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.

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.

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

A cause a day keeps reality away.

A cause a day keeps reality away.

Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are read more

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.

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.

A theory must be tempered with reality.

A theory must be tempered with reality.

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.