Reality confronts man with a great many "musts," but all of them are conditional; the formula of realistic necessity is: read more

Reality confronts man with a great many "musts," but all of them are conditional; the formula of realistic necessity is: "You must, if " and the "if" stands for man's choice

What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures read more

What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.

Art must take reality by surprise.

Art must take reality by surprise.

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that read more

The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.

A cause a day keeps reality away.

A cause a day keeps reality away.

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new read more

There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.