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In reality, it is more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side. (Quote by - B H Liddell Hart)

Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language. (Quote by - Ludwig Wittgenstein)

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system. (Quote by - William James)

Unconscious means identified totally with thought. You reduce reality to a conceptual reality. (Quote by - Eckhart Tolle)

Reality is a sliding door. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there. (Quote by - J. G. Ballard)

You're either part of the solution or part of the problem. (Quote by - Leroy Eldridge)

We have all the different representations of humanity in the family. And, within this family, there has to be total freedom. There has to be the freedom to be yourself. (Quote by - Alice Walker)

A theory must be tempered with reality. (Quote by - Nehru)

To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, but to imagine your facts is another. (Quote by - John Burroughs)

Let us look at our own faults, and not other people's. We ought not to insist on everyone following in our footsteps, nor to take upon ourselves to give instructions in spirituality when, perhaps, we do not even know what it is. (Quote by - Saint Theresa)

To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them! (Quote by - Louis-Ferdinand C line)

Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there. (Quote by - E.H. Gombrich)

As I was sitting in my chair, I knew the bottom wasn't there, Nor legs nor back, but I just sat, Ignoring little things like that. (Quote by - Hughes Mearns)

He knows that every thought to which he gives birth ends not with himself, but affects many others as well. (Quote by - C.W. Leadbeater)

The unreal is natural, so natural that it makes of unreality the most natural of anything natural. That is what America does, and that is what America is. (Quote by - Gertrude Stein)

It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the ''fronts'' people assume before one another's eyes, and the ''front'' a writer puts on the face of reality. (Quote by - Francoise Sagan)

We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed. (Quote by - James Baldwin)

Reality bites with a variety of sizes of teeth. (Quote by - Tony Follari)

Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality. (Quote by - Earl Nightingale)

One of the most important-and most neglected-elements in the beginning of the interior life is the ability to respond to reality, to see the value and the beauty in ordinary things, to come alive to the splendour that is all around us. (Quote by - Thomas Merton)

Reality in our century is not something to be faced. (Quote by - Graham Greene)

Faith is a fine invention When gentlemen can see, But microscopes are prudent In an emergency. (Quote by - Emily Dickinson)

The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass. (Quote by - Herman Melville)

The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye. (Quote by - Shana Alexander)

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