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.

Reality is an illusion that occurs due to lack of alcohol

Reality is an illusion that occurs due to lack of alcohol

Reality is determined not by what scientists or anyone else says or believes but by what the evidence reveals to read more

Reality is determined not by what scientists or anyone else says or believes but by what the evidence reveals to us

Realism... has no more to do with reality than anything else.

Realism... has no more to do with reality than anything else.

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.

If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.

If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.

My greatest enemy is reality. I have fought it successfully for thirty years.

My greatest enemy is reality. I have fought it successfully for thirty years.

A theory must be tempered with reality.

A theory must be tempered with reality.

Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems read more

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.