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Some people have a difficult time facing truth and reality. They prefer to live in a make-believe world, pretending that certain things aren't happening. -- Joyce Meyer
It is obvious that [leftists] are not cool-headed logicians systematically analyzing the foundations of knowledge. They are deeply involved emotionally in their attack on truth and reality. -- Theodore Kaczynski
In art, truth and reality begin when one no longer understands what one is doing or what one knows, and when there remains an energy that is all the stronger for being constrained, controlled and compressed. -- Henri Matisse
One advantage of the discovery of the Photographic Art will be, that it will enable us to introduce into our pictures a multitude of minute details which add to the truth and reality of the representation, but which no artist would take the trouble to faithfully copy from nature. -- Henry Fox Talbot
There is a slovenly disrespect for truth and reality that has infected and cross-infected the arts; the values of entertainment are relentlessly in the ascendant, to the extent that it becomes virtually impossible to write a naturalistic fictional sentence without feeling that the fabric of that sentence is already compromised. -- Rachel Cusk
When the mind's eye rests on objects illuminated by truth and reality, it understands and comprehends them, and functions intelligently; but when it turns to the twilight world of change and decay, it can only form opinions, its vision is confused and its beliefs shifting, and it seems to lack intelligence. -- Plato
As TV embedded itself into the national consciousness, it got us to remember how more than just the facts transmits truth and reality - and in fun, engaging ways. TV also showed us how telling our stories, confronting our own truths makes us and the people with whom we're sharing feel less lonely and alienated. -- Lee Gutkind
In every system of theology, therefore, there is a chapter De libero arbitrio. This is a question which every theologian finds in his path, and which he must dispose of; and on the manner in which it is determined depends his theology, and of course his religion, so far as his theology is to him a truth and reality -- Charles Hodge
The courage we need is not the fortitude to be obedient in the service of an unjust war, to help conceal lies, to do our job for a boss who has usurped power and is acting as an outlaw government. It is the courage at last to face honestly the truth and reality of what we are doing in the world and act responsibly to change it. -- Daniel Ellsberg
Truth and reality in art do not arise until you no longer understand what you are doing and are capable of but nevertheless sense a power that grows in proportion to your resistance. -- Henri Matisse
The realization of Truth and Reality can never be created by the mind ... it always comes as a gift of grace. Inquiry clears away misperceptions and illusions, making one available to the movements of grace. -- Adyashanti
Truth and reality in art begin at the point where the artist ceases to understand what he is doing and capable of doing - yet feels in himself a force that becomes steadily stronger... and more concentrated. -- Henri Matisse
For some, reassessing concepts about truth and reality can be a scary proposition. -- Mark Ireland
The so-called spiritual inquiry must necessarily address questions of authority and power since both individuals and the organizations that represent them generally seek legitimacy from hegemonic interpretations of truth and reality. The only way to maintain the integrity of spiritual inquiry is to encourage radical questioning of all precepts/percepts and their interpretations. -- Daniel Waterman
Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond. -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality. -- Ovid
The appalling reality in American politics today is that, when ideology and money mix, truth is a mere inconvenience. -- David Horsey
When your voice contradicts reality and truth, the only way to create space for it is to discredit reality and truth. -- John Yarmuth
Somewhere between the intellectual idea of why we're attracted to certain things and the pragmatic reality is some form of ever-evolving truth. -- Billy Corgan
The Cold War had become a battlefield marked by doublespeak. Disguise, distortion, and deception were accepted as reality. Truth was promised in a serum. -- Annie Jacobsen
Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation. -- Rabindranath Tagore
One can hardly be Indian and not know that almost every accent, which hand you eat your food with, has some deeper symbolic truth, reality. -- Anish Kapoor
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth. -- Publilius Syrus
The supernatural birth of Christ, his miracles, his resurrection and ascension, remain eternal truths, whatever doubts may be cast on their reality as historical facts. -- David Friedrich Strauss
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Only in the mystery novel are we delivered final and unquestionable solutions. The joke to me is that fiction gives you a truth that reality can't deliver. -- Scott Turow
With sculpting, nothing is cloudy or mystical. It's just about this object, and if you're trying to depict reality, and you do it well, then the outcome is the truth. -- Channing Tatum
The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. -- Carl Bernstein
As soon as I became old enough to make my dreams my reality, I became a firm believer that the subconscious and the world outside of our flesh and blood is essentially the truth. -- Melissa Auf der Maur
They should hold themselves absolutely upon the immovable foundation of truth and nature, whereby alone they can save themselves from misapprehensions and from the danger of being entirely carried away from reality into mere dreams and fictions. -- Ethan A. Hitchcock
The Holy Ghost bears witness to us of the truth and impresses upon our souls the reality of God the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ, so surely that no earthly power or authority can separate us from that knowledge. -- James E. Faust
As a reporter you tend to seek coherence from your subject or your source - it all needs to add up and make sense. In truth, in reality, there's often a great deal of murkiness and muddiness, confusion and contradiction. -- Amy Waldman
Photography does deal with 'truth' or a kind of superficial reality better than any of the other arts, but it never questions the nature of reality - it simply reproduces reality. And what good is that when the things of real value in life are invisible? -- Duane Michals
Truth is exact correspondence with reality. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth must be found in reality, not systems. -- Joseph Beuys
Reality, truth, and Jesus Christ are incredibly open-ended -- Brennan Manning
Never let reality get in the way of truth -- Pat Pattison
Reality is bad enough. Why should I tell the truth? -- Patrick Sky
Objective reality - otherwise known as the truth - matters. -- Justin Raimondo
Objective Reality and Truth requires neither ones consent nor dissent." -- R. Alan Woods
You owe reality nothing and the truth about your feelings everything. -- Richard Hugo
Whenever someone tries to deny the truth, ultimately, reality betrays him. -- Greg Koukl
You owe reality nothing and the truth about your feelings everything." -- Richard Hugo
We know nothing in reality; for truth lies in an abyss. -- Democritus
Perception is one millionth of one percent reality (truth in fact). -- R. Buckminster Fuller
That's what I mean by radical truth. I mean accepting reality. -- Ray Dalio
Art is not truth. Truth conforms to reality. Art invents reality. -- Walter Darby Bannard
Emotion did not play a part in truth, only reality did. -- Terry Goodkind
There can be no absolute reality, there can be no absolute truth. -- Kevin Warwick
Truth is that which affirms propositionally the nature of reality as it is. -- Ravi Zacharias
Truth is stranger than fiction, which is why reality TV is so popular. -- Heather Dubrow
A thriller becomes great when it carries a feeling of reality and truth. -- David Morrell
The agreement or disagreement or its sense with reality constitutes its truth or falsity. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
You will not ever perceive the truth that is reality. There are many realities. -- Paul Watson
Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality. -- Chuck Palahniuk
You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth. -- Annie Leibovitz
Every concept of reality is all in our head, belief is what makes truth. -- Christy Leigh Stewart
The truth about parenting is that the reality of our lives needs to be enough. -- Jessica Valenti
Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth. -- John Ruskin
Better to accept the wretched truth than struggle, twisting to make a wish a reality. -- Louise Penny
A bitter reality of truth can be wisely told in a sweet tale of lullaby. -- Toba Beta
I ran toward my dreams, tripped on reality, and hit my head on the truth!" -- Nathanael Richmond
Everything isn't subjective. Reality also matters. Truth matters. It is still a word with meaning. -- David Brin
If 'truth' is an 'unveiled reality,' then my truth may not be your truth yet! -- Evinda Lepins
What we search for in fiction is not so much reality, but the epiphany of truth. -- Azar Nafisi
Man keeps looking for a truth that fits his reality. Given our reality, the truth doesn't fit. -- Werner Erhard
Reality has actually very little to do with truth; there is no necessary connection between the two. -- Edith Hamilton
People often find comfort in ignorance of illusions, but rarely find solace in the truth of reality. -- Lionel Suggs
There may always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we've arrived at. -- Christopher Fry
The most important thing about my profession is finding the truth, finding the reality of these shows. -- Shuler Hensley
Indeed, the truth, the reality of the Kosovo War, was actually hidden behind all the 'humanitarian' faces. -- Paul Virilio
The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda"¦ -- Michael Crichton
Truth is the recognition of reality; reason, man's only means of knowledge, is his only standard of truth. -- Ayn Rand
Sometimes, reality is the illusion, and the truth only visible where our eyes can't see."- Lady Lalaigne" -- Jeanine Henning
...words are the gateway to reality, the means by which we engage with the objective truth beyond ourselves. -- Joseph Pearce
I'm less interested in reality. I'm more interested in perception, the truth of the universe that we see. -- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true. -- Robert Ringer
Truth will flourish in fantasy, only to wither and die in what you are pleased to call reality. -- Bernard Schubert
People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true. -- Robert Ringer
The reality of one night, let alone that of a whole lifetime, can never be the whole truth. -- Nicole Kidman
In my heart I know the truth, but my mind cannot accept the reality of what this all means. -- Loung Ung
As sick as it sounds, a reality show might help, actually. At least then people could get the truth. -- Lindsay Lohan
That is the beauty of memory, isn't it? Our reality is always clouded by our perceptions of truth. (Mnimi) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
One can be a full-fledged Christian and at the same time, enjoy the reality of a universal spiritual truth. -- Elizabeth Lesser
The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope. -- Oscar Wilde
Reality is nourishment, but people don't believe it, I guess it's hard to stomach the truth like a bulimic. -- Immortal Technique
In the underworld, reality itself has elastic properties and is capable of being stretched into different definitionsof the truth. -- Roderick Vincent
Behind every myth lies a truth; beyond every legend is reality, as radiant (sometimes as chilling) as the story itself. -- Phyllis McGinley
The truth of art lies in its power to break the monopoly of established reality to define what is real. -- Herbert Marcuse
I've always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality. -- Jean Cocteau
Your thoughts become your BELIEFS. Your beliefs become your TRUTH. Your truth becomes your STORY. Your story IS your REALITY. -- Sarah Centrella
We have a great responsibility. Whatever we make will become the truth, the visual reality that a generation will accept. -- James Cameron
All that can be said with truth of this Absolute and Supreme Reality is that IT IS. This must suffice. -- Israel Regardie
After much seeking for truth and knowledge the profoundness of reality came to me with a clarity never before known. -- Gautama Buddha
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 inevitable triumph of illusion over reality that was the single most obvious truth about the history of the human race. -- Salman Rushdie
To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is. -- Nhat Hanh
The question is, "Are you spiritual or are you not?" The truth is you are. The reality is you don't believe it -- Harbhajan Singh Yogi
To find reality you must be real in the smallest daily action; there can be no deceit in the search for truth. -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Imaginative truth is the most immediate way of presenting ultimate reality to a human being... ultimate reality is what we call God. -- R. S. Thomas
affectation is fond of making a greater show than reality. ... Nature and truth have never learned to blow the trumpet, and never will. -- Lydia M. Child
History is a combination of reality and lies. The reality of History becomes a lie. The unreality of the fable becomes the truth. -- Jean Cocteau
The incessant perpetuation of collective fantasies makes people crave the truth and nothing but the truth - reality is the fastest American commodity. -- Aleksandar Hemon
Perception is reality. If you are perceived to be something, you might as well be it because that's the truth in people's minds. -- Steve Young
Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our difficulties. -- Jack Kornfield
Success is for those who are persistent in the face of reality. The harsher the truth, the stronger they hold on to their dreams. -- Pooja Ruprell
When we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself; it is always dependent upon the reality of the immediate relationship. -- Rollo May
There may not be one Truth - there may be several truths - but saying that is not to say that reality doesn't exist. -- Margaret Atwood
Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation." -- Rabindranath Tagore
It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected. -- John Bradshaw
...[E]very person perceives the world differently. So essentially, there are six billion human versions of reality on this planet, each perceiving its own truth. -- Bruce H. Lipton
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth. -- Publilius Syrus
My shyness has been in reality my shield and buckler. It has allowed me to grow. It has helped me in my discernment of truth." -- Mahatma Gandhi
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth." -- Publilius Syrus
My shyness has been in reality my shield and buckler. It has allowed me to grow. It has helped me in my discernment of truth. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A lot of what we're doing here deals with perception rather than truth. Many would argue that reality depends more on the former than the latter. -- Carrie Vaughn
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I am telling you that your perception of ultimate reality is more limited than you thought, and that Truth is more unlimited than you can imagine. -- Neale Donald Walsch

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