The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.

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

Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity’s belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all.

Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way – everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger.

Some people mistakenly think nature is very nice and benevolent and never betrays.

Reality has a way of intruding. Reality eventually intrudes on everything.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

It I talked about Watergate, I was described as struggling to free myself from the morass. If I did not talk about Watergate, I was accused of being out of touch with reality.

Since God created the world, He also created reality.

If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

Assuming if there’s such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail?

There is no unique picture of reality.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

The ‚I think‘ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‚I breathe‘ which actually does accompany them.

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

Memories are thoughts that arise. They’re not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it’s just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Children, I mean, think of your own childhood, how important the bedtime story was. How important these imaginary experiences were for you. They helped shape reality, and I think human beings wouldn’t be human without narrative fiction.

Reality is a sliding door.

Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time. Sometimes it will be ahead, other times it will be behind. But brand is simply a collective impression some have about a product.

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.

It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can’t do anything with that except do it.

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain’t so.

There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.

An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it’s beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth… Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

All knowledge or form conception is evoked through the medium of the eye, either in response to disturbances directly received on the retina or to their fainter secondary effects and reverberations. Other sense organs can only call forth feelings which have no reality of existence and of which no conception can be formed.

The foolish man conceives the idea of ‚self.‘ The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of ‚self;‘ thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.

Reality simply consists of different points of view.

All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is.

My life as a child did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

I always liked characters that were more grounded in reality.

A reader can never tell if it’s a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you’re reading it, they’re the same. It’s a thimble. It’s in the book.

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

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

Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death’s the other.

The thing about delirium is you think it’s great, but it actually isn’t.

I did used to have nightmares about the idea that when I die, there is a spark of consciousness which basically creates the world. ‚Is the world going to disappear if this spark of consciousness disappears? And how do I know it won’t? How do I know there’s anything there except what I’m conscious of?‘

What if nothing exists and we’re all in somebody’s dream?

Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.

To me, comedy is just twisting reality. It’s commenting or observing or twisting life.

Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

When I am writing, I do not distinguish between the natural and supernatural. Everything seems real. That is my world, you could say.

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.

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.

I noticed words crudely spray-painted upon the wall, perhaps by a young Berliner: ‚This wall will fall. Beliefs become reality.‘ Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way.

It’s possible – you can never know – that the universe exists only for me. If so, it’s sure going well for me, I must admit.

Rastafari not a culture, it’s a reality.