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Size is not a reality, but a construct of the mind; and space a construct to contain constructs. -- Robert Anton Wilson
Our relationship to reality and to our experience is all based upon the ideas in our mind that we're always trying to live up to. -- Andrew Cohen
I must begin by saying something about the old Germany. That Germany, too, suffered from superficial judgment, because appearances and reality were not always kept apart in people's minds. -- Gustav Stresemann
To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality. -- Ayn Rand
It's one of the things that looks good written down, but the reality is that you think about the pieces you're doing and try to bear in mind everyone in the audience. -- Matthew Bourne
By the time I land in Iowa, I feel like my mind is more open to the reality of being back home and focusing on the problems of the people in my district. -- Bruce Braley
First have being in your mind. Make real in your mind then bring that being into reality. The genius is he who sees what is not yet and causes it to come to be. -- Peter Nivio Zarlenga
Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game - and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams. -- Jacques Barzun
The mind, whatever else it is, is a constant of everyone's experience, and, in more ways than we know, the creator of the reality that we live within... Nothing is more essential to us. -- Marilynne Robinson
Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives. -- Robert Collier
In the world of reality the more beautiful a work of art, the longer, we may be sure, was the time required to make it, and the greater the number of different minds which assisted in its development. -- Lafcadio Hearn
Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live! -- Bob Marley
Concentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the universal, the Reality. This Reality cannot be new. It must exist even now, and it does exist. -- Ramana Maharshi
For me, the first fact of human existence is the human body. But if you embrace the reality of the human body, you embrace mortality, and that is a very difficult thing for anything to do because the self-conscious mind cannot imagine non-existence. It's impossible to do. -- David Cronenberg
All the analysis of infinite reality which the finite human mind can conduct rests on the tacit assumption that only a finite portion of this reality constitutes the object of scientific investigation, and that only it is 'important' in the sense of being 'worthy of being known.' -- Max Weber
There are more than 300,000 families in the Gulf region that lost their homes and are waiting for peace of mind. The hurricane exposed the sad reality of poverty in America. We saw, in all its horrific detail, the vulnerabilities of living in inadequate housing and the heartbreak of losing one's home. -- Harry Connick, Jr.
The reality is the world is a really, really big place, and there's a lot of people running around with a lot on their mind. And you really have to figure out how to build a company that can put on a message that can actually reach people and have an impact globally. -- Marc Andreesen
Growing up, I was picked on a bit; I was pretty heavy-set, and then I was a theater kid. I just felt unpopular and uncool, so I think in my mind I had this idea of fame and being popular and how nice that would be. The reality of it is sometimes it's not nice. -- Jack Falahee
To act: that is what the writer would like to be able to do, above all. To act, rather than to bear witness. To write, imagine, and dream in such a way that his words and inventions and dreams will have an impact upon reality, will change people's minds and hearts, will prepare the way for a better world. -- J. M. G. Le Clezio
Your mind can't always tell the difference between pretend and reality if you pretend too long; or if you go too deep and really believe in what you're doing. If you're going to be that kind of actor and go way out there, it's really important to take care of yourself and have a safe place, whatever that is. -- Annabella Sciorra
Reality is mind-made. -- Deepak Chopra
Divine mind is the one and only reality. -- Charles Fillmore
Reality is the dream for the subconscious mind. -- Debasish Mridha
Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. -- George Orwell
Always mind the distance between your dreams and your reality. -- ZoÃ« Heller
Fantasy stays in the mind. Reality stays in the heart. -- Rizi Dame C. Briz
Do not adjust your mind, the fault is in reality. -- R. D. Laing
The mind is the reality. You are what you think. -- Alfred Bester
When Reality is a prison, Your mind can set you free. -- Zack Snyder
Everything is created twice, first in the mind and then in reality. -- Robin Sharma
A crafter's vision never completely survives the journey from mind to reality. -- Tag Cavello
The dominating thoughts of my mind... will transform themselves into physical reality -- Napoleon Hill
Suffering is basically the mind's refusal to accept reality as it is. -- Marcus Thomas
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind. -- Bruce Lee
Everything is created twice, first in the mind and then in reality. -- Robin Sharma
Love is reality, fear is an illusory concept created in your mind. -- Marcus Thomas
Belief is the mother of reality. Excellence is a state of mind. -- Terry Orlick
In reality, our mind is the creator of all the things we experience. -- Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
We control matter because we control the mind. Reality is inside the skull. -- George Orwell
Your thoughts create your reality. Your mind is more powerful than you know. -- Neale Donald Walsch
Nothing is any particular way. It's your state of mind that creates reality. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality. -- Thomas Aquinas
All the mind's activity is easy if it is not subjected to reality. -- Marcel Proust
We should always bear in mind that numbers represent a simplification of reality. -- Kenneth E. Boulding
The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom. -- Margaret Drabble
In your mind you are cheating somebody, but in reality you are cheating yourself. -- Cyc Jouzy
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality. -- Edgar Allan Poe
In order to experience the Ultimate Reality you have to be out of your mind. -- Neale Donald Walsch
The leading edge of reality is mind, and mind is the primary substratum of being. -- Terence McKenna
Reality is created by the mind, we can change our reality by changing our mind. -- Plato
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Really, I protest-what is left for the satirical mind to invent when reality so surpasses it? -- Jude Morgan
Imagination is reality in one's mind waiting to come out at right time with enough efforts. -- Prerak Trivedi
The hardest thing about reality is returning to it after an hour inside your child's mind. -- Robert Breault
... the life of the mind is reality, and love without romantic illumination is a spiritless matter. -- Ellen Glasgow
Beauty begins in the eyes of the beholder; Reality ends in the mind of the observer. -- Joey Lawsin
When your mind is set in meditative equipoise, you can see reality exactly as it is -- Gautama Buddha
In my opinion, there is no aspect of reality beyond the reach of the human mind. -- Stephen Hawking
God is the mind that imagines physical reality. We are each like a cell in that mind. -- Peter Shepherd
I can't escape reality but my mind can twist it for me. Therefore, mind can manipulate things. -- Aser Alas Jr.
Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality. -- Immanuel Kant
It's my belief that sanity lies in realizing that reality is not exactly what we had in mind. -- Roy Blount, Jr.
Part of growing up is making sure your sense of reality isn't entirely grounded in your own mind. -- David Levithan
Wishful thinking does wonders for a wishful mind; but in the end, reality always has the final say. -- Steve Maraboli
It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality. -- Rick Riordan
First reach your target in your mind, then reaching your target in reality will just be a formality! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality. -- Earl Nightingale
How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality. -- Norman Douglas
The human mind had a remarkable ability both to discount what it sees and make reality conform to expectation. -- Cinda Williams Chima
A truly open mind means forcing our imaginations to conform to the evidence of reality, and not vice versa. -- Lawrence M. Krauss
In my heart I know the truth, but my mind cannot accept the reality of what this all means. -- Loung Ung
I was taught by my grandfather that anything that your mind can conceive, you can have. It's a reality. -- Lenny Kravitz
Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality. -- Bruce Lee
Art gives to you a new conception of reality, opens your mind, opens your heart, opens your desire of action. -- Alejandro Jodorowsky
Most mistakes in philosophy and logic occur because the human mind is apt to take the symbol for the reality. -- Albert Einstein
The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer. -- John Steinbeck
Dreams are reality for the subconscious mind, but wisdom is the perception of knowledge. Wisdom is the internalization of knowledge. -- Debasish Mridha
All creative work has its greatest reality while it is still in a man's mind, before he begins to execute it. -- John Prebble
It is my opinion that the isolated mind loses its purchase on reality all too easily and becomes prone to fantasy. -- Frank Tallis
Your mind is your only judge of truth-and if others dissent from your verdict, reality is the court of final appeal. -- John Galt
The meditative mind sees disagreeable or agreeable things with equanimity, patience, and good-will. Transcendent knowledge is seeing reality in utter simplicity. (146) -- Jean-Yves Leloup
The mind may find unique ways to express what it conceives of reality, but reality remains unchanged by the mind's efforts. -- David Haas
Open your mind to the infinite possibilities that exist for you; then create within your reality the things that you desire. -- Steven Redhead
Your mind doesn't know the difference between reality and fantasy. Your mindacts on what you feed it. Feed it good thoughts. -- Zig Ziglar
The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye. -- Shana Alexander
The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality. -- Jean Piaget
Everything is perception. A hallucination is a perception of a certain reality. It is a perception of a certain state of mind. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
In reality, it's much easier not to smoke or eat chocolate than to do so. It's your mind that convinces you otherwise. -- Wayne Dyer
I have a hyper-active imagination, my mind tends to jump around a little, and I have some trouble between fantasy and reality. -- Woody Allen
When you're overwhelmed by your emotion, you listen less and you judge more. This is also the reality of the dogmatic mind. -- Tariq Ramadan
There is an objective reality in which my body and mind are one. But I am not here and never have been. -- Sarah Kane
The subconscious mind is shielding or showing numerous potential paths, based on what it determines would represent a consistent reality for you. -- Kevin Michel
The goings-on in Mind does not depend on what exist in reality. Rather, it depends on what you believe what exists in reality. -- Elmar Hussein
Birth is okay and death is okay, if we know that they are only concepts in our mind. Reality transcends both birth and death. -- Thich Nhat Hanh
Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality. -- John Lennon
Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources, taking the best from every study, Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of the ages. -- Ernest Holmes
Words become meaningless, the mind cuts itself off from reality for a little while, a necessary breathing space until one is ready to cope. -- Jack Higgins
Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and reality in our mind. -- Magdalena Abakanowicz
Birth is okay and death is okay, if we know that they are only concepts in our mind. Reality transcends both birth and death. -- Thich Nhat Hanh
An attempt to gain a value by deceiving the mind of others is an act of raising your victims to a position higher than reality. -- John Galt
Command by instinct is swifter, subtler, deeper, more accurate, more in touch with reality than command by conscious mind. The discovery takes one's breath away. -- Michael Novak
There are other relations besides reality, which the mind is capable of grasping and which also are primary, like chance, illusion, the fantastic, the dream. -- Louis Aragon
Hence, viper thoughts, that coil around my mind,Reality's dark dream!I turn from you, and listen to the wind,Which long has raved unnoticed. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The sole "property" of matter with whose recognition philosophical materialism is bound up is the property of being an objective reality, of existing outside the mind. -- Vladimir Lenin
Psychedelic drugs undoubtedly open the doors to the mind's panopticon, but what we see in the mental mirrors are mere distortions of reality, not reality itself. -- Georg Feuerstein
When we recognize that the seemingly object nature of reality is nothing different than the subject nature of mind, which is rigpa, it is called enlightenment. -- Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
Well, when you're relaxed, your mind takes you to the whole reality. There's no such thing as time when you're really relaxed. That's why meditation works. -- Shirley MacLaine
The imaginative is produced by the human mind as it tries to respond to something greater than itself, struggling to find images adequate to the reality. -- Alister E. McGrath
The fear is not real, Dil Bahadur; it is only in your mind, like all other things. Our thoughts form what we believe to be reality. -- Isabel Allende
Whatever I hold in my mind tends to manifest itself in my life. What we believe and assume creates most of our reality and our experience. -- David Emerald Womeldorff
I'm a tek addict myself. No matter where you are, people are looking for something to tear them away from reality, challenge their state of mind. -- Greg Evigan
Doth the Reality of sensible things consist in being perceived? or, is it something distinct from their being perceived, and that bears no relation to the mind? -- George Berkeley
Your mind creates your reality. If you expect nothing, you open up the universe to give you options. If you expect the worst, you usually get it. -- James Patterson
Oftentimes, people stay where they are in life simply because of fear. But do you know that fear isn't reality? It's only a thought in your mind. -- Victoria Osteen
You visualize yourself as the person you want to be. You strive to make the ideal in your mind become a reality on the canvas of Time. -- Wilferd Peterson
If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both. -- Bodhidharma
The real tight interface is between the book and the reader-the world of the book is plugged right into your brain, never mind the [virtual reality] bodysuit. -- Bill McKibben
If you keep examining your mind, you'll come to see that thoughts of who you are and how it all is are creating the reality you're experiencing. -- Ram Dass
Animism is a monist metaphysical stance, based upon the idea that mind and matter are not distinct and separate substances but an integrated reality, rooted in nature. -- Emma Restall Orr
I am after painting reality impressed on the mind so hard that it returns as a dream, but I am not after painting dreams as such, or fantasy. -- George Tooker

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