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Quote 3133
If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 3112
The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.by: Henry JamesShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 3065
Don't rely too much on labels, for too often they are fablesShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 3054
You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.Showing Quotes on reality
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Quote 3045
You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.Showing Quotes on reality
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Quote 3029
A man always has two reasons for doing anything, a good reason and the real reason.Showing Quotes on reality
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Quote 3027
When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happenShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 3003
Time does not become sacred to us until we have lived itby: John BurroughsShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 2868
I cannot stop thinking that I died before I was born and that at my death I will return to the same stateShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 2828
Sentimentally I am disposed to harmony; but organically I am incapable of a tuneby: Charles LambShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 2823
My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against itby: Charles LambShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 2789
Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysicsby: Karl KrausShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 2785
The real truths are those that can be inventedby: Karl KrausShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 2752
What difference does it make to you what someone else becomes, or says, or does? You do not need to answer for others, only for yourself.by: Thomas a KempisShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 2731
I have never yet been able to perceive how anything can be known for truth by consecutive reasoning - and yet it must beby: John KeatsShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 2707
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated itby: John KeatsShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 2683
Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of lifeShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 2544
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its authorShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 2536
The most wonderful thing about miracles is that they sometimes happenShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 2518
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not triedShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 2495
Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glassby: Anton ChekhovShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 2489
Every man is a volume, if you know how to read himShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 2472
Man's spiritual nature is no dream of theologians to vanish before the light of natural science. It is the grandest reality on earthShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 2365
They that have lived a single day have lived an ageShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 2354
We come too late to say anything which has not been said alreadyShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 2341
The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truthShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 2312
The reality is, all over the country the number of people in the homeless condition continues to grow. It will grow significantly as far as the eye can see. It's near crisis right now. It will certainly get thereby: Robert BrowningShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 2289
But facts are facts and flinch notby: Robert BrowningShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 2265
It is best to be yourself, imperial, plain and trueby: Robert BrowningShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 2189
I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its placeShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 2156
The logic of words should yield to the logic of realitiesShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 2133
Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?by: Joseph ButlerShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 2110
The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: The bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really doesby: William BlakeShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 2094
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.by: William BlakeShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 2086
If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear as it is - infiniteby: William BlakeShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 2068
It is the greatest art of the devil to convince us he does not exist.Showing Quotes on reality
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Quote 2016
A fair request should be followed by the deed in silenceby: Dante AlighieriShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 1904
Let's not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realising itShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 1754
Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperityby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 1727
If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.by: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 1704
Practical politics consists in ignoring factsShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 1694
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidenceShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 1640
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.Showing Quotes on reality
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Quote 1579
Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishesShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 1575
Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.Showing Quotes on reality
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Quote 1563
The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.Showing Quotes on reality
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Quote 1549
I do not see any other way of realizing our hopes about World Organization in five or six days. Even the Almighty took sevenShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 1480
I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now doby: Will RogersShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 1438
Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truthby: John RuskinShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 1436
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.Showing Quotes on reality
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Quote 1361
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.Showing Quotes on reality
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Quote 1358
The love we give away is the only love we keepby: Elbert HubbardShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 1344
A mother who is really a mother is never freeby: Honore de BalzacShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 1213
All things are artificial, for nature is the art of GodShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 1129
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it homeby: John Stuart MillShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 1126
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experiencedby: John KeatsShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 1125
You cannot create experience. You must undergo itby: Albert CamusShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 1116
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwardsShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 1012
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircaseShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 1005
We are near waking when we dream we are dreamingby: NovalisShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 1001
Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meetShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 995
Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his wakingby: Margaret FullerShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 991
I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awakeby: René DescartesShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 979
Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friendShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 943
To describe happiness is to diminish itby: StendhalShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 873
Let us live for the beauty of our own realityby: Charles LambShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 864
Beauty is not caused. It isShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 863
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates themby: David HumeShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 829
Live for today. Multitudes of people have failed to live for today. . . . What they have had within their grasp today they have missed entirely, because only the future has intrigued themShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 827
It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishlyShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 805
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatoryby: Abraham LincolnShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 802
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within usShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 790
The passionate are like men standing on their heads; they see all things the wrong wayby: PlatonShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 693
That's the way the cookie crumblesfrom EnglandShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 656
A friend in need is a friend indeedfrom EnglandShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 652
A picture paints a thousand wordsfrom GermanyShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 644
All that glitters is not goldfrom GermanyShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 640
Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.by: Frédéric BastiatShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 626
Even a single hair casts a shadowby: Francis BaconShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 612
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energyby: VoltaireShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 591
When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.by: Mark TwainShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 567
Ability is nothing without opportunityby: NapoleonShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 566
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practicefrom GermanyShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 519
True life is lived when tiny changes occurby: Leo TolstoiShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 503
Love is an ideal thing, marriage is a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunishedShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 497
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativityby: Albert EinsteinShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 495
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the factsby: Will RogersShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 494
Communism is like prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work.by: Will RogersShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 480
When in doubt tell the truthby: Mark TwainShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 473
I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be uglyShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 470
You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to knowShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 447
My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happenedShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 442
Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.Showing Quotes on reality
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Quote 432
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.Showing Quotes on reality
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Quote 412
Information is not knowledgeby: Albert EinsteinShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 359
Cynic: A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to beShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 342
Words are only painted fire; a book is the fire itself.by: Mark TwainShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 299
They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.by: Edgar Allan PoeShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 261
You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmotherby: Albert EinsteinShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 220
The value of life ist not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them; a man may live long yet very littleShowing Quotes on reality
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