can lose a friend in springtime easier than any other season if you’re too curious.

You live here. Doesn’t that make it real enough?

We can make our own plans and judge them by our narrow expectations, or we can experience life as the boundless reality of the One who created it.

I don’t watch reality TV. I’m cool.

The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.

You are here on earth to unearth who on earth you are.

In all reality we haven’t talked about it at all. It’s a neat goal, and after it is accomplished it will be nice to talk about it for a while, but we’re more focused on...

In my dream I was a seal, and I made love to a seagull. Then I got eaten by a shark, because that’s just the way life is. Some fish gets jealous over a bird,...

I didn’t know who I was any longer, so I just was.

We all are beautiful, let’s not pretend to be ugly.