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Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Reality, n. The dream of a mad philosopher. That which would remain in the cupel if one should assay a phantom. The nucleus of a vacuum.
AMBROSE BIERCE, The Devil's Dictionary
The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality. Reality is above all else a variable. With a firm enough commitment, you can sometimes create a reality which did not exist before.
MARGARET HALSEY, No Laughing Matter
Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems—but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems incredible.
SALMAN RUSHDIE, Midnight's Children
Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.
SALMAN RUSHDIE, Midnight's Children
The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because it's only intangibles, ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die.
If you try hard enough, you can bend the spoon; you can shift reality.
CHRISTOPHER MELONI, Men's Health, Dec. 2005
One of the definitions of sanity, itself, is the ability to tell real from unreal. Shall we need a new definition?
ALVIN TOFFLER, Future Shock
- Reality is a formless lure,
- And only when we know this
- Do we dare to be unreal.
MAXWELL BODENHEIM, "Dialogue Between a Past and Present Poet"
Science is the process of trying to understand the nature of reality. And it's a fundamental of science that we believe reality exists, instead of having it be a human construct or all a matter of relative point of view. There isn't another side of the story in science. There are the right and wrong answers, and you do a better or worse job of understanding that reality, but we do believe reality is there. That's fundamental to what we're doing.
LUCY JONES, Newsweek, Oct. 15, 2007
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